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Rip currents cause around 100 fatalities along the nation's coastlines each year. In 2000, ten individuals died from them in North Carolina waters. Mosher discusses a North Carolina Sea Grant project that raises rip current awareness in beach communities and the rip current research going on in Florida.
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A Fishery Resource Grant project to track turtles in the Pamlico Sound is also providing data for a marine life census that stretches around the world. The Pamlico project is designed to determine movements of loggerheads and other turtles in an effort to reduce the number of turtles caught in flounder gill nets. Using a single satellite, the project tracked forty-five turtles, making it one of the world's largest turtle-tracking studies. Mosher gives an update of the project.
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Coastwatch
(NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Early Summer 2004,
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Michael P. Voiland, assistant director for research and development at Cornell University, is the new director of North Carolina Sea Grant. He succeeds Roland G. Hodson, who is retiring June 30, 2006. Voiland has held a number of positions for the past thirty years in New York's Sea Grant and Land Grant programs, including Great Lakes program coordinator and associate director and extension program leader for New York Sea Grant.
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Ronald Hodson came to North Carolina in 1973 to work as a research associate in the fledgling North Carolina Sea Grant program. He is retiring in 2006, after thirty-three years service. He has been the program's director since 1998. Moser looks at his career.
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Coastwatch
(NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Early Summer 2006,
p20-23, il, por
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Michael P. Voiland, assistant director for research and development at Cornell University, is the new director of North Carolina Sea Grant. He succeeds Roland G. Hodson, who is retiring June 30, 2006. Voiland has held a number of positions for the past thirty years in New York's Sea Grant and Land Grant programs, including Great Lakes program coordinator and associate director and extension program leader for New York Sea Grant.
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In 2006, Ronald Baird retired as director of the National Sea Grant College Program, a position he had held since 1996. He is now putting his knowledge and expertise to work in North Carolina as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's Center for Marine Science. Baird received a 2006 Presidential Rank Award, the most prestigious federal award given to senior professionals.
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The North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation in 2006 establishing the North Carolina Waterfront Access Study Committee. Access to water along the state's coastline is a hot topic, because piers, boat ramps, and other access points are being sold to developers. Getting to the water is becoming more difficult for the average citizen. The committee has held meetings in Manteo, Morehead City, and Wilmington, and 275 people have attended. Mosher discusses concerns and suggestions citizens offered to the committee.
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The North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation in 2006 establishing the North Carolina Waterfront Access Study Committee. Access to water along the state's coastline is a hot topic, because piers, boat ramps, and other access points are being sold to developers. Getting to the water is becoming more difficult for the average citizen. Mosher reports on action taken by the 2007 General Assembly in response to the recommendations from the study commission.
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Mosher reports on a new educational program to help halt the introduction and spread of invasive species. The program is funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Sea Grant College Program.
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When a hurricane approaches the coast, communicating fast, accurate information to affected citizens can mean the difference between life and death. East Carolina University researchers Catherine Smith, Donna Kain, and Ken Wilson are working with coastal officials to examine the ways that people attend to, interpret, and use official and unofficial information to make decisions regarding severe weather.
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11.From NC to DC: NOAA Official Remembers Floyd by Mosher, Katie Coastwatch Vol. Issue , Autumn 2009
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Now an assistant administrator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Diane Furgione was the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Morehead City/Newport when Hurricanes Dennis and Floyd struck. She recounts her experiences and lessons learned.
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Hydrilla, an aquatic weed, has arrived in the state's northern coastal waters. A fast-growing Asian perennial, it is coasting North Carolina millions of dollars in efforts to control it.
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Big Sweep in North Carolina is a volunteer effort started in 1987 to clean trash from beaches and waterways. The program now functions in all the state's one hundred counties and receives broad-based backing from citizens and companies like Reynolds American, Duke Power, and First Citizens Banks. This autumn the program marks its twenty-fifth anniversary.
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Coastal trees not only provide welcome shade to residents and visitors, but they also offer water- and air-quality benefits. This ongoing Sustainability Series includes a section on trees and plants and their benefits to the community.
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18264
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Michael Voiland, executive director of the North Carolina Sea Grant and the Water Research Institute of the University of North Carolina, is retiring. Mosher gives a summary of his tenure.
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