{"id":6656,"date":"2016-03-07T14:49:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/?post_type=news&amp;p=6656"},"modified":"2016-03-07T14:49:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:49:27","slug":"nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"NC Sea Grant Funds Varied Coastal Research for 2016-2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/h3>\n<p><em>Contact:<br \/>\nKatie Mosher, 919-515-9069, <a href=\"mailto:kmosher@ncsu.edu\">kmosher@ncsu.edu<\/a><br \/>\nJohn Fear, 919-515-9104, <\/em><em><a href=\"mailto:jmfear@ncsu.edu\">jmfear@ncsu.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Posted Monday, March 7, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6665\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6665\" src=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nc_map_ESRI_web.jpg\" alt=\"Map of North Carolina coast\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nc_map_ESRI_web.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nc_map_ESRI_web-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Carolina Sea Grant&#8217;s 2016-2018 research projects will consider critical coastal issues.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Researchers across the state are beginning North Carolina Sea Grant research projects, looking at topics such as shellfish and finfish aquaculture, southern flounder, algal blooms, storm surge, environmental education, coastal communities and public health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased that these projects will consider such critical coastal issues,\u201d notes <a href=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/about-us\/our-team\/susan-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan White<\/a>, executive director. \u201cThese two-year projects are considered our core research. They complement our ongoing research efforts, including minigrants and fellowships, along with our outreach and partnerships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The projects include researchers from varied universities, including: East Carolina University, North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC Wilmington and Duke University. Several projects also include community partners.<\/p>\n<p>Funding comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through the National Sea Grant College Program, along with state funding through the University of North Carolina system. Each project also includes matching funds from the respective university.<\/p>\n<p>The follow listing of the core projects, which will run through early 2018, cites the lead investigator, as well as other participants.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fishery Management Implications of Environmentally Determined Sex and Biased Juvenile Sex Ratios in Southern Flounder<br \/>\n<\/strong>Russell Borski of NC&#160;State, with Jeff Buckel, Harry Daniels, John Godwin and James Rice, all of NC&#160;State.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Interactions between Waves, Flooding and Beach Morphology During Storm Events<br \/>\n<\/strong>Joel C. Dietrich of NC&#160;State, with Rick Luettich of UNC-Chapel Hill and Margery Overton of NC&#160;State.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Effects of Oyster Grow-Out Cages on the Condition and Ecosystem-Services of Seagrass Communities<br \/>\n<\/strong>Joel Fodrie of UNC-Chapel Hill, with James Morley and Abigail Poray, also of UNC-Chapel Hill, and Katherine McGlade of Hatteras.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Next Generation&#8221; Coastal Communities: Leveraging Social Capital to Build Local Leadership Capacity<br \/>\n<\/strong>David Griffith of ECU, with Barbara Garrity-Blake of Duke and Susan West from Buxton. <a href=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/about-us\/our-team\/sara-mirabilio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sara Mirabilio<\/a> of Sea Grant also will participate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Understanding the Public Health Risk Associated with Under Dock Oyster Culture and Aquaculture Activities in the Estuarine Waters of North Carolina<br \/>\n<\/strong>Rachel Noble of UNC-Chapel Hill, with Brett Froelich, also of UNC-Chapel Hill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hypoxia and Algal Bloom Forecasting for the Neuse River Estuary<br \/>\n<\/strong>Daniel Obenour of NC&#160;State, with Hans Paerl of UNC-Chapel Hill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Going with the Flow: New Approaches for Determining Drivers of Toxic Cyanobacteria Blooms in the Cape Fear River, NC<br \/>\n<\/strong>Hans Paerl of UNC-Chapel Hill, with Nathan Hall of UNC-Chapel Hill, Scott Ensign of Morehead City and Astrid Schnetzer of NC&#160;State.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Building Climate Literacy and Coastal Hazard Resilience through Intergenerational Transfer<br \/>\n<\/strong>Markus Nils Peterson, NC&#160;State, with Howard Bondell, Sarah Carrier, Kathryn Stevenson and Renee Strnad, all of NC&#160;State.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Overcoming Technical Barriers to Cost-Effective Production of Marine Finfish Fingerlings and Expanded Growout Production: Optimizing Nursery Stocking, Feeding and Harvesting Strategies<br \/>\n<\/strong>Wade Watanabe of UNC Wilmington, with Md. Shah Alam and Patrick Carroll, also of UNC Wilmington.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to the core projects, Lisa Schiavinato, North Carolina Sea Grant\u2019s coastal law, policy and community development specialist, is part of a South Atlantic Sea Grant regional project: <em>Advancing Understanding of Risk: Increasing Accuracy of Hazard Damage Assessment Tools by Improving Base Data and Analyzing Opportunities and Barriers for Use in Adaptation Planning<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That team is led by Shana Jones of the University of Georgia, along with J. Scott Pippin also of UGA, Jason Evans of Stetson University in Florida, Kirstin Dow of the University of South Carolina, and Victor Flatt of UNC-Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>North Carolina Sea Grant: Your link to research and resources for a healthier coast<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers across the state are beginning North Carolina Sea Grant research projects, looking at topics such as shellfish and finfish aquaculture, southern flounder, algal blooms, storm surge, environmental education, coastal communities and public health.