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"The Back Page" is an update 

 on Sea Grant activities — on 

 research, marine education and 

 advisory services. It's also a good 

 place to find out about meetings, 

 workshops and new publications. 

 For more information on any of 

 the projects described , contact the 

 Sea Grant offices in Raleigh 

 (919/737-2454). For copies of 

 publications , write UNC Sea 

 Grant. NCSU. Box 8605, Raleigh, 

 N.C. 27695-8605. 



Sea Grant has award- 

 ed mini-grant funds for 

 an interdisciplinary 

 study on marinas and 

 their effect on coastal 

 water quality. Par- 

 ticipating in the project 

 are John Fisher and Margery Overton, 

 of the NCSU Department of Civil 

 Engineering; Mark Sobsey, a UNC- 

 Chapel Hill biologist; and Rick Per- 

 due, of the NCSU Department of 

 Recreation Resources Administration. 



One of the problems associated with 

 the increased number of marinas along 

 the coast is the potential for degrada- 

 tion of water quality. The project, 

 which includes funds from the N.C. 

 Division of Coastal Management, will 

 focus on several factors which may af- 

 fect water quality: the number of 

 boats, the type of marine sanitation 

 device onboard, the frequency of boat 

 use, the hydrographic patterns of the 

 currents in the area, water tem- 

 perature and salinity, and levels of 

 coliform at the site. 



Previously, it has been impossible to 

 evaluate the complex issues related to 

 marinas and their impact on coastal 

 water quality, says Sea Grant Director 

 B.J. Copeland. This study will provide 

 researchers with some basic data. 



Spencer Rogers, Sea Grant's coastal 

 engineering specialist at Ft. Fisher, is 

 looking for someone with property on 

 an estuarine shoreline who can help 

 him test a design for a small estuarine 

 breakwater. 



The property must be on southern 

 estuaries in the state (the Neuse River 

 and south). The area should have 

 waves less than 3 feet and a flat 

 offshore slope; the water depth should 

 be 1 to 2 feet for the first 100 feet 

 offshore. 



Rogers will provide the design for 

 the breakwater, and the homeowner 

 must provide construction costs. He es- 

 timates the cost of the breakwater will 

 be two-thirds to one-half that of a 

 traditional bulkhead. 



If you would like to talk with Rogers 

 about the experiment, contact him at 

 the Marine Resources Center at Ft. 

 Fisher, P.O. Box 130, Kure Beach, 

 N.C. 28449, or call 919/458-5780. 



In 1984, prominent 

 scientists from across the 

 nation gathered in 

 Raleigh to explore the 

 future research needs of 

 the nation's estuaries. 

 This year, scientists will 

 meet Nov. 12 to 13 in Baton Rouge, 

 La., for the second in the series of sym- 

 posia designed to examine relation- 

 ships between scientific investigation 

 and management of estuarine areas 

 and resources. 



UNC Sea Grant Director B.J. 

 Copeland will serve as moderator for a 

 session on mitigation measures. Joe 

 Phillips, assistant director of the 

 NCSU Agricultural Extension Service, 

 will address the issue of citizen in- 

 volvement. 



The symposium is sponsored by the 

 National Sea Grant College Program 

 and the National Marine Fisheries Ser- 

 vice. For more information, contact Jo 

 Paula Lantier at (504) 388-6445 or 

 Donald Ekberg at (813) 893-3720. 



Sea Grant Director B.J. Copeland 

 will also serve as a panelist in a 

 regional workshop on water quality 

 and its relation to agriculture in the 

 Southeast. The workshop will be held 

 in Atlanta Nov. 7 to 8 and will draw 

 together researchers, educators and 

 participants from agricultural 



organizations and local, state and 

 federal government. 



For more information, contact the 

 Southern Rural Development Center, 

 Box 5406, Mississippi State, Miss. 

 39762, or call (601) 325-3207. 



If your appetite for coastal informa- 

 tion is just whetted by Coastwatch, 

 then add another Sea Grant newslet- 

 ter, Coastal Heritage, to your reading 

 list. Published by the South Carolina 

 Sea Grant Consortium, Coastal 

 Heritage will feature program 

 research, events, issues and activities. 

 The newsletter will focus on such 

 topics as aquaculture, advances in 

 fisheries technology, resource manage- 

 ment and erosion control. 



For a free subscription to Coastal 

 Heritage, write Communications, 

 S.C. Sea Grant Consortium, 221 Fort 

 Johnson Rd., Charleston, S.C. 29412- 

 9110. To subscribe to Coastvi^atch, 

 write Communications, UNC Sea 

 Grant, Box 8605, NCSU, Raleigh, 

 N.C. 27695-8605. 



Lundie Spence, UNC 

 Sea Grant's marine 

 education specialist, 

 recently received an 

 Outstanding Extension 

 Service award from N.C. 

 State University in 

 Raleigh. Of over 1,000 eligible can- 

 didates, Spence was one of eight se- 

 lected for the honor. 



Spence was recognized for her 

 leadership in promoting marine educa- 

 tion at the state and national levels. 

 Since joining Sea Grant seven years 

 ago, she has trained numerous North 

 Carolina educators in marine science 

 through workshops and resource 

 publications. In 1979, she received the 

 Governor's Award for Outdoor 

 Educator of the Year. In addition, 

 Spence served as president of the 

 National Marine Education Associa- 

 tion from 1983 to 1984, and as chair of 

 the National Sea Grant marine 

 educators in 1983. She was also in- 



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