Panel reviews 1976 UNC Sea Grant projects 



Twenty-six projects proposed by the UNC Sea 

 Grant Program for 1976 were reviewed September 

 30 and October 1 by a panel of marine scientists 

 and specialists from federal agencies, universities 

 and the private sector. This year's site visit was 

 held at Atlantic Beach. 



Now approaching its sixth year in North Caro- 

 lina, the Sea Grant Program proposed coastal and 

 marine research and advisory services projects 

 totaling $985,600. Funds for Sea Grant are 

 awarded by the U.S. Commerce Department's 

 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 

 (NOAA) and matched by the N.C. Department of 

 Administration. Federal funds make up 67 per 

 cent of the program budget. Approved funding will 

 be announced later. 



In opening remarks Dr. E. Walton Jones, UNC 

 associate vice president for research and public 

 service programs, welcomed the site panel and 

 spoke to the University's interest in an ongoing 

 Sea Grant Program. Dr. Ernie Carl, director of 

 the N.C. Office of Marine Affairs, expressed the 

 state's support for a Sea Grant Program directed 

 to pressing needs in the coastal area. 



N.C. Secretary of Administration Bruce Lentz, 

 in after-dinner remarks, reiterated the state's sup- 

 port for Sea Grant. But, he said, in a time of tough 



Toward better seafoods 



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methods should help processors and food safety 

 analysts carry out more effective processing sanita- 

 tion programs. Another phase of the study will 

 examine the value of coliform bacteria as an indi- 

 cator of disease-carrying bacteria in seafood. 



NCSU food scientist George Giddings will col- 

 lect data on nutrients and chemical contaminants 

 in North Carolina seafoods and will seek to deter- 

 mine how processing changes levels of nutrients 

 and contaminants. Such information should help 

 assure the safety and optimal nutritional value of 

 processed seafoods. 



budget decisions, Sea Grant must address top 

 priority problems in the coastal zone to provide 

 much-needed information for management 

 decisions on state and local levels. 



Members of the panel were David B. Duane, 

 associate program director, National Sea Grant 

 Office; William N. Shaw, assistant program man- 

 ager, NOAA Marine Advisory Service; Donald 

 H. Rosenberg, director, Alaska Sea Grant Pro- 

 gram; James H. Wakelin Jr., Research Analysis 

 Corporation; Ted Rice, director, Atlantic Estua- 

 rine Fisheries Center, Beaufort; Daniel A. Hunt, 

 U.S. Food and Drug Administration; C. J. Kirby, 

 U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station; 

 Robert Baker, Cornell University Institute of Food 

 Science and Marketing; George Benton, Johns 

 Hopkins University; and Abram Bernstein, Na- 

 tional Advisory Committee on Oceans and the 

 Atmosphere. 



Representing the four UNC campuses in the 

 Sea Grant Program were acting chancellor Jackson 

 A. Rigney, N.C. State University; Robert Holt, 

 vice-chancellor and dean, East Carolina Univer- 

 sity; Dirk Frankenberg, director of marine sci- 

 ences at UNC-Chapel Hill and Charles Cahill, vice- 

 chancellor, UNC-Wilimington. 



Upcoming conferences 



Energy from the Oceans: Fact or Fan- 

 tasy. January 27-28. Hilton Inn, Raleigh, 

 N.C. Sponsored by UNC Sea Grant, Coastal 

 Plains Center for Marine Development 

 Services and the NCSU Center for Marine 

 and Coastal Studies. Contact UNC Sea 

 Grant for more information. 



Annual Conference on Marine Resources 

 in the Coastal Plains States. December 

 11-12. DeSoto Hilton Hotel, Savannah, 

 Ga. Sponsored by the Coastal Plains 

 Center for Marine Development Services, 

 Wilmington, N.C. in cooperation with Vir- 

 ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 Georgia and Florida. Contact Phil Hill at 

 the Center at (919) 791-6432 for further 

 information. 



University of North Carolina 

 Sea Grant Program 

 1235 Burlington Laboratories 

 North Carolina State University 

 Raleigh, N.C. 27607 



