Looking Back: Coastwatch 1985

October 21, 2015 | Rebecca Nagy

Thirty years ago this month, the October 1985 issus of Coastwatch included a story about Lundie Spence, former North Carolina Sea Grant marine education specialist. To commemorate #BackToTheFuture day, we catch up with her today to find out what she is doing now....

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Framing Policy in the Arctic: Views of Changing Ecosystems — Part 2

October 9, 2015 |

Meagan Dunphy-Daly, Knauss fellow, continues her travels to Norway to attend a meeting of the working groups of the Arctic Council....

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Framing Policy in the Arctic: Views of Changing Ecosystems — Part 1

October 7, 2015 |

Knauss fellow Meagan Dunphy-Daly recalls her recent visit to Alaska where she attended the conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic, visited a retreating glacier and saved a pair of belugas....

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Studying Oysters in an Estuarine Environment

October 6, 2015 | Rebecca Nagy

Brady Blackburn is one of 10 undergraduate students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying at an environmental science field site in Manteo, N.C., this fall. He discusses the group's research project: examining the effects of oyster aquaculture on the surrounding environment....

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Cockroach Races and More:A Visit to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences at Whiteville

June 5, 2015 |

Janna Sasser, a North Carolina Sea Grant communications intern, visits a childhood haunt in Whiteville — and finds that a lot of things have changed since she was last there....

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