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image: Lead image: a graysby grouper about to be released with the aid of a descending device. Credit SAFMC.

Oct 29, 2024

Descending Devices Lessen “Barotrauma” in Deep-Water Fish

Sci NC has released a video special about how anglers testing descending devices in North Carolina fisheries may not only be conserving fish, but also promoting long-term stability in the fishing industry.

image: broken road, Hendersonville area in North Carolina.

Oct 17, 2024

Coastwatch Covers Hurricane Helene’s Record-Breaking Strength

The Fall 2024 issue of North Carolina Sea Grant’s award-winning Coastwatch magazine explores the catastrophic power of Hurricane Helene. The print edition of the Fall issue was already at press when Helene devastated western North Carolina, but the NC State Climate Office’s Corey Davis provides context for the record-breaker in his special online-only feature about the hurricane’s strength...

image: Students in Sea Grant's 2024 Community Engaged Internship Program.

Oct 15, 2024

NC Sea Grant Accepting Partner Proposals for the Community Engaged Internship Program

North Carolina Sea Grant is accepting project proposals until December 6 to host students in the 2025 Community Engaged Internship Program. Host sites supervise interns and may include current partners and organizations, non-profits, government agencies, university and college faculty, and local community groups. 

Oct 4, 2024

Sea Grant and APNEP Now Accepting Applications for Graduate Fellowship

For immediate release Contact: Aman Kohli, akkohli@ncsu.eduor Tim Ellis, tim.ellis@deq.nc.gov North Carolina Sea Grant and the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership (APNEP) are accepting applications for the 2024 Graduate Fellowship in…

image: Robin Fail.

Oct 3, 2024

National Knauss Fellowship Program Selects Five NC Finalists

NOAA and the National Sea Grant Office have announced their finalists for the 2025 class of the Sea Grant John A. Knauss Policy Fellowship Program. Of 88 finalists from the 34 national Sea Grant programs, five are from North Carolina: Robin Fail, Everett Craddock, Maylyn Hinson, Delaney McBride, and Hayden Rudd.