Spencer Rogers, was chosen by the 

 Sea Grant staff as Agent/Specialist of 

 the Year. Jim Murray, director of ad- 

 visory services, says Rogers received 

 the award for outstanding develop- 

 ment and implementation of his ex- 

 tension program. Rogers developed 

 programs that helped coastal com- 

 munities solve shoreline engineering 

 problems. 



UNC Sea Grant 

 Director B.J. Copeland 

 says he would like to see 

 more North Carolina re- 

 searchers involved in de- 

 veloping the nation's 

 ocean policy. Ocean 

 policy involves studying the inter- 

 national use of our oceans and the 

 questions of territorial rights. 



Copeland has provided project in- 

 itiation funds for a new North Caroli- 

 na Marine Policy Fellowship Program 

 that will be administered through the 

 Institute for Coastal and Marine Re- 

 sources at East Carolina University 

 (ECU). The first fellowship will be 

 awarded to a student in the ECU De- 

 partment of Sociology, Anthropology 

 and Economics under the direction of 

 Michael Orbach, a noted ocean policy 

 researcher. 



The fellowship program will train 

 top students in marine policy, provid- 

 ing leaders that will help solve 

 tomorrow's ocean-use problems. 



Xo keep abreast of the latest in es- 

 tuarine research, the National Oceanic 

 and Atmospheric Administration 

 (NOAA) sponsored a national three- 



day conference at the University of 

 Delaware at Newark, June 21-23. 

 Component members of NOAA, such 

 as the Sea Grant Program and the 

 National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 provided updates on their estuarine 

 research efforts. 



B.J. Copeland, UNC Sea Grant 

 director, moderated a session on the 

 problems facing estuarines in the Un- 

 ited States and the Sea Grant research 

 being funded to combat those 

 problems. 



The conference will be followed with 

 a National Estuarine Symposium that 

 will be held in Raleigh next year. 



Frank Thomas, of the 

 NCSU Department of 

 Food Science, and Sam 

 Thomas, a Sea Grant 

 Seafood specialist, have 

 revised the Technical 

 Operations Manual 

 for the Blue Crab Industry. The 

 manual is designed to help processors 

 produce high quality crab meat. This 

 second edition reflects regulatory 

 changes in blue crab processing since 

 the original edition was published. For 

 a copy, send $1.50 to UNC Sea Grant, 

 Box 5001, Raleigh, N.C. 27650. Ask 

 for UNC-SG-83-02. 



It's that time of year again — 

 hurricane season. And this just may be 

 the year when another Hazel comes to 

 call. Are you prepared? 



Send for the new brochure, About 

 Hurricanes, what to do and when 

 to leave. The brochure tells you what 

 to expect when a hurricane strikes, 

 how to plan ahead, what to do if one is 



forecast, and what to do after the 

 storm has passed. The brochure also 

 provides a large tracking map that can 

 be used to follow the progress of this 

 season's hurricanes. 



The brochure was published by Sea 

 Grant, the N.C. Division of 

 Emergency Management and the N.C. 

 Office of Coastal Management. John 

 Sanders, Sea Grant's former coastal 

 weather awareness specialist, acted as 

 an advisor for the project. 



For a free copy of the. colorful 

 brochure, write Sea Grant. Ask for 

 About Hurricanes. 



Hurricane Emergency Plan- 

 ning: Estimating Evacuation 

 Times for Non-Metropolitan 

 Coastal Communities, by John 

 Stone of the NCSU Department of 

 Civil Engineering, is written to give 

 emergency planners in coastal com- 

 munities simplified methods for es- 

 timating hurricane evacuation times. 

 For a copy of the publication, send 

 $1.50 to UNC Sea Grant. Ask for 

 UNC-SG-WP-83-2. 



Coastwatch is published monthly 

 except July and December by the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina Sea Grant 

 College Program, 105 1911 Building, 

 North Carolina State University, 

 Raleigh, NC 27650-5001. Vol. 10, No. 

 6, June/July, 1983. Dr. B.J. Copeland, 

 director. Neil Caudle, editor. Kathy 

 Hart and Nancy Davis, staff writers. 

 Second-class postage paid at Raleigh, 

 NC 27611. 



COASTWATCH 



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