{"id":21802,"date":"2014-08-20T13:33:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T17:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:54:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T19:54:21","slug":"introduction-rhett-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/introduction-rhett-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction: Rhett Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1830\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1830 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/RRegister2-copy-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Rhett Register in storm sewer.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stormwater is a perennial topic so I jumped at the recent chance to tour a local municipality&#8217;s storm sewer system. Unfortunately, no turtles (mutant ninja or otherwise), C.H.U.D.s, or gigantic alligators to report.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am a science writer and editor with NC Sea Grant and the <a title=\"Water Resources Research Institute of the UNC System\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsu.edu\/wrri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NC Water Resources Research Institute<\/a>. My job lets me learn and write about salt and fresh water issues here in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>A day might find me <a title=\"Of Salt and Sand; an article in Coastwatch magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/previous-issues\/2013-2\/autumn-2013\/of-salt-and-sand-sea-grants-history-with-the-queen-annes-revenge-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watching cannons being pulled from sunken pirate ships<\/a>, dining on <a title=\"Hunting Lions; article in Coastwatch magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/previous-issues\/2013-2\/autumn-2013\/local-catch-hunting-lions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">invasive lionfish,<\/a> tracking water resources policy at <a title=\"WRRI News newsletter with article on EMC\" href=\"http:\/\/repository.lib.ncsu.edu\/dr\/bitstream\/1840.4\/8294\/1\/WRRINews385.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Environmental Management Commission meetings<\/a>, or <a title=\"A Little Slice of Hyde County; article in Coastwatch magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/previous-issues\/2014-2\/winter-2014\/hyde-county-wetlands-restoration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donning snake chaps in Hyde County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am really excited about this blog and hope to use it as another way to share some of my experiences as I dive in (yes!) to North Carolina water policy and research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhett Register gets to write about all things water here in North Carolina. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"class_list":["post-21802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-currents"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - 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