COASTAL 



TIDINGS 



NC Aquariums Earn National Designation 



The North 

 Carolina Aquariums 

 recently received an elite 

 designation: "Coastal 

 Ecosystem Learning 

 Center" (CELC) from the 

 Coastal America program. 

 The partnership of 12 

 federal agencies is working 

 to protect, preserve and 

 restore America's coastal 

 resources and watersheds. 



The three N.C. 

 Aquariums — at Roanoke 

 Island, Fort Fisher and 

 Pine Knoll Shores — are the 18th CELC to 

 receive the designation since 1996, and the first 

 multiple-site organization to be honored. 



"We're delighted to be included in this 

 forward-thinking network," says David Griffin, 

 director of the North Carolina Aquariums 

 Division. "This designation will make it 



Students from Carolina Beach Elementary 

 offered a skit to close the ceremony. 



possible for us to deliver 

 our conservation message 

 to far more people, far 

 more effectively, than ever 

 before." 



A ceremony, held at 

 the Fort Fisher Aquarium in 

 January, highlighted what 

 the North Carolina CELC 

 could expect from its new 

 federal partners: unique 

 access to expert speakers, 

 exhibit information, 

 educational publications, 

 teaching and training 

 materials, field trip sites, and scientific data 

 from around the country. 



U.S. Rep. Mike Mclntyre (NC 7th 

 District) was among the state and federal 

 dignitaries who cited pride in the N.C. 

 Aquariums for the example they set within the 

 state and across the country. - K. M . 



Carteret Teacher Honored 



Each year, East Carteret High School teacher Barbara Waters introduces her students to a 

 variety of coastal experiences — from exhibits at the N.C. Mantime Museum to trips on university 

 research boats. 



To honor her contnbutions to marine education, Waters received the 2004 Mid-Atlantic Manne 

 Educators Association Teacher of the Year Award. Each year, the award is given to an outstanding 

 teacher by peers. 



"Barbara continuously seeks out professional development opportunities and takes the 

 information back to the classroom for her students to benefit from," says Amy Sauls, coastal 

 education specialist for the N.C. Coastal Reserve Program. "She also helps and encourages students 

 to excel, and makes scholarship suggestions and many other opportunities available to students." 



Waters has worked as a science, marine biology and earth science teacher at East Carteret High 

 for 1 years. In this position, she has volunteered as a National Ocean Science Bowl coach for several 

 years. In 2003, the Carteret team won first place in the Blue Heron Bowl, the state competition. Last 

 year, the team placed second. — A.G. 



Ballast Water 

 Technology 

 Earns Honors 



New technologies to treat ballast 

 water, developed in part with funding from 

 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

 Administrations's (NOAA) invasive species 

 program, took honors in The Wall Street 

 Journal's first "Global Technology Innovation 

 Awards." 



The awards recognize technological 

 breakthroughs by individuals, companies 

 and organizations around the world in 1 2 

 categories, including medicine, software, 

 security and transportation. 



In the environmental category, 

 Nutech-0 3 was a runner-up for its ozone- 

 based treatment to remove aquatic invasive 

 species from ballast water. Nutech-0 3 

 and its academic partners — including Bill 

 Cooper of the University of North Carolina 

 at Wilmington — have received several grant 

 awards over the past three years from the 

 Ballast WaterTechnology Demonstration 

 Program and the NOAA Sea Grant Aquatic 

 Invasive Species Research Program. 



The ozone research projects were fea- 

 tured in the Holiday 2003 issue of Coastwatch. 



The first-place winner in the 

 environmental category also has received 

 NOAA funding. Ferrate Technologies 

 LLC won for its work to develop ferrate- 

 based wastewater and industrial effluence 

 treatment without toxic byproducts. This 

 group received a 2004 grant from NOAA 

 through the Ballast WaterTechnology 

 Demonstration Program to adapt this 

 technology to ballast water treatment. 



'Through these awards, The Wall Street 

 Journal seeks to recognize innovation — and 

 each of these winners embodies the creative 

 thinking that enabled them to rise the top of 

 their respective industries," said Karen Elliott 

 House, publisher, The Wall Street Journal, and 

 senior vice president, DowJones& Company. 



- K.M. 



In the Next Issue of Coastwatch 



Wm Smith considers the socio-economics of commercial fishing in North Carolina. 

 Meanwhile, Ann Green checks in with river and harbor pilots at the state ports. 

 And Kathleen Angione joins a shrimp bycatch research expedition. 



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