on the way to a recovery. 



This past summer, Seneca was awar- 

 ded the Gulf Oil Corporation Conser- 

 vation Award for 1982 for his work in 

 France, similar work along the North 

 Carolina coast and his work with stu- 

 dents on campus. This prestigious 

 award is given each year to 10 

 professionals and 10 non-professionals 

 who do work in the field of conserva- 

 tion. Each recipient is given a cash 

 award, a bronze plaque and a pin. 

 Seneca couldn't attend the awards 

 ceremony this summer in Washington, 

 D.C. because of a return trip to France 

 to restore another coastal area. 



Seneca's Sea Grant work, which he 

 conducted with Steve Broome and 

 W. W. Woodhouse, Jr. of NCSU's 

 Department of Soil Science, has led to 

 two Sea Grant publications, Planting 

 Marsh Grasses for Erosion Control 

 and Building and Stabilizing 

 Coastal Dunes with Vegetation. 



Lundie Spence, UNC Sea Grant's 

 marine education specialist, was 

 named president-elect of the National 

 Marine Education Association at its 

 annual meeting in San Diego in 

 August. She was elected to the position 

 by 1400 fellow marine educators. She 

 will succeed Prentice Stout, the marine 

 education specialist for the University 

 of Rhode Island Sea Grant Program, 

 as president in 1983. 



Want to learn how to 

 cast a line, build a trap 

 or photograph a wild 

 animal? Plan to attend 

 National Hunting and 

 Fishing Day activities, 

 to be held September 25, 

 from noon to 6 p.m., at the N.C. 

 Marine Resources Center on Roanoke 

 Island. The event is being sponsored 

 by the Pea Island National Wildlife 

 Refuge and the center. Admission is 

 free. 



Lundie Spence, UNC Sea Grant's 

 marine education specialist, will be on 

 hand to present a program on sharks 

 and to cook a shark casserole for the 

 group to sample. A representative 

 from the Smithsonian Institute will 

 talk about marine- mammal 

 strandings. And, there will be 

 demonstrations on fishing, trapping, 

 hunting, training dogs, photographing 

 wildlife and more. 



If you're interested in contributing a 



display about outdoor recreation or in 

 demonstrating a special technique — 

 say, fly-tying, duck-calling or bait- 

 rigging — call Bonnie Woodall at the 

 Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, 

 (919) 987-2394. 



Jim Murray, UNC Sea Grant's 

 Marine Advisory Services (MAS) 

 director, was elected chairman of the 

 MAS leaders at a meeting of the Sea 

 Grant Association in Washington, 

 D.C. in July. He will be responsible for 

 arranging next year's MAS agenda for 

 the association meeting in San Antonio 

 and serving as a spokesman to the 

 Council of Sea Grant Directors. 



Hurricanes got lots of 

 attention from the media 

 during Hurricane 

 Awareness Week, 

 August 2-5, and Sea 

 Grant people figured in 

 several of the stories and 

 newscasts. John Sanders, Sea Grant's 

 weather awareness specialist, appeared 

 on a number of TV news shows, ex- 

 plaining the forces of hurricanes and 

 how people can prepare for them. 

 Spencer Rogers, Sea Grant's coastal 

 engineer, and John Stone, a NCSU 



civil engineer who recently completed 

 a Sea Grant study on hurricane 

 evacuation, also served as sources for 

 several news stories and telecasts dur- 

 ing the week. 



Cassie Griffin, of Sea Grant's com- 

 munication's staff, appeared on a 

 Havelock cable-television program, in- 

 terviewing students from Pamlico 

 Junior High. The students talked 

 about the things they had done to 

 prepare their families for a hurricane. 



Sea Grant Today, 

 published by the 

 National Sea Grant 

 College Program, is free 

 for the asking. This 

 bimonthly publication, 

 which is aimed especially 

 at industry, includes articles written 

 by communicators, researchers, 

 marine advisory agents and educators 

 throughout the Sea Grant network. A 

 list of new Sea Grant publications is 

 also included in each issue. 



For your free subscription, write 

 Sea Grant Today, Food Science and 

 Technology Building, Virginia Tech, 

 Blacksburg, VA 24061. 



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