Coastwatch Publishes the Winter 2025 Issue
Post-Helene Response, Teachers on Frying Pan Tower, a New Threat to Oysters, and More
For immediate release
The Winter 2025 issue of North Carolina Sea Grant’s award-winning Coastwatch magazine covers a new threat to the oyster industry, an innovative project that took teachers out to Frying Pan Tower, how volunteers helped responders find survivors after Hurricane Helene, and more.
Thousands hoped for any word of family and friends after Hurricane Helene. Accounting for the Unaccounted takes an inside look at how volunteer operators for a Community Emergency Response Team updated a database that provided responders with GPS coordinates to check as they searched mountains, valleys, and riversides.
What better way to give educators more tools to teach about the ocean than to take them out into the Graveyard of the Atlantic? The Teachers on the Tower video tells the story of how North Carolina Sea Grant’s novel new project reenergized educators.
A Booming Industry — And a New Threat explores the “mass mortality events” that North Carolina oyster farmers are facing, and how a cutting-edge Sea Grant project is addressing it.
Satellite imagery may help protect coastal forests from climate change, thanks to a former North Carolina Sea Grant-Space Grant Fellow’s pioneering new method. Early Warnings tells how her approach will provide vital information for cost-effective conservation planning.
The North Carolina Coastal Conference brought together over 330 coastal enthusiasts, and A Look Back at the Biggest NC Sea Grant Gathering to Date recaps the event with photos, video, resources, and more.
Engineered solutions can help to maintain coastal resilience and protect local economies. Research in New Bern from a Sea Grant-funded graduate student provides important new findings about Managing Coastal Nitrogen Pollution.
The Guide to Coastal Living reminds us Spring is right around the corner — and eco-friendly native plants can help to create healthy, beautiful coastal landscapes.
Environmental Sentinels introduces a new North Carolina Sea Grant project designed to provide context for findings and dispel misinformation about microplastics and metals in oysters.
Vital Signs covers marked sea level rise projections for North Carolina by 2050 from the NC Coastal Resources Commission Science Panel’s latest report.
Mind the Gap summarizes findings from the UN’s new Emissions Gap Report, which concluded that keep global warming could make heightened climate impacts unstoppable.
Hook, Line & Science has the latest research and news for anglers, including why we fish where we do, as well as whether anglers are actually in competition with river otters.
North Carolina’s voice of the coast, Bland Simpson, recounts “A Fisherman Challenged at Rich Inlet” in his Public Trust. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t just any fisher.
And, as always, Mariner’s Menu offers up some seasonal favorites from North Carolina Sea Grant’s popular online seafood guide. Enjoy sautéed tuna steaks with tarragon, baked clams with garlic butter, and oyster fritters.
The Winter 2025 issue is available online only. Coastwatch will return in print with the Spring 2025 issue in April.
All issues are available at ncCoastwatch.org.
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Much of the content in Coastwatch is available to republish at no cost. Email dmshaw@ncsu.edu.
