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ON THE WATER: Crab Pots Collected from Coastal Waters
By KATIE MOSHER More than 4,300 lost or abandoned crab pots were removed from 1.2 million acres of state waters earlier this year. The North Carolina General Assembly selected North Carolina Sea Grant to administer…
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LINKING WATER, FLOODS AND PUBLIC HEALTH
By JESSICA WHITEHEAD In October 2016, Hurricane Matthew reminded North Carolinians how extreme rain events can overwhelm our communities’ infrastructure. In Lumberton, city residents were without public drinking water for almost nine days when a…
Preserving Cultural Treasures
By MICHELE WALKER Cleaning and restoring historic documents and artifacts aren’t the first things you may think of in post-disaster emergency response. But to the staff at the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources,…
CURRENTS: Identifying Innovative Recovery Strategies
Emergency Managers Partner with University Experts, Students By KATIE MOSHER For many residents of central and eastern North Carolina, Hurricane Matthew in October 2016 was at least a double whammy. Some were in the midst…
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Looking Forward To Spring: Research, Results and Renewal
By SUSAN N. WHITE Every winter, right around the first week of February, I start getting itchy feet. I need to get back outside, shake off the chill (well, we are in North Carolina after…
Winter 2017
Table of Contents FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Looking Forward to Spring: Research, Results and Renewal Susan White, North Carolina Sea Grant executive director, looks ahead to events in spring, including North Carolina’s Coastal Conference. A…
MATTHEW’S LEGACY: WATER FALLING AND RISING
By JANNA SASSER and KATIE MOSHER In North Carolina, Hurricane Matthew’s fury was the water, not the wind. After leaving a thousand dead in Haiti, then moving up the South Atlantic coast, the storm’s outer…
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Linking Education to Understanding and Action
By SUSAN N. WHITE North Carolina’s coast and its inhabitants are a resilient lot. These days, and in the months ahead, many inland and coastal communities will be busy recovering from the impacts of Hurricane…
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Holiday 2016
Table of Contents From the Executive Director: Linking Education to Understanding and Action Susan White highlights how North Carolina Sea Grant is working to get individuals the right information at the right moment to support…