Green: New 

 CMAST Director 



The Center for Marine 

 Science (CMAST) in Morehead 

 City has a new resident director at 

 its helm. David Green, associate 

 professor of food science and 

 extension seafood specialist at 

 North Carolina State University, 

 took over the position in January. 



He replaces Thurman Grove, 

 professor and department head of 

 zoology at NC State. 



Green has more than 14 

 years experience as director of the 

 NC State Seafood Laboratory in 

 Morehead and has a working 

 relationship with university and 

 coastal marine programs and 

 community leaders. He also has 

 conducted numerous applied 

 research and marine extension 

 projects for North Carolina Sea 

 Grant. 



Green will oversee the move 

 this summer into the new CMAST 

 facility on the campus of Carteret 

 Community College. 



The center will provide 

 offices, classrooms and research 

 space for NC State scientists and 

 educators, Carteret Community 

 College faculty and students, 

 North Carolina Sea Grant 

 extension staff, and Carteret 

 County Cooperative Extension 

 Service faculty and staff. — A.G. 



COASTAL 



TIDINGS 



Sea Grant Researcher Receives DOT 

 Grant to Restore Urban Stream 



Barbara Doll, water quality specialist 

 with North Carolina Sea Grant, has received 

 a $1 .6 million grant from the North Carolina 

 Department of Transportation for the Rocky 

 Branch restoration project she is spearhead- 

 ing. The creek runs more than a mile through 

 the heart of the North Carolina State 

 University campus and drains into Walnut 

 Creek, a major tributary of the Neuse River. 

 In 1978 the Division of Water Quality 

 classified Rocky Branch as the state's most 

 polluted urban stream. 



Doll has collaborated closely with the 

 university's Facilities Planning and Design 

 Department to develop the design and 

 secure funding for the $4.6 million project. 

 She says the grant, part of DOTs federal 

 enhancement allocation, will give a major 

 boost to the comprehensive plan. The goals 

 are to stabilize the degraded stream, improve 

 water quality, and build a greenway through 

 the campus. 



Expansion of the riparian corridor along 

 the stream should improve water quality and 

 increase habitat for urban wildlife, while the 

 6,1 00-foot greenway will provide recreation 

 space and a transportation alternative. 



The new grant will be used for greenway 

 construction and landscaping and the 



expansion of two key roadway crossings. 



Ronald Hodson, North Carolina Sea 

 Grant director, says "I am proud of Barbara's 

 leadership in a project that could become a 

 model for urban stream restoration. If there 

 is one thing recent hurricane seasons taught 

 us, it's that whatever we do upstream has an 

 impact on what happens downstream along 

 our rivers, in our estuaries and ultimately at 

 our coast." 



The Rocky Branch Project will employ 

 natural channel design techniques and 

 innovative stormwater controls that offer 

 greater long-term stability. 



Urban development has taken its toll on 

 creeks, streams and rivers across the nation, 

 Doll says. Parking lots, roads and rooftops 

 cause stormwater to course through stream 

 channels, causing the erosion of stream 

 banks, which can contribute a large portion 

 of sediment load in many stream systems. 



Culvert pipe, concrete and riprap used 

 to control erosion accelerates flow, often 

 transferring erosion problems downstream. 



The DOT grant augments more than 

 $1 .8 million Doll helped secure to implement 

 the project. It will take an additional $1.1 

 million to complete the stream restoration 

 component of the project. — P.S. 



Four North Carolina Scholars Win 



lour scholars from North Carolina are working in Washington, 

 D.C., after being selected as 2000 Dean John A. Knauss Fellows. 

 Created in 1 979, the fellowship offers a unique educational experience 

 to students with an interest in marine, ocean and Great Lakes re- 

 sources, and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources. 



The fellowship, sponsored by the National Sea Grant College 

 Program, matches highly qualified graduate students with hosts in the 

 legislative or executive branches of the federal government. 



North Carolina recipients are TanyaJ. Dobrzynski, Matthew C. 

 Huggler, Daniel Lyons and Elizabeth E. Nicholson. 



Dobrzynksi, who speaks Spanish, is completing a master's degree 

 in environmental management at Duke University's Nicholas School of 

 the Environment. Last summer, she served as a Marine Reserves Intern 

 with the Environmental Defense Fund, researching social, economic 

 and policy issues related to a national marine reserves policy initiative. 

 Dobrzynski is assigned to the National Marine Fisheries Service, Office 

 of Habitat Conservation. 



Daniel Lyons 



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SPRING 2000 



