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Many details about blue crab migration mystify researchers, crabbers and fishery managers. Robin Wienke introduces four commercial crabbers collecting clues about how mature females move.<\/p>\n
Smooth cordgrass is essential to healthy salt marshes. One marina owner is researching a backyard approach to growing the grass for restoration projects \u2014 on floating coconut-fiber “biologs.”<\/p>\n
Fishing is a traditional pastime along our coast, with some of the best spots accessible only by kayak. Kathleen Angione explores the growing and cost-effective sport of paddle fishing.<\/p>\n
Soon, volunteers will spread out across North Carolina and America to take part in a century-old census to monitor avian species status and distribution. Pam Smith visits with Audubon members in the Cape Fear region.<\/p>\n
Since the devastating floods of Hurricane Floyd in 1999, scientists have designed models that consider both inland and coastal observations. Check out their progress.<\/p>\n
Sea Grant’s Spencer Rogers is helping develop and test a wave gauge to measure high-water levels during storm events \u2014 a technology that could keep people and structures out of harm’s way.<\/p>\n
Coastal storms bring many changes to coastal biology, geology and communities. When a storm strikes, ongoing Sea Grant research can highlight and\/or measure social and ecological responses.<\/p>\n
Three young artists from North Carolina will have their artwork on display at the Smithsonian Institution’s new Sant Ocean Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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