Writing About Science

January 29, 2015 | Rebecca Nagy

Read an excerpt from Terri Kirby Hathaway's guest blog for the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher’s Sea Turtle Exploration website....

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Lights, Camera, Tidal Creeks

November 12, 2014 | Rebecca Nagy

In late October, Gloria Putnam, coastal resources and communities specialist at North Carolina Sea Grant, spent a day in Wilmington with Frank Graff of UNC-TV. They taped a story for NC Science Now featuring the important...

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Picture This: Developing Storm Surge Visualization

October 29, 2014 | Rebecca Nagy

Rosemary Cyriac discusses a North Carolina Sea Grant-funded research project to improve hurricane and storm surge guidance to emergency managers of the coastal counties in the state, particularly in visualizing geographic data. ...

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North Carolina’s Stake in Shaping Energy Policy

October 27, 2014 | Rebecca Nagy

What will fuel the global demand for energy in the future: oil, gas, coal, nuclear, biomass, solar, wind? Pam Smith goes looking for the answer at a Coastal Energy Summit in Wilmington....

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Rip Currents: Data and Deployments

July 25, 2014 | Rebecca Nagy

Rebecca Nagy explains how data-logging drifters monitor rip currents — and shares footage that UNCW graduate student Cobi Christiansen shot while getting these loggers into the water....

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