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Recent Awards

Coastwatch has a long tradition of honors, which most recently has included these awards.

2024

image: Spring 2024 cover.

Science Communicators of North Carolina Award for Journalism for “Ice to Ocean: From the Sources of Sea Level Rise to the Coast of North Carolina” (3rd place)

2023

Winner, 2023 National APEX Award for Publication Excellence for “From Hurricane Hazel to the Morning Light: Coastal Carolina through a Shrimper’s Eyes,” Melody Hunter-Pillion’s interview with Harry Bryant.

Winner, 2023 Science Communicators of North Carolina SciComm Award (Journalism) for “The Mystery Ship Off Pappy Lane” by India Mackinson.

Summer 2022 cover of Coastwatch Magazine: image of the Morning Light.

3rd place, 2023 Science Communicators of North Carolina SciComm Award (Journalism) for “An Angler-Inspired Approach: How Descending Devices Can Save North Carolina’s Reef Fish” by Dan DiNicola.

2022

Co-winner, 2022 Science Communicators of North Carolina SciComm Award (Journalism) for Model Behavior by Julie Leibach 

Co-winner, 2022 Science Communicators of North Carolina SciComm Award (Journalism) for Magic at 64.4 Degrees: Science, Serendipity, and Farmed Striped Bass by Dave Shaw 

3rd place, 2022 Science Communicators of North Carolina SciComm Award (Journalism) for Wings of Change by Lauren D. Pharr

image: cover of the 2021 Spring Issue, researcher holds a striped bass

Winner, 2022 APEX Grand Award for Publication Excellence for Hook, Line & Science, an online series and a regular feature of every issue

2021

Winner, 2021 Best Print Publication from the NC Association of Government Information Officers (NCAGIO) for the Spring 2021 issue

Runner-up, 2021 Best Print Publication (NCAGIO) for the Summer 2021 issue

Winner, 2021 APEX Award for Publication Excellence for the Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter 2020 issues

Winner, 2021 Best Feature (NCAGIO) for Plan, Respond, Recover, Adapt by Sarah Spiegler

Runner-up, 2021 Best Feature (NCAGIO) for The Butterfly Effect by Julie Leibach

Runner-up, 2021 Science Communicators of North Carolina SciComm Award (Journalism) for Blood Draw at the Horseshoe Corral by Julie Leibach

3rd place, 2021 Science Communicators of North Carolina SciComm Award (Journalism) for The Greatest Show on the East Coast by Dave Shaw

2020

Winner, 2020 APEX Award for Publication Excellence for the Autumn 2019 issue

2020 National Sea Grant Honors for Excellence in Communication

Winner, 2020 Best Print Publication (NCAGIO) for the Spring 2020 issue

Winner, 2020 Best Feature (NCAGIO) for Blood Draw at the Horseshoe Corral by Julie Leibach

Runner-up, 2020 Best Feature (NCAGIO) for The Road to Resilience by Julie Leibach

2019

Winner, 2019 Best Print Publication (NCAGIO) for the Autumn 2019 issue

Winner, 2019 Best Feature (NCAGIO) for Testing the Waters by Julie Leibach

Runner-up, 2019 Best Feature (NCAGIO) for Land vs. Sea by Sarah Spiegler

2018

Winner, 2018 Best Feature (NCAGIO) for The Long View by Julie Leibach

Runner-up, 2018 Best Print Publication (NCAGIO) for the Summer 2018 issue