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Ferrymon Connects Students To Water Quality

Spring 2008

Jun 9, 2014

Coastal Ocean Observing: Real-Time Data Available To Students

Based at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, CORMP provides oceanographic data in near-real time and information on weather conditions, as well as living marine resources. Data from buoys also provide valuable tools for the National Weather Service in making rip current forecasts.
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.