Coastwatch 



COASTAL 



TIDINGS 



Managing Editor 

 Katie Mosher 



Senior Editors 

 Kathleen Angione 

 Ann Green 

 Pam Smith 



Contributing Editors 

 Jamie Harris 

 Lilly Loughner 

 ErinSeiling 



Designer 

 L. Noble 



Circulation Manager 

 Sandra Harris 



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. 

 E-mail: katie_mosher@ncsu.edu 

 World Wide Web address: 

 http:/Avww.ncseagrcmt.org 

 Periodical Postage paid at Raleigh, N.C. 



POSTMASTER: Send address changes to 



Coastwatch North Carolina Sea Grant, 

 North Carolina State University, Box 8605. 

 Raleigh. NC 27695-8605. 



Sea Grant Science Fellow Named 



Crin Seiling of Raleigh is the 

 2005-06 Science Communications 

 Fellow for North Carolina Sea 

 Grant. 



In the one-year 

 fellowship, Seiling will develop 

 communications products for 

 the N.C. Fishery Resources Grant 

 Program and the N.C. Blue 

 Crab Research Program. The two programs, 

 funded by the N.C. General Assembly and 

 administered by Sea Grant, highlight fishery 

 and habitat topics that are important, not only 

 along the North Carolina coast, but across the 

 state in terms of economic and environmental 

 value. 



A native of Gates County, Seiling holds 

 a bachelor's degree in zoology from North 

 Carolina State University and a master's degree 

 in environmental management from Duke 

 University. 



As an NC State undergraduate, she 



Erin Seiling 



completed a coastal processes class 

 at Morehead City. 



"In the class, I was inspired 

 to concentrate on coastal 

 management. We took field 

 trips across the North and South 

 Carolina coasts," Seiling says. "At 

 Sea Grant, I am looking forward to 

 writing and communicating with 

 different groups from the coast." 



Seiling has conducted research for the 

 Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and 

 the N.C. Coastal Federation. She also worked as 

 a weekend coordinator at the N.C. Museum of 

 Natural Sciences. 



"The fellowship will enable Sea Grant to 

 use Erin's coastal ecology expertise and museum 

 experience to create innovative communication 

 products for the Fishery Resource Grant Program 

 and Blue Crab Program — and share them with 

 the public," says Ronald G. Hodson, North 

 Carolina Sea Grant director. — A.G. 



Knauss Fellow Takes Award 



Kat 



ath erine Eschelbach, 

 a 2005 Knauss Fellow, was 

 tapped for the Walter B. Jones Sr. 

 Memorial/NOAA Excellence Award 

 for Coastal and Ocean Resource 

 Management in the Coastal and 

 Manne Graduate Study category. 

 The award recognizes student 

 achievements that contribute to the 

 development of new or improved approaches 

 to coastal or ocean management. 



Eschelbach is a 2004 graduate of the 

 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with 

 a master's degree in regional planning. 



For her master's project, she conducted a 



Katherine Eschelbach 



statewide natural hazards risk 

 assessment. Her results played 

 a fundamental role in advising 

 statewide policy formulation for 

 the North Carolina natural hazards 

 mitigation plan. She also led a haz- 

 ard mitigation planning project to 

 analyze flood damage-prevention 

 policies at a river basin scale for the 

 UNC Department of City and Regional Planning. 



Eschelbach is one of four North Carolina 

 scholars selected for the 2005 Dean John A. 

 Knauss Marine Policy fellowships. She is serving 

 as an executive fellow with the NOAA Oceans 

 Biogeography Program. — P.S. 



Sea (rat 



North Carolina 



Cover photo by Michael Prince, 

 courtesy of N. C. Aquariums. 

 Table of Contents photo of boats 

 by Michael Halminski. 

 Printed on recycled paper. ® 



In the Next Issue of Coastwatch 



"Teachers find personal renewal during a sailboat trip in Beaufort Inlet. 

 Ann Green takes readers along on the ride. Kathleen Angione explores an oyster shell 

 recycling effort in Carteret County funded by the N.C. Fishery Resource Grant Program. 

 And just in time for fall planting, Pam Smith introduces readers to native coastal plants. 



2 HIGH SEASON 2005 



