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Ferrymon Connects Students To Water Quality

2008

People in a marsh collect samples.

May 1, 2008

Barrier Island Buffers: Bald Head Forest Anchors the Island

When a storm hits Bald Head Woods, the maritime forest acts as a buffer. The canopy has the same aerodynamics as an airplane, explains Hope Sutton, stewardship coordinator and southern sites manager for the N.C. Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve.
broiled hybrid striped bass

Mar 1, 2008

SEA SCIENCE: Research Examines Impacts And Options For Fish Farming

But with celebrity comes scrutiny. The farms are under the public microscope for the wastewater, or effluent, they discharge from their earthen fish ponds into estuarine creeks that empty into the Pamlico Sound.
Storm Runoff

Mar 1, 2008

Back To The Future: Revisiting Cisterns And Rain Gardens

Although North Carolina cities are not under armed siege, our waters face threats from rising coastal populations and aquifer mining, periodic drought, and contaminated stormwater runoff.
ferry

Mar 1, 2008

Ferrymon Connects Students To Water Quality

This spring, Davis will take her eighth-grade students at Beaufort Middle School aboard one of three North Carolina ferries that collect water quality data.