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Summer 2016

Summer 2016

COASTAL COLLABORATIONS: Researchers Reach Into Communities

Four community-based collaborations are growing, thanks to a new partnership between North Carolina Sea Grant and the William R. Kenan Jr. Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science at NC State University.

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image: Flooding Aftermath in New York.

FROM THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR: Moving Spaces

The one constant in life is change. While people often view change with trepidation, it also brings great opportunity.
sea turtle

How Sea Turtles Respond to Interactions with Fishermen

When hooked or tangled in fishing gear, sea turtles struggle to free themselves and make it to the surface to breathe. In the absence of oxygen, lactate, a form of lactic acid, builds up in their muscles, a similar process in humans that we equate with “feeling the burn.”
Tyrrell County

CURRENTS: Ride the Currents

Get a taste for the latest happenings with North Carolina Sea Grant staff, researchers and partners from our blog, Coastwatch Currents. If you visited ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/currents in between issues of Coastwatch,…
image: a group of people tour a stormwater facility with an official.

SEA SCIENCE: WATER EVERYWHERE: Charting the Message on Water Resilience

Every time you get water out of a drinking fountain or faucet, you are encountering a small miracle. For most Americans, drinking water is safe and readily accessible with the turn of a faucet handle. People in Flint, Michigan, have learned brutal lessons about what happens when the water system breaks down. More than a billion people around the globe don't have access to clean and safe drinking water.
White and green flowers

AMAZING COAST: Flora of the Coastal Plain

Visitors to North Carolina’s coast snap photos of blue herons or white ibises as they stand in grassy marsh pond shallows. Families join nighttime vigils to watch loggerhead sea turtles hatch in the soft dunes and toddle across the sand to the ocean. Others take daytime cruises along inlets to look for the swell of a dolphin fin.
crab salad

MARINER’S MENU: All Flavor, No Sweat

As summer heats up, you probably plan to spend as little time as possible in a hot kitchen — instead enjoying as many hours as you can on the beach.…

Fantastic 40 for NC Sea Grant

For North Carolina Sea Grant, July 1976 holds meaning beyond memories of the United States’ bicentennial. That month, nearly a decade of our early research, outreach and education efforts earned…