Coastwatch 



Managing Editor 

 Katie Mosher 



Senior Editors 

 Ann Green 

 Pam Smith 



Contributing Editor 

 Cynthia Henderson Vega 



Designer 

 L. Noble 



Circulation Manager 

 Sandra Harris 



The North Carolina Sea Grant College 

 Program is a federal/state program that 

 promotes the wise use 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 several research projects, 

 a 1 2-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: kmosher@unity.ncsu.edu. 

 World Wide Web address: 

 http://www.ncsu.edu/seagrant 

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COASTAL 



TIDINGS 



Sealant 



North Carolina 



Front cover photo of hand full of clams 



and table of contents photo 

 of Cape Fear River by Scott D. Taylor. 

 Printed on recycled paper. ® 



New Book Captures Seashore Beauty 



if winter 

 months have 

 you longing 

 for a walk 

 along the 

 shore, Coastal 

 Carolina Press 

 has just 

 released what 

 could be 

 considered the 

 next best thing 

 to being there 

 — Coastal 

 Waters: Images 

 of North 

 Carolina by 

 Scott Taylor. 



Taylor, 

 whose photo- 

 graphs have 

 livened 



Coastwatch pages through the years, has 

 chosen images he captured over the past 

 two decades in and around Core Sound, 

 Cape Lookout, Swansboro, Beaufort, 

 Shackleford Banks, Ocracoke, Cedar 

 Island and Portsmouth. 



Dolphins and wild ponies frolic in the 

 surf, gulls circle a trawler returning with the 

 day's catch, and oysters peek from a tidal 

 creek bottom as reminders of the coast's 

 diversity. In all, 90 photographs reveal 

 both the tranquil and stormy beauty of the 

 edge of the sea. 



The book has caught the eye of North 

 Carolina outdoors author Bland Simpson, 

 who calls Taylor "one of the premier visual 

 interpreters of our coast's natural and 

 human world." 



For those tempted to cut pages from 

 the book for framing, the publisher has an 

 option. Two groups of prints — "Along the 

 Shore" and "At the Edge of the Sea" - offer 

 four, ready-for-framing 1 1 "x14" images. 



The book is $25.95; the prints are $1 8 

 per set. For more information, call Coastal 

 Carolina Press at 877/81 7-9900. - P.S. 



In the Next Issue of Coastwatch 



Fam Smith tags along with East Carolina University students as they translate 

 their classroom studies of fisheries techniques to hands-on experience at the ECU 

 Field Station for Coastal Studies at Lake Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge 

 in Hyde County. Ann Green takes readers on a tour of some of the state's 

 remaining drawbridges and the pontoon bridge at Sunset Beach. 



2 WINTER 2001 



