state's Office of Coastal Management, 

 but also for many coastal com- 

 munities. There is simply more legal 

 and planning work than there are peo- 

 ple trained to do it. Much of this work 

 is research, and that's an area in which 

 Sea Grant can offer help. 



Sea Grant is funding a new two-year 

 project that will provide both research 

 and training. Graduate students from 

 two state campuses, the University of 

 North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC- 

 CH) and North Carolina Central Uni- 

 versity (NCCU), will be recruited to 

 work on coastal issues. Their efforts 

 will be directed by David Brower, of 

 the Center for Urban and Regional 

 Studies at UNC-CH, and Tom Earn- 

 hardt associate professor of law at NCCU 



The idea of involving students in 

 such work is not new. The first Sea 

 Grant project in coastal law and plan- 

 ning was begun in 1971. Students from 

 that program, and from the other 

 programs that followed, have gone on 

 to become coastal policy-makers active 

 in a number of state offices. 



This year's project has several goals: 

 to provide some of the research and 

 scholarship coastal management of- 

 ficials need to set effective policy; to 

 interest and train talented law and 

 public-policy students in the growing 

 field of coastal and marine planning 

 and law; and to help leaders keep up- 

 to-date on the issues they face. 



As their colleagues probe the soils, 

 contours and issues of coastal North 

 Carolina, two teams of researchers 

 from NCSU will continue a pair of pro- 

 jects aimed at measuring and 

 predicting the movement of its waters. 



Ernie Knowles and Bob Weisberg 

 are continuing a search begun in 1979 

 for ways of predicting how the Gulf 

 Stream affects wave energy at the 

 coast. Much of their effort so far has 

 been invested in improving and testing 

 the sophisticated gear required to 

 measure wave size, shape and energy. 

 This year and next, the team plans to 

 use the equipment to pull together the 

 data they need to tailor standard 

 wave-prediction models to North 

 Carolina. Such information could be 

 applied to a host of coastal problems, 

 from the design of coastal structures to 

 the control of beach erosion. 



The sea's energy runs deeper than 

 surface waves. Currents carry sand, 

 nutrients, pollution, marine life and 

 energy in the nearshore waters. 

 Measuring and understanding those 

 currents is critical to the management 



of many coastal resources. 



In 1979 and 1980, Tom Curtin and 

 Yates Sorrell developed the tools to 

 measure and describe those currents. 

 Current meters have been available for 

 some time, but they were designed for 

 deep water and were so expensive that 

 scientists could not use enough of them 

 to adequately measure nearshore 

 processes. Curtin and Sorrell's gear has 



Beaches, marshes, islands, estuaries 

 and the sea — there is no more 

 stimulating setting or subject for 

 learning than coastal North Carolina. 

 Just ask a child whose teacher has led a 

 field trip there. 



For some time, Sea Grant's marine 

 education specialist, Lundie Mauldin, 

 has worked to infuse marine studies 

 into the curricula of the state's public 

 schools. This year, Sea Grant will sup- 

 port five innovative projects that will 

 reaffirm North Carolina's national 

 leadership in marine education. 



—By 1985, about 80,000 young peo- 

 ple in the state's 4-H programs will 

 have had exposure to marine and 

 coastal science, thanks to a new Sea 

 Grant program organized by Donald 

 Stormer and Dalton Proctor of the 

 N.C. Agricultural Extension Service 

 that will train 4-H extension leaders 

 and volunteers, and develop study 

 materials for youth. 



Because of the project, coastal 

 resources will be stressed in 4-H 

 curricula, v o 1 u n t e e r - 1 r a i n i n g 

 workshops and 4-H camps. The entire 

 effort is aimed at instilling in some of 

 the state's future leaders a working 

 knowledge of coastal resources. 



— This year Sea Grant will be bring- 

 ing more of the coast to the classroom. 

 With a video system to be shared be- 

 tween the Marine Resources Centers, 

 Sea Grant and center staff can tape 

 workshops and programs for later use 

 in the classroom. Neal Conoley, pro- 

 ject coordinator and education 

 specialist with the N.C. Office of 

 Marine Affairs, says the video system 

 can also be used to share programs be- 

 tween the centers. 



— Three interns have successfully 

 completed a program begun last year 

 to train leaders in marine education. 

 The project, directed by Carolyn 



the advantage of being relatively inex- 

 pensive, and yet accurate. This year, 

 the team plans to moor several of the 

 new meters and begin collecting data. 



If the team is successful, it will be 

 possible for scientists to trace 

 nutrients, pollution, and sediments, 

 and define the physical environment of 

 the marine life. 



Hampton of ECU, schools future 

 educators in the issues and the natural 

 environment of coastal North 

 Carolina. This year, several more stu- 

 dents working towards advanced 

 degrees in education will use in- 

 ternships in institutions like the N. C. 

 Marine Resources Centers to develop 

 new educational materials and 

 teaching strategies. 



— In its fellowship program this 

 year, Sea Grant will offer support to 

 five undergraduate students, from 

 primarily black or American Indian 

 colleges, who will participate in marine 

 studies. Also, three doctoral can- 

 didates working in marine science will 

 use Sea Grant fellowships to further 

 their studies. 



— Beyond the classroom, the need 

 for education is especially keen. A 

 program of continuing education for 

 commercial fishermen, led by Jim 

 McGee of ECU, last year reached hun- 

 dreds of fishermen with information 

 about new gear, safety practices and 

 navigation. This year, more 

 workshops, classes and presentations 

 will cover such areas as financial 

 management, new technology and 

 practical meteorology. 



— While these projects try to fill the 

 immediate need for marine education, 

 another Sea Grant research team is 

 trying to anticipate the future need for 

 skills and education in another area — 

 the seafood industry. Nozar Hashem- 

 zadeh and Michael Simmons, both of 

 North Carolina A&T State Univer- 

 sity, spent last year learning about the 

 industry's needs for manpower. They 

 have found that seafood plants, as 

 they modernize, are hampered by a 

 shortage of skilled labor. The team is 

 compiling a profile of the state's 

 seafood industry, including an analysis 

 of its labor requirements. 



An epidemic of marine education 



