fishing and oceanographic vessels. In 

 addition, data on fuel savings will be 

 presented and evaluated. 



At least two working sail-assisted 

 vessels will be at dockside for the con- 

 ference, including the Norfolk Rebel, 

 featured in the February 1981 

 Coastwatch. 



Conference registration is $60 and 

 includes two lunches plus conference 

 materials. Lodging arrangements 

 should be made directly with the Omni 

 International Hotel, 777 Waterfront 

 Drive, Norfolk, Va. 23501. 



For more information contact, Jon 

 Lucy, Sea Grant Marine Advisory Ser- 

 vice, Virginia Institute for Marine 

 Sciences, Glouester Point, Va. 23062 or 

 call (804) 642-6131. 



In a second year of budget cuts, 

 President Ronald Reagan has again 

 proposed reducing the federal Sea 

 Grant program budget to phase-out 

 levels. The proposed budget submitted 

 to Congress allows only $1.7 million for 

 Sea Grant in 1983, to be used to shut 

 down the program. 



Efforts are being made to try to 

 restore the Sea Grant budget to 

 operational levels. 



James D. Murray 

 joined UNC Sea Grant 

 March 5 as the new di- 

 rector of marine advis- 

 ory services. Murray 

 comes to North Caro- 

 lina from New Jersey, 

 where he served as director of the New 

 Jersey Sea Grant Marine Advisory 

 Services. He has also worked in the 

 Minnesota and New York Sea Grant 

 Programs. 



Murray received his undergraduate 

 degree in economics from Syracuse 

 University and his master's degree in 

 resource management from the State 

 University of New York at Syracuse. 



Murray replaces J.C. Jones, who 

 retired as director of the marine ad- 

 visory services during 1981. 



UNC Sea Grant Director B.J. I 

 Copeland will chair a committee set up 

 by the Council of Sea Grant Directors 

 to establish national priorities for es- 

 tuarine research during the next five to 

 10 years. Copeland says the committee 

 will work closely with the Office of Sea 



Grant in Washington, D.C., to deter- 

 mine which estuarine projects should 

 receive federal funding from Sea 

 Grant. 



One top concern the committee will 

 examine, Copeland says, is the 

 relationship between management of 

 freshwater intrusion and estuarine 

 production, a major problem facing 

 many coastal states including North 

 Carolina. 



Spencer Rogers, UNC Sea Grant's 

 coastal engineering specialist at the 

 N.C. Marine Resources Center at Ft. 

 Fisher, has received an academic ap- 

 pointment as senior engineering exten- 

 sion specialist with the North Carolina 

 State University Department of Civil 

 Engineering. Rogers now has joint ap- 

 pointment in Sea Grant and the civil 

 engineering department. 



North Carolina's Atlantic grave- 

 yard has claimed more than its fair 

 share of wrecks, but none more famous 

 than the Civil War ironclad U.S.S. 

 Monitor. Beginning April 23, the N. C. 

 Marine Resources Centers at Fort 

 Fisher, Bogue Banks and Roanoke 

 Island will feature a display of the 

 Monitor, which sank off the Outer 



Banks in 1862. Artifacts and photos 

 tell the history of the Monitor and the 

 dives which brought up pieces of the 

 ship and its contents. Parts of the ex- 

 hibit are on loan from the National 

 Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- 

 tration, the U.S. Navy and the Divi- 

 sion of Archives and History. For more 

 information about the exhibits, con- 

 tact the Office of Marine Affairs at 

 733-2290. 



Project CAPE (Coast- 

 al Awareness in Public 

 Education), a project by 

 the Dare County 

 Schools, has four marine 

 education units avail- 

 able for educators to 



purchase. For eighth-grade study, 

 Project CAPE offers Field Studies 

 for the Coastal Environment; for 

 fifth and sixth graders, Coastal Live- 

 lihoods and Crafts; for third and 

 fourth graders, Cape Hatteras 

 Lighthouse; and for kindergarten 

 through second graders, Coastal Eco- 

 systems. The lighthouse unit also in- 

 cludes a color filmstrip. 



Several of these units were written 

 by East Carolina University graduate 



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