COASTAL 



TIDINGS 



How are We Doing? 



part of the National Sea Grant 

 Program network, North Carolina Sea 

 Grant will have a national team of experts 

 on hand in September to evaluate research, 

 education and outreach programs. 



The team will include two members of 

 the National Sea Grant Review Panel, a 

 director from another Sea Grant program 

 and experts in coastal topics. 



The group will visit coastal locations 

 to meet with constituent groups served by 

 Sea Grant. The panel also will hear 

 presentations by Sea Grant-funded 

 researchers from the University of North 

 Carolina system, and will meet with 

 advisory council members and others. 



The review team requests comments 

 from North Carolina residents regarding 

 the role of North Carolina Sea Grant, with 

 an emphasis on Sea Grant activities within 

 the past five years. 



Written comments are due by Aug.1 5. 

 Send to: Peter Bell, Chair, c/o Ronald G. 

 Hodson, North Carolina Sea Grant, NC 

 State University, Campus Box 8605, 

 Raleigh, NC 27695-8605. - KM 



Sea Grant on the Move 



North Carolina Sea Grant's Manteo 

 office has moved to 21 7 Budleigh St. in 

 downtown Manteo. 



The former county office building also 

 will be home to the newly created University 

 of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute 

 on Roanoke Island. Interim Institute 

 Director Nancy White will be onboard this 

 month. 



Ann Pierce will double as administra- 

 tive assistant for Sea Grant and the 

 institute. To contact them, mail to P.O. Box 

 699, Manteo, NC 27954; phone: 252/475- 

 3663; fax: 252/475-3545. 



JackThigpen, Sea Grant extension 

 director and tourism specialist, is relocating 

 to Sea Grant's headquarters at North 

 Carolina State University. To reach him, 

 mail to North Carolina Sea Grant, NC State 

 University, Box 8605, Raleigh, NC 27695- 

 8605; phone 919/515-2454. - P.S. 



White to Lead 

 New Program 



N ancy White has been named interim 

 director of the newly established University of 

 North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute on 

 Roanoke Island. 



White's initial task will be to lay the 

 foundation for the center that will focus on the 

 unique history, culture, environment and 

 maritime counties of northeastern North 

 Carolina. 



She brings to the position a wealth of 

 community-building experience. Until her 

 appointment, White was a research associate 

 professor and extension specialist in the 

 landscape architecture department at the North 

 Carolina State University College of Design. 

 She also served as extension program leader 

 and director of research, extension and 

 sponsored programs for the college. 



White has earned recognition across the 

 state and nation for her work in landscape 

 ecology. Her research and education focus is on 

 the relationship of land-use change, watershed 

 hydrology, bacterial contamination and water 

 quality. 



In recent years, she has received more 

 than $4 million in federal and state grants to test 

 techniques for more sustainable land use and 



site design — particularly as they relate to fecal 

 coliform mitigation. The results of her studies 

 have been published in professional journals, 

 including the Journal of Shellfish Research. 



White frequently collaborates with North 

 Carolina Sea Grant on mitigation projects and on 

 publications. She authored Protecting Estuarine 

 Water Quality Through Design (UNC-SG-01- 

 13), one of four informational guides in The 

 Soundfront Series. 



The institute office is at 217 Budleigh St. in 

 downtown Manteo. - P.S. 



McLellan Receives NOAA Hero Award 



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Ml iam A. McLellan, a University of 

 North Carolina at Wilmington Center for Marine 

 Science researcher, has been honored as a 2003 

 NOAA Environmental Hero by the National 

 Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. 



McLellan was presented the award in April 

 at an Earth Day celebration at UNC-W. 



The award recognizes McLellan for his 

 outstanding efforts over 1 8 years, responding 

 to and investigating marine mammal strandings 

 throughout the nation. He has volunteered 

 numerous hours and driven thousands of miles 

 to determine the causes of strandings. McLellan 

 responded to die-offs in 1 998 on the West Coast 

 and in 1 994 in Texas. 



Now, McLellan is the large whale necropsy team leader for the mid-Atlantic, as well as the 

 North Carolina stranding coordinator. 



The NOAA Hero award, established in 1 995 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Earth 

 Day, honors individuals and organizations for their "tireless efforts to preserve and protect our 

 nation's environment." — A.G. 



William A. McLellan receives a 'heroes welcome' 

 during UNC-W Earth Day celebrations 



4 HIGH SEASON 2003 



