The program title — Aquatic Invaders — begins to draw a Saturday afternoon crowd. The added lure of “audience participation” fills many seats in the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort…
As Jennifer Dziedzic leads volunteers along the banks of the Rocky Branch stream at North Carolina State University, it doesn’t take long for her trash bag to fill up. With…
A 30-year teaching veteran, she always looks for new ways to keep herself and her students motivated to learn. In 2006, with the help of John McCord of the University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute (CSI), she started an oyster hatchery program with her middle school students at Cape Hatteras Secondary School of Coastal Studies. For the 2007-2008 school year, Shisler and McCord enlisted Turano's help to add black sea bass and flounder for a tag-and-release program.