Dave Shaw

Aug 21, 2014

Spotlighting Local Seafood with Barry Nash

Barry Nash is a seafood technology and marketing specialist based in Morehead City. He maintains an economic development program for the North Carolina seafood industry that addresses product commercialization, manufacturing,…

Aug 21, 2014

Understand Coastal Ecosystems with Gloria Putnam

Learn what Gloria Putnam, North Carolina Sea Grant's coastal resources and communities specialist, does and the topics she plans to blog about.

Aug 20, 2014

Introduction: Rhett Register

Rhett Register gets to write about all things water here in North Carolina.

Aug 19, 2014

Explore NC’s Coastal Weather and Climate with Jess Whitehead

My first experience communicating about coastal hazards to the public was as a child in 1989, relaying reports from the Weather Channel over the phone to my neighborhood friends in Charleston, SC who remained home during Hurricane Hugo but lost power.

Aug 18, 2014

NC Sea Grant, Bringing it to the People

Susan White, blogger newbie. Old dog, new tricks. Is it possible? I suppose we’ll find out here. As someone who held on with a tight grip to her flip phone until…

Jul 25, 2014

Rip Currents: Data and Deployments

Rebecca Nagy explains how data-logging drifters monitor rip currents — and shares footage that UNCW graduate student Cobi Christiansen shot while getting these loggers into the water.

Apr 29, 2014

Tar Heel Blue Crabs: Still the State’s Most Valuable Seafood

What happens to blue crabs when they are landed by North Carolina crabbers? Where are they processed? Where do they go? Jerry Allegood traces the flow of this crustacean — hard, soft and picked.