Coastwatch 



Managing Editor 

 Katie Mosher 



Senior Editors 

 Ann Green 

 Pain Smith 



Contributing Editors 

 Kathleen Angione, Lilly Loughner 



Designer 

 L. Noble 



Circulation Manager 

 Sandra Hams 



The North Carolina Sea Grant College Program 



is a federal/state program that promotes 

 stewardship of our coastal and marine resources 



through research, extension and education. 

 It joined the National Sea Grant College Network 

 in 1970 as an institutional program. Six years later. 



it was designated a Sea Grant College. 

 Today, North Carolina Sea Grant supports research 

 projects, a 15-member extension program and a 

 communications staff. Ron Hodson is director. 

 The program is funded by the U.S. Department 

 of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

 Administration and the state through the 

 University of North Carolina. 

 Coastwatch (ISSN 1068-784X) 

 is published six times a year by the 

 North Carolina Sea Grant College Program, 

 North Carolina State University, Box 8605. 

 Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8605. 

 Telephone: 919/515-2454. Fax: 919/515-7095. 

 Subscriptions are $15. 

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Cover photo of River Dunes development 

 by Scott Taylor. Table of Contents art from a 

 photo of shrimp by Paul Stephen. 

 Printed on recycled paper. © 



Four Knauss Fellows Head to D.C. 



lour North 

 Carolina scholars 

 are heading for the 

 nation's capital 

 as Deanjohn A. 

 Knauss Marine Policy 

 Fellows. They will 

 spend the coming 

 year learning about 

 federal policy-making 

 processes that affect 

 the ocean, coastal 

 and Great Lakes 

 resources. 



They are 

 Sarah Can-, a 

 doctoral candidate 



in marine sciences 

 at the University of 



North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Institute of Marine 

 Sciences; Elizabeth English, a candidate in a 

 joint public policy-environmental management 

 master's degree program at Duke University's 

 Nicholas School of Environment and Earth 

 Sciences; Katherine Eschelbach, who earned 

 a master's degree in regional planning at the 

 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and 

 Stephen Workman, a doctoral candidate in 

 coastal resource management at East Carolina 

 University. 



The fellowship, valued at $40,000, is 

 sponsored by the National Sea Grant College 

 Program. 



• Sarah Carr, who was selected as 

 an executive fellow, will work in the U.S. 

 Environmental Protection Agency's Office of 

 Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds. 



Carr graduated magna cum laude with a 

 bachelor's degree in economics from Amherst 

 College in 1997. 



For her doctoral work at UNC, she is using 

 ultrasonic telemetry to develop models of the 

 movements of spawning female blue crabs in a 

 North Carolina estuary — information critical for 

 siting spawning sanctuaries. 



• Elizabeth English, who was selected as an 

 executive fellow, will work in the National Oceanic 

 and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 

 Fisheries' Office of Sustainable Fisheries as its 



STANDING: Elizabeth English and Sarah Carr 

 SEATED: Katherine Eschelbach and Stephen Workman 



International Affairs 

 Coordination Fellow. 



English earned 

 a bachelor's degree 

 in environmental 

 policy from Boston 

 University in 1999. 



As a student in 

 Duke's joint degree 

 program, English 

 worked on a team 

 in partnership with 

 the North Carolina 

 Zoological Park. The 

 students analyzed 

 the effect of rural 

 sprawl on sustainable 

 development in 

 the region. County 

 commissioners are using their model as a 

 blueprint for planning initiatives. 



• Katherine Eschelbach, who was selected 

 as an executive fellow, will be part of the NOAA 

 Oceans Biogeography Program. 



Eschelbach earned bachelor's degrees in 

 biology and environmental studies at Denision 

 University in 2001. 



Much of her work at UNC focused on 

 hazard mitigation planning. She led a project 

 to conduct a risk assessment for all of North 

 Carolina. Results provided the basis for the 

 state's flood-hazard mitigation plan. 



• Stephen Workman was selected as a 

 legislative fellow and will work in the office of U.S. 

 Rep. Wayne Gilchrist (R-Md.), who chairs the 

 House Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 

 Wildlife and Oceans. 



Workman earned a bachelor's degree in 

 business administration from Minnesota State 

 University in 1 973. He was commissioned as 

 an officer in the U.S. Navy in 1 978 and spent 

 much of his 23-year career in the intelligence 

 field. During that time, he also earned a master's 

 degree in government from Georgetown 

 University. 



At ECU, Workman earned a master's 

 degree in maritime history and nautical 

 archeology before entering the doctoral program 

 in coastal resources management. — P.S. 



2 WINTER 2005 



