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Naturalist’s Notebook: Hurricanes, People, and Piping Plovers

2023

image: Coastal brown bear sows and their cubs graze the salt marsh in Chinitna Bay, Alaska.

Jun 2, 2023

Vital Signs: Most of World’s Salt Marshes Likely Will Be Underwater by 2100

Sea Grant is among the funders on a 50-year study of salt marsh ecology that has concluded that more than 90% of the world's salt marshes could succumb to sea level rise by the end of the century.
image: The view from Hatteras Lighthouse with the sky and landscape in background to show the stretch off Hatteras.

Jun 2, 2023

Out at Hatteras: With Cap’n Ernie Foster and Albatross I

A day’s journey on the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” loosens stories of lost ships — while aboard an 85-year-old vessel the U.S. Navy once tried to keep from its owner.

Jun 2, 2023

Hook, Line & Science

Sonar imaging revealed when different-sized fish visit oyster reefs. 
image: Okracoke Island is shown with a mounted sign that reads: "Stop. No one allowed beyond this point."

Jun 2, 2023

From Portsmouth to Aurora

As impacts from climate change heighten, our state finds new strategies for new challenges.
image: J. Drew Lanham.

May 25, 2023

The Art of Being You: Ecology, Psychology, and the Art of Being You

Growing up on a family farm in Edgefield, South Carolina, Joseph Drew Lanham, “Drew,” to many, knew he wanted to be an ornithologist by the third grade. As a Black naturalist, writer, and MacArthur Fellow, Lanham chooses to combine science with blunt realities...
image: architectural design, Duffyfield neighborhood street view.

Apr 5, 2023

Resilience and Redevelopment in Duffyfield

After Hurricane Florence flooded an African American neighborhood with a long history of strength after adversity, a team of community leaders, researchers, and students has been working to restore housing and preserve community history.
image: researchers at work on a partially submerged shipwreck.

Apr 3, 2023

The Mystery Ship Off Pappy Lane

Weeks of diving and mapping revealed a ship that had found its way from the turbulence of the Pacific Ocean to its final resting place at the bottom of the shallow, murky Pamlico Sound.
image: the Ricky Moore video shoot.

Mar 29, 2023

Mariner’s Menu: Lights, Camera, Crab Cakes

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. And now you can watch an expert prepare two Mariner’s Menu classics – as well as a brand new recipe.
NASA Image

Mar 28, 2023

Coastal Currents

North Carolina Space Grant is offering two opportunities to discover distant worlds — and much more — on one big weekend. On April 21, the NC Space Symposium will feature NASA experts and student research in Raleigh. That night and the next, the Statewide Star Party will take place.

Mar 28, 2023

Naturalist’s Notebook: Hurricanes, People, and Piping Plovers

A new study looked at the long-term mating habits of piping plovers before and after protective measures went into effect.