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nKatie Mosher, 919-515-9069, <a href=\"mailto:kmosher@ncsu.edu\">kmosher@ncsu.edu<\/a><br \/>\nJohn Fear, 919-515-9104, <a href=\"mailto:jmfear@ncsu.edu\">jmfear@ncsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1394,1391],"tags":[],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"displayCategory":null,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NC Sea Grant Funds Varied Coastal Research for 2016-2018 - North Carolina Sea Grant<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NC Sea Grant Funds Varied Coastal Research for 2016-2018 - North Carolina Sea Grant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Researchers across the state are beginning North Carolina Sea Grant research projects, looking at topics such as shellfish and finfish aquaculture, southern flounder, algal blooms, storm surge, environmental education, coastal communities and public health. Contact: Katie Mosher, 919-515-9069, kmosher@ncsu.edu John Fear, 919-515-9104, jmfear@ncsu.edu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"North Carolina Sea Grant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-07T19:49:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nc_map_ESRI_web.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Katie Mosher\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Katie Mosher\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/\",\"name\":\"NC Sea Grant Funds Varied Coastal Research for 2016-2018 - North Carolina Sea Grant\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/guten\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nc_map_ESRI_web.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-07T19:49:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-03-07T19:49:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/guten\/#\/schema\/person\/84deab7bd69b4f5e8491fcba9fb8a252\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\",\"width\":300,\"height\":420,\"caption\":\"Map of North Carolina coast\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"NC Sea Grant Funds Varied Coastal Research for 2016-2018\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/guten\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/guten\/\",\"name\":\"North Carolina Sea Grant\",\"description\":\"North Carolina Sea Grant news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/guten\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/guten\/#\/schema\/person\/84deab7bd69b4f5e8491fcba9fb8a252\",\"name\":\"Katie Mosher\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/guten\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/420e5d06b62358c0d7f5179c74d9381d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/420e5d06b62358c0d7f5179c74d9381d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Katie Mosher\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/author\/kmosher\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NC Sea Grant Funds Varied Coastal Research for 2016-2018 - North Carolina Sea Grant","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"NC Sea Grant Funds Varied Coastal Research for 2016-2018 - North Carolina Sea Grant","og_description":"Researchers across the state are beginning North Carolina Sea Grant research projects, looking at topics such as shellfish and finfish aquaculture, southern flounder, algal blooms, storm surge, environmental education, coastal communities and public health. Contact: Katie Mosher, 919-515-9069, kmosher@ncsu.edu John Fear, 919-515-9104, jmfear@ncsu.edu","og_url":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/","og_site_name":"North Carolina Sea Grant","article_published_time":"2016-03-07T19:49:27+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nc_map_ESRI_web.jpg"}],"author":"Katie Mosher","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Katie Mosher","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/","url":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/","name":"NC Sea Grant Funds Varied Coastal Research for 2016-2018 - North Carolina Sea Grant","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/guten\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nc_map_ESRI_web.jpg","datePublished":"2016-03-07T19:49:27+00:00","dateModified":"2016-03-07T19:49:27+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/guten\/#\/schema\/person\/84deab7bd69b4f5e8491fcba9fb8a252"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":"","width":300,"height":420,"caption":"Map of North Carolina coast"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-sea-grant-funds-varied-coastal-research-for-2016-2018\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NC Sea Grant Funds Varied Coastal Research for 2016-2018"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/guten\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/guten\/","name":"North Carolina Sea Grant","description":"North Carolina Sea Grant news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/guten\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/guten\/#\/schema\/person\/84deab7bd69b4f5e8491fcba9fb8a252","name":"Katie Mosher","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/guten\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/420e5d06b62358c0d7f5179c74d9381d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/420e5d06b62358c0d7f5179c74d9381d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Katie Mosher"},"url":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/author\/kmosher\/"}]}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=6656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}