Dave Shaw

Sep 20, 2021

Sea Science: The Ever-Expanding Brains of Atlantic Sharpnose Sharks

This shark’s brain never stops growing throughout its entire life, especially the regions responsible for motor control and sense of smell.

Sep 20, 2021

Coastwatch Classroom: The Watershed Wisdom Lesson Plan

As the pandemic continues to affect K-12 learning models, several thousand North Carolina teachers, students, and others already have accessed the free Watershed Wisdom online lesson plan.

Sep 20, 2021

Currents: Invasion on the Mudflats

New research reveals the impact of the invasive seaweed Gracilaria on hard clams and other intertidal bottom-dwellers.

Sep 20, 2021

From the Executive Director: A Season of Variety and Opportunity

The start of a new school year brings excitement and adjustments. September marks the end of summer vacations, even if many people this year remained at home or nearby as the pandemic continues.

Sep 20, 2021

New Links in the Sea-to-Table Chain: The North Carolina Local Food Council Responds in the Pandemic’s Darkest Hour

The loss of restaurant and other food service markets shook the commercial fishing industry to its core in the first half of 2020.

Sep 20, 2021

This Wet and Water Loving Land

Bland Simpson, North Carolina's oft-honored voice of our state’s coast, has written a new tribute to our state, titled North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky. We’re delighted to provide these short excerpts that capture just a few of his book’s many flavors -- a blend of personal and collective history as only he can tell it.

Sep 16, 2021

Are Warming Seas Affecting How Blue Crabs Escape Predators?

A team at UNC Wilmington is conducting field surveys through 2022 in Topsail Sound and Chadwick’s Bay to assess the relative abundance of juvenile blue crabs.

Sep 16, 2021

Digging Up a Stormy Past

Sediment samples hundreds of years old reveal how hurricanes and nor’easters affect the landward migration of salt marshes.

Sep 16, 2021

Model Behavior

Drawing on lifeguard expertise and artificial intelligence, researchers are improving rip current forecasting for beachgoers nationwide.

Jul 22, 2021

Sea Grant/Space Grant Fellow Wins Lightning Talk Award

Shannon Ricci, the 2020-21 North Carolina Sea Grant/North Carolina Space Grant research fellow, recently won second place for her student lightning talk "Assessment of Visitation Trends at North Carolina Artificial Reefs Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery" at the 2021 University Consortium Geographic Information Science Symposium.