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CURRENTS: A Cohesive Strategy: The North Carolina Watershed Stewardship Network

2016

Satellite view of Hurricane Florence near Wrightsville Beach

Dec 1, 2016

LAST LOOK: Nor’easter: Storm with No Name

  Cynthia Sharpe is a 2015 graduate of North Carolina State University with a degree in English. A former communications intern with North Carolina Sea Grant, she continues her focus…

Dec 1, 2016

Plying Waterways with Words, Images

Long, sensuous Southern sentences flow and swirl like waters around old cypress stumps, bringing strong yet gentle images of the rivers entering broad sounds. These same sentences reveal the years of friendships and kinships that Bland and Ann Cary Simpson have with Eastern North Carolina.
Stacy Zhang

Dec 1, 2016

PEOPLE AND PLACES: Eight New Fellows and One New Partnership

Recently, eight students began critical research on topics affecting the state’s coast and communities. The tally includes a new joint fellowship inaugurated this year with North Carolina Space Grant.
bag of spat

Dec 1, 2016

SEA SCIENCE: Growing Oysters at Home in Coastal North Carolina

Gagnon and his wife Korin moved to Emerald Isle from Raleigh. They began by harvesting their own oysters from the wild or buying them from local sources. On a suggestion from Jim Swartzenberg, a former commercial shellfish grower, the couple started growing the bivalves themselves.
bluefish on ice

Dec 1, 2016

NATURALIST’S NOTEBOOK: Running with the Blues

For more than 60 years, the Hatteras Village Fish Fry has been a community tradition at the Hatteras Village Fire Station on Summer Saturdays. Bluefish, also known as blues, often are the catch of the day. Make that the fresh catch with an island flair.
devastation wrought Hurricane Fran

Sep 21, 2016

HURRICANE FRAN REVISITED: Lessons From a Benchmark Storm

The summer of 1996. It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years. Atlanta was prepping for the summer Olympics, DVDs were the new technology from Japan, and two new websites called eBay and Amazon were about to forever change the way we shop. But for me, it was hurricanes Bertha and Fran that made the summer of ’96 so memorable.
Story of NC Oysters

Sep 21, 2016

PEOPLE AND PLACES: Story Map Reveals Oyster Treasures

Holder liked the oyster idea, and with funding from Sea Grant, the pair set off on a quest to crack open the secret life of oysters.
image: Susan White.

Sep 15, 2016

FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: NC Sea Grant’s Resilience Efforts Meet Varied Needs

Earlier this year, resilience was one of the monthly themes as the National Sea Grant College Program celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016. The national and state programs highlighted efforts to build resilience among coastal communities nationwide.

Sep 1, 2016

NATURALIST’S NOTEBOOK: The Quiet Decline of the Humble Eel

Standing at the end of a dock on the Neuse River, a young John Fear would cast, wait for a bite, and soon feel the thrilling tug at the end of the line.
image: boardwalk through a marsh with standing water.

Sep 1, 2016

CURRENTS: A Cohesive Strategy: The North Carolina Watershed Stewardship Network

This particular patch of earth, also known as the Black Creek watershed, once was home for Christy Perrin, the sustainable water and communities coordinator for North Carolina Sea Grant and the Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina system. Like Perrin, we all live in a watershed: an area of land that drains all rainwater or snow to one location, such as a river or lake.