{"id":120,"date":"2014-05-07T16:42:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T20:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nccoastallaw\/?page_id=120"},"modified":"2020-10-06T11:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:50:23","slug":"state-regional","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nccoastallaw\/resources\/state-regional\/","title":{"rendered":"State & Regional Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"
Coastal Studies Institute<\/a> East Carolina University Coastal Resources Management Program<\/a> Duke University Marine Lab<\/a> Duke University Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions<\/a> North Carolina Coastal Federation<\/a> North Carolina Coastal Land Trust<\/a> North Carolina State Bar<\/a> UNC-Chapel Hill’s Institute for the Environment<\/a> UNC-Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Sciences<\/a> UNC Environmental Finance Center<\/a> UNC School of Government<\/a> UNC-Wilmington’s Center for Marine Science<\/a> Virginia Institute of Marine Science<\/a>
\nAn interuniversity research institute that undertakes research, offers educational opportunities, provides community outreach programs, and enhances communication among those concerned with the unique history, culture and environment of the maritime counties of North Carolina.<\/p>\n
\nProvides a unique, integrated and multidisciplinary approach to coastal studies that emphasizes science and public policy.<\/p>\n
\nPromotes education and research in the basic ocean processes, coastal environmental management, marine biotechnology and marine biomedicine.<\/p>\n
\nThe institute helps decision makers create timely, effective,and economically practical solutions to critical environmental challenges.<\/p>\n
\nThe state’s only nonprofit organization focused exclusively on protecting and restoring the coast of North Carolina through education, advocacy, and habitat preservation and restoration.<\/p>\n
\nA nonprofit organization that helps protect locally and regionally valuable natural areas and waters.<\/p>\n
\nResponsible for regulating the practice of law in North Carolina.<\/p>\n
\nLeads UNC’s world-renowned environmental community in developing solutions to critical challenges. In doing so, it educates future environmental leaders and engages with the people of North Carolina and the nation to address and solve environmental issues.<\/p>\n
\nThe institute\u2019s mission is to conduct cutting-edge research, train young scientists, provide expertise to governmental agencies and industry, and to promote new knowledge to inform public policy.<\/p>\n
\nThe center focuses on enhancing the ability of governments and other organizations to provide environmental programs and services in fair, effective and financially sustainable ways.<\/p>\n
\nThe mission of the School of Government is to improve the lives of North Carolinians by engaging in practical scholarship that helps public officials and citizens understand and improve state and local government.<\/p>\n
\nPromotes basic and applied research in oceanography, coastal and wetland studies, marine biomedical and environmental physiology, and marine biotechnology and aquaculture.<\/p>\n
\nThe institute conducts interdisciplinary research in coastal ocean and estuarine science, educates students and citizens, and provides advisory service to policy makers, industry, and the public.<\/p>\n