{"id":14281,"date":"2022-03-22T14:21:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T18:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/news\/?p=14281"},"modified":"2023-12-11T13:12:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T18:12:46","slug":"nc-sea-grant-and-apnep-name-new-joint-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-and-apnep-name-new-joint-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"NC Sea Grant and APNEP Name New Joint Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contact:<\/strong>
\nKatie Mosher,\u00a0kmosher@ncsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Joshua Himmelstein, a Ph.D. student in the\u00a0University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute of Marine Sciences,\u00a0is the recipient of the 2022 joint fellowship from\u00a0North Carolina Sea Grant<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership<\/a>. Himmelstein will install arrays of low-cost, open-source sensors across coastal North Carolina marshes in order to study sediment delivery.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoshua\u2019s fellowship project will help address an ongoing mystery in marsh dynamics regarding the availability of sediment supply and the ability of marshes to accrete,\u201d says John Fear, deputy director of North Carolina Sea Grant and the North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute. \u201cCoastal marshes are an important nursery area for estuarine species and an extremely productive ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n

The joint fellowship, now in its sixth year, supports graduate students from institutions based in North Carolina who conduct applied research within the North Carolina portion of the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership<\/a>\u00a0(APNEP) region. That region covers most of the Albemarle-Pamlico watershed, including the Neuse, Tar-Pamlico, Pasquotank, Chowan, lower Roanoke, and parts of the White Oak river basins.<\/p>\n

\u201cResearch on the impacts of climate change to the structural and functional loss of coastal wetlands is needed to inform and prioritize conservation efforts in the Albemarle-Pamlico estuary,\u201d says Tim Ellis, APNEP\u2019s quantitative ecologist. \u201cThis project will provide novel information on how sediment is distributed across saltmarshes, helping us to better understand the vulnerability of this important coastal habitat to sea-level rise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Himmelstein works with Antonio Rodriguez, coastal geologist in the Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences department and based at IMS. Rodriguez says that tidal creeks across coastal North Carolina are \u201cfilling in with sediment\u201d at a time when many of the adjacent marshes are losing elevation relative to sea level.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoshua\u2019s research may detail a reason why these two adjacent environments are responding differently, while validating a low-cost, publicly deployable monitoring tool,\u201d Rodriguez explains.<\/p>\n

Salt marshes are vital components of healthy estuaries but are declining in some areas due to erosion, development, and slow sediment accumulation. The sensors that Himmelstein plans to install will reveal patterns in sediment delivery to marshes \u2014 information that he then will relate to local topography at each site.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsing the data produced here, I plan to test whether small gradients in marsh elevation have outsized effects on marsh sustainability,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Himmelstein earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in geology and environmental science from the College of William and Mary.<\/p>\n

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Read more about this and other Sea Grant fellowships and funding opportunities<\/a> at\u00a0ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/funding-opps\/.<\/a><\/p>\n

Learn more about the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership at\u00a0www.apnep.org.<\/a><\/p>\n

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