Skip to main content
The North Carolina King Tides Project Wants Your Help

Currents

Dec 1, 2021

New “Tangled in Trash” App Relies on Grassroots Reporting

The first reporting tool designed to document when and where marine debris harms animals in the Carolinas and Georgia is now available. The “Tangled in Trash” app relies on information from anyone who finds wildlife entangled or injured in marine debris and trash.

Nov 29, 2021

Breaking Systemic Barriers: Being Black in the Aquatic Sciences and Related Fields

North Carolina Sea Grant celebrates Black in Marine Science Week with Lauren D. Pharr’s seminal story from the award-winning Spring 2021 issue of Coastwatch magazine.

Nov 24, 2021

Digging Up a Stormy Past

"We decided to look back in time to see how past storms have affected salt marsh movement along coastal North Carolina."

Nov 23, 2021

The Watershed Wisdom Lesson Plan

Watershed Wisdom is a blended lesson that combines interactive components with hands-on projects.

Nov 19, 2021

Walnut Creek Wetland Community Partnership Supports Southeast Raleigh Communities

The Walnut Creek Wetland Community Partnership was born out of the desire of community members and organizations to address environmental concerns for a critical stream in Southeast Raleigh.

Nov 18, 2021

Invasion on the Mudflats

Gracilaria strongly and positively affects the overall abundance and diversity of the benthic community.

Nov 16, 2021

Charlotte Neighborhoods Recognize Their Waters and Their Voices

Community groups in several Charlotte neighborhoods have joined Johnson C. Smith University’s Bryan Patterson to tackle long-term stormwater issues.

Sep 16, 2021

Are Warming Seas Affecting How Blue Crabs Escape Predators?

A team at UNC Wilmington is conducting field surveys through 2022 in Topsail Sound and Chadwick’s Bay to assess the relative abundance of juvenile blue crabs.

Jul 22, 2021

Sea Grant/Space Grant Fellow Wins Lightning Talk Award

Shannon Ricci, the 2020-21 North Carolina Sea Grant/North Carolina Space Grant research fellow, recently won second place for her student lightning talk "Assessment of Visitation Trends at North Carolina Artificial Reefs Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery" at the 2021 University Consortium Geographic Information Science Symposium.

Jul 21, 2021

The North Carolina King Tides Project Wants Your Help

The King Tides Project is an international initiative to document extreme high tide events using photos.