{"id":8690,"date":"2016-05-06T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/?post_type=news&p=7521"},"modified":"2016-05-06T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T20:28:11","slug":"doll-honored-with-sea-grant-outstanding-outreach-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/doll-honored-with-sea-grant-outstanding-outreach-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Doll Honored with Sea Grant Outstanding Outreach Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
Contact: Posted Friday, May 6, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n Barbara Doll<\/a> has been honored with the Sea Grant Mid-Atlantic region\u2019s Outstanding Outreach Award. Tom Murray, chair of the national Assembly of Sea Grant Extension Program Leaders, presented Doll with the award on April 27 at the regional meeting in Red Bank, New Jersey.<\/p>\n Doll, a water protection and restoration specialist with North Carolina Sea Grant, was recognized for using online video as a tool<\/a> to explain her research applying urban stream restoration methods in agricultural areas. The video also helped her earn an Outstanding Faculty Research Award from NC State University\u2019s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.<\/p>\n \u201cI am really honored to receive this award from our peers. The video offered a great challenge to be creative in telling the story of existing research needs, as well as the way we document how new technologies work in different situations,\u201d Doll notes.<\/p>\n Jack Thigpen<\/a>, extension director for North Carolina Sea Grant, is also pleased. \u201cThis project exemplifies Barbara\u2019s commitment to innovative and rigorous academic research \u2014 as well as her ability to apply that new knowledge to positively affect coastal ecosystems.\u201d<\/p>\n Doll now will compete against the other regional winners for the national outreach program award, to be presented by the Assembly of Sea Grant Extension Program Leaders at Sea Grant Week 2016 this fall.<\/p>\n In her more than two decades with Sea Grant, Doll has secured over $7 million in external funding for stream restoration demonstrations and related projects. She led the three-phase restoration of Rocky Branch, a tributary of the Neuse River running through the campus of NC State University. She also is recognized for working closely with industry and agency professionals, and for providing students with hands-on experience monitoring and evaluating the aquatic health and stability of streams.<\/p>\n \u201cIt has been great to connect with engineers and others in ecological restoration to advance the science and practice.\u00a0 After all this time, I am still having fun,\u201d Doll says.\u00a0 \u201cI also enjoy working with former students who are advancing in their careers.\u201d<\/p>\n She holds a doctorate degree in biological and agricultural engineering from\u00a0NC State University, where she has a joint appointment with the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department as an assistant extension professor. There she teaches courses and conducts research related to fluvial geomorphology and ecological restoration.<\/p>\n As part of her dissertation, Doll designed two studies on stream restoration effectiveness recently published in the journal Water<\/em>.\u00a0 In one \u2014 Can Rapid Assessments Predict the Biotic Condition of Restored Streams?<\/em><\/a> \u2014 Doll shows a path to predict what is living in the restored stream.<\/p>\n
\nJack Thigpen, 919-515-3012, <\/em>jack_thigpen@ncsu.edu<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n