THE BACK PAGE 



"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). 



Again this year, UNC 

 Sea Grant will award 

 graduate fellowships for 

 students studying in ma- 

 rine science fields. Each 

 fellowship includes an 

 annual stipend of $7,000 

 for doctoral students and $6,000 for 

 masters students. Tuition and fees are 

 paid and an additional $1,000 is 

 provided for supplies and incidentals. 

 Two fellowships are available for 1982. 

 Applications must be received no later 

 than April 1. 



Prospective doctoral and masters 

 students from any recognized public or 

 private institution are eligible. 

 Recipients must be planning to attend 

 the University of North Carolina at 

 Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), North 

 Carolina State University (NCSU) in 

 Raleigh or East Carolina University 

 (ECU) in Greenville. 



Applicants must be registered, full- 

 time students, may not hold other 

 graduate assistantships, must remain 

 in good standing with their institutions 

 and must make satisfactory progress 

 toward receiving their degree. Appli- 

 cants must also submit written 

 proposals outlining their proposed 

 plans for research and study. 



For more information and applica- 

 tions, contact the Department of 

 Marine, Earth and Atmospheric 

 Sciences at NCSU, the Curriculum in 

 Marine Science at UNC-CH or the In- 

 stitute of Coastal and Marine Re- 

 sources at ECU. Information is also 

 available from the graduate schools of 

 the participating universities and from 

 UNC Sea Grant, 105 1911 Building, 

 NCSU, Raleigh, N.C. 27650. 



The minimum set- 

 backs for coastal con- 

 struction are the subject 

 of another Sea Grant 

 mini-grant. The re- 

 searchers are Alan Stutts 

 and Chrystos Siderlis 

 from North Carolina State Univer- 

 sity's Department of Recreation and 

 Resources Administration. 



Enforced since 1979, the minimum 

 construction setback requirement is 

 calculated on a 30-year erosion rate 

 which results in a setback as short as 

 60 feet or as long as 400 feet. (The 

 average annual erosion rate is two 

 feet.) As a general rule, the further a 

 structure is set back from the ocean, 

 the greater its resistance to hurricanes 

 and erosion. However, many builders 

 and property owners are using the 

 minimum standard as a maximum, 

 building right at the line. 



Working with Spencer Rogers, Sea 

 Grant's coastal engineer, Stutts and 

 Siderelis will be studying a sample area 

 of the coast, measuring setbacks. This 

 data will be combined with interviews 

 with property owners and state and 

 local officials. Their objective is to 

 determine if the setback requirements 

 have adverse effects, encouraging 

 development further seaward and in- 

 creasing the potential for loss of 

 property. 



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Several Sea Grant 

 people attended confer- 

 ences in February to pre- 

 sent their work. Ron 

 Hodson, Sea Grant's 

 associate director and 

 project director of the 

 NCSU Aquaculture Demonstration 

 Project, and Randy Rouse, a techni- 

 cian at the project, traveled to the 

 World Mariculture Society's meeting 

 in Charleston, South Carolina. 

 Technical sessions at the international 

 meeting covered new developments in 

 the culture of fish, shrimp, lobsters, 

 crawfish and molluscs. John Foster, 

 also of the Aquaculture Demonstra- 

 tion Project and Bill Rickards, direc- 



tor of Virginia Sea Grant, also pre- 

 sented a paper and poster on teaching 

 eels to eat pelleted feeds. (Rickards 

 was UNC Sea Grant's associate direc- 

 tor before he moved to Virginia last 

 spring.) 



John Sanders, Sea Grant's coastal 

 weather awareness specialist, was also 

 in Charleston for the Mid-South 

 Atlantic Coastal Hazards Conference. 

 Sponsored by the National Oceanic 

 and Atmospheric Administration, the 

 U.S. Geological Survey and the 

 Federal Emergency Management 

 Agency, the two-day conference pre- 

 sented information and programs on 

 agencies and businesses that deal with 

 hurricanes, floods, erosion, oil spills, 

 pollution and other coastal hazards. 

 Sanders also participated in the poster 

 session. 



Fuel costs have pinch- 

 ed harder and harder at 

 fishermen's pocket- 

 books in recent years. As 

 an answer to the prob- 

 lem, fishermen and 

 others are considering 

 sail power as an alternative or supple- 

 mental means of powering their ves- 

 sels. 



To learn more about sail power, the 

 Virginia Sea Grant Marine Advisory 

 Service is cosponsoring a workshop 

 May 19-21 in Norfolk, Virginia on 

 "Applications of Sail-Assisted Power 

 Technology." The University of South 

 Florida College of Engineering and 

 Sail Assist International Liaison 

 Associates, Inc. are also sponsoring the 

 workshop. 



Conference participants will discuss 

 and evaluate realistic applications of 

 sail-assisted power on fishing, research, 

 towing and cargo-carrying vessels. 

 Also during the conference, partici- 

 pants will examine the practical issues 

 associated with constructing, 

 retrofitting and working sail-assisted 

 vessels; the economics of sail-assisted 

 vessels; Coast Guard certification; in- 

 surance pros and cons; financing, and 

 realistic uses of sail-assisted power on 



