Navigating Currents: Coastal Topics, Soundscapes and Light

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Contact:
E-Ching Lee, 919-515-9098, eching_lee@ncsu.edu

Posted Thursday, April 9, 2015

In a recent post on Coastwatch Currents, North Carolina Sea Grant’s blog, Executive Director Susan White focuses on North Carolina’s Coastal Conference, set for April 14 in Raleigh.

“Opportunity and potential: That’s what excites me about this conference. The day will provide the time and space for those representing diverse coastal interests to meet and discuss opportunities, challenges and potentially build collaborations — and it hasn’t happened quite like this before. It’s a first for the UNC System, and a first for me,” White writes.

White invites readers to join her at this event. Go to ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/nc-coastal-conference for more information and to register.

Also, Currents features a post, titled “Sound of the Sounds,” from guest blogger Shannon Brown, who was a joint Sea Grant/N.C. Coastal Reserve fellow in 2014. This North Carolina State University graduate student researches soundscapes — the collection of biological, physical and human-produced sounds — in the estuarine environment. Brown shares some recordings she gathered from Rachel Carson Reserve.

“The overall goal of my research is to provide a baseline soundscape characterization for the diverse collection of estuarine habitats in Rachel Carson Reserve,” she explains. Such data could be vital to managing habitats, Brown notes.

In another entry, Hannah Aichelman, Sarah Davies and Matt Kanke share images from an event at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences. These University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers offered a hands-on lesson on fluorescence and bioluminescence.

This session is a result of their participation in the Researcher Educator Exchange Forum, a professional development workshop that trains scientists to communicate their research to general audiences. The forum is sponsored by the Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence SouthEast, a program funded by the National Science Foundation and includes Sea Grant. Stay tuned for similar posts from other researchers.

Currents also includes sneak peeks at upcoming Coastwatch issues. Find other interesting stories from Sea Grant staff and guest bloggers at ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/currents.

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