{"id":10508,"date":"2018-09-01T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/?page_id=10508"},"modified":"2024-08-15T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T18:51:56","slug":"welcome-to-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/welcome-to-the-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
North Carolina\u2019s coast is a very sharky place. The fact that important shark habitat includes the state\u2019s estuaries often surprises locals and visitors alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve spent a lot of time with sharks in these waters. During graduate school at East Carolina University, I worked with the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries, or DMF, using their extensive fishery-independent survey data to study shark habitat within Pamlico Sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That work inspired a shark survey in Core and Back sounds that I conducted as a grad student, with support from a North Carolina Sea Grant minigrant. Now, as a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, or SERC, I\u2019ve been surveying sharks in the lower Cape Fear River, with funding from North Carolina Aquariums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n