Dave Shaw

Sep 17, 2024

Hurricane Hazel 

Author Bland Simpson offers a boyhood recollection of Hurricane Hazel 70 years after the storm struck North Carolina.

Aug 21, 2024

Mariner’s Menu

Recipes for Butter Shrimp, Southern Crab Cakes, Grilled Tuna with Lime Butter, and Sautéed Flounder Amandine.

Jul 22, 2024

Hurricane Season Is Here

New guidance from NOAA advises people not to focus on a specific storm category. A storm’s “scale” only reflects the strongest winds near the center of the storm — not potentially life-threatening flooding from storm…

Jul 2, 2024

The NC Coastal Conference Returns to the Coast

The North Carolina Coastal Conference returns to the coast on November 13 and 14 at the Riverfront Convention Center in New Bern.

Jul 1, 2024

Ancient Oyster Fisheries

Globally, oyster populations have been declining. Oyster management strategies often rely on knowledge and data from the past two centuries — a period during which many oyster fisheries collapsed due to overharvest, habitat loss, and other causes. 

Jun 30, 2024

Soul of the Soil

As the waters of the Cape Fear River Basin weave through the North Carolina Piedmont down into the Coastal Plains, they pass power plants, hog and poultry farms, paper mills, landfills, textile mills, agricultural farms, and more. These facilities mark the Cape Fear River, which provides drinking water for 500,000 residents and is the most industrialized in the state.

Jun 29, 2024

NC’s True Ghost Story

North Carolina hosts a variety of ghost stories, from Blackbeard’s spirit searching for his severed head along the Outer Banks to UNC-Chapel Hill’s Horace Williams returning to campus from beyond the grave to haunt Caldwell Hall. Although the veracity of these accounts is dubious, there is more than enough evidence to support one particular North Carolina ghost story: the eerie remains of once-flourishing forests along the Atlantic Coast.

Jun 29, 2024

Mariner’s Menu

Mariner’s Menu, North Carolina Sea Grant’s popular online seafood guide, features blogger and photographer Vanda Lewis’s pictures with hundreds of recipes that Joyce Taylor developed. Now, you can see what…

Jun 28, 2024

Letter from Susan White, Executive Director

Summer temperatures are upon us, and the tiptoe racing across hot sand and into the ocean is this season’s NC Olympic competition. We have some great resources to help you and your family and friends’ balancing act for indoor and outdoor activities.

Jun 24, 2024

Climate Change, Summertime, and Your Health

Global warming impacts human health. Share these resources and help spread awareness.