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Fall 2006
Aerial views of Hurricane Katrina damage.

Fall 2006

STORM SURGE: Lessons from Katrina

Weeks after Hurricane Katrina, miles and miles of remains from homes and buildings were scattered along Mississippi's Gulf Coast. "The debris field was so heavy behind the beach road that it diminished the waves," says Spencer Rogers, who conducted a survey on flood damage.

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Sunken fishing boat after Hurricane Katrina

SEA GRANT PROGRAMS HELP STORM VICTIMS

Becker is just one of many charter boat captains, commercial fishers, seafood dealers and other constituents who were helped by Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant and Louisiana Sea Grant.
Voiland

GIVING HIS ALL: Voiland Shifts Focus to North Carolina

Voiland's learning adventures now are focused on North Carolina's coastal waters — and communities that depend on those waters. On July 1, he became North Carolina Sea Grant's new executive director.
image: aerial view of marsh and seashore.

VOILAND TO LEAD WATERFRONT STUDY PANEL

Recommended by the joint Legislative Commission on Seafood and Aquaculture, the new committee will "study the degree of loss and potential loss of diversity of uses along the coastal shoreline of North Carolina and how these losses impact access to the public trust waters of the state." Other committee members will be:
Image: NC Coast aerial view

STUDYING NORTH CAROLINA’S COAST

As the long, lazy days of summer come to a close for most of us, many North Carolina Sea Grant researchers are already busy with cutting edge research — recently, Sea Grant awarded more than $630,000 in competitive grants as part of its two-year funding cycle. The projects receiving funding address key issues identified in Sea Grant's strategic plan.