Coastwatch 



Managing Editor 

 Katie Mosher 



Senior Editors 

 Ann Green 

 Pam Smith 



Contributing Editor 

 Cynthia Henderson 



Designer 

 L. Noble 



Circulation Manager 

 Sandra Harris 



The North Carolina Sea Grant College 

 Program is a federal/state program that 

 promotes the wise use of our coastal and 

 marine resources through research, extension 

 and education. It joined the National Sea Grant 

 College Network in 1970 as an institutional 

 program. Six years later, it was designated a 

 Sea Grant College. Today. North Carolina Sea 

 Grant supports several research projects, 

 a 15-member extension program and a 

 communications staff. Ron Hodson is director. 

 The program is funded by the U.S. Department 

 of Commerce's National Oceanic and 

 Atmospheric Administration and the state 

 through the University of North Carolina. 

 Coastwatch (ISSN 1068-784X) 

 is published six times a year by the 

 North Carolina Sea Grant College Program. 

 North Carolina State University, Box 8605, 

 Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8605. 

 Telephone: 919/515-2454. Fax: 919/515-7095. 

 Subscriptions are $15. 

 E-mail: katie_mosher@ncsu.edu 

 World Wide Web address: 

 http://www.ncsu.edu/seagrant 

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 Table of contents of photo rag doll 

 by Michael Halminski. 

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COASTAL 



TIDINGS 



Knauss Fellows Head 

 for Nation's Capital 



I wo North Carolina scholars are 

 heading for the nation's capital as Dean John 

 A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellows for 2003. 

 They will spend the coming year learning about 

 federal policy-making processes that affect 

 the ocean, coastal and Great Lakes re- 

 sources. 



Lisa Manning (left), a graduate student 

 at the University of North Carolina at 

 Chapel Hill's Institute of Marine Sciences, 

 and Larissa Nojek (right), a graduate student 

 at Duke University's Nicholas School of the 

 Environment and Earth Science, were 

 selected for the prestigious fellowship. The 

 fellowship, valued at $38,000, is sponsored 

 by the National Sea Grant College Program. 



Manning, who is from Minnechaug, 

 Mass., earned a bachelor of science degree 

 in biology from Bates College in Lewiston, 

 Maine, and completed a semester in the 

 Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program. 



Before entering the doctoral program in 

 biology, Manning was a guest lecturer in 

 biological oceanography and a research 



assistant at the Institute of Marine Sciences. 

 She currently is studying the ecological 

 impacts of beach nourishment, a Sea Grant- 

 funded project. 



Nojek, who is from Springfield, Va., is 

 completing a master's degree in environ- 

 mental management with a concentration in 

 coastal zone management. She earned a 

 bachelor of science degree in environmental 

 earth science from Mary Washington College. 



Before entering graduate studies at 

 Duke, she worked as an environmental 

 analyst and consultant for a Virginia-based 

 firm. At Duke, Nojek is researching the use 

 of remote sensing on the Pamlico Sound, 

 with water quality and policy implications. 



The fellowship program honors 

 Knauss — a Sea Grant founder and former 

 dean of the Graduate School of Oceanogra- 

 phy at the University of Rhode Island. 



For information about applying for the 

 2004 Knauss Fellowship program, go online 

 to www.ncsu.edu/seagrant. 



-P.S. 



In the Next Issue of Coastwatch 



Ann Green takes readers inside some historic cottages at Cape Lookout National 

 Seashore. Jason Talley goes whale-watching along North Carolina's winter coast. And, 

 Pam Smith learns the latest science of flounder aquaculture. 



2 HOLIDAY 2002 



