COASTAL 



TIDINGS 



Blackbeard Artifacts on Display 



In 1 996, divers brought up the first 

 artifacts from Blackbeard's famous flagship 

 Queen Anne's Revenge. 



Those artifacts, which included a bell, 

 pewter plate and cannon balls, are on 

 display in a traveling exhibit at the N.C 

 Maritime Museum in Beaufort until May. 



You also can see navigational and 

 medical instruments found on the infamous 

 pirate's flagship at the museum's permanent 

 Blackbeard display that is open year-round. 



To make more space for Blackbeard's 

 artifacts and more effectively curate the 



collection, the museum is renovating space 

 in another building at the Gallants Channel 

 site in Beaufort. 



Some restored artifacts will be on 

 view there on a limited basis. 



For more information, call 252/728- 

 731 7 or visit the museum's Web site: 

 www.ah.dcr.state. nc. us/ sections/ maritime. 



To find out more about Blackbeard, 

 Queen Anne's Revenge and related materials, 

 click on: blackbeard.eastnet.ecu. edu/ 

 main.html, or www.ah.dcr.state.nc. 

 us/qar/. — A.G. 



Sign of the Times 



Travelers in North Carolina are 

 becoming more aware of their environ- 

 mental whereabouts — and the impor- 

 tance of water quality — thanks to a 

 partnership between two state agencies. 



The N.C. Department of Environ- 

 ment and Natural Resources (DENR) 

 received nearly $150,000 from the N.C. 

 Department of Transportation (DOT) to 

 install highway signs that designate river 

 basin boundaries along major roads and 

 tributaries from Manteo to Murphy. 



The river basin signs are part of 

 DENR's "Know Your Ecological 

 Address" program, designed to increase 

 the public's understanding of their 

 connection to natural systems. The 2000 



state highway map highlighted the river 

 basin boundaries and provided a toll-free 

 number for additional ecological 

 information. 



According to Anne Taylor, director 

 of the Office of Environmental Educa- 

 tion, "No matter where you are in North 

 Carolina, you are in one of the state's 17 

 river basins." 



River basin signs already have been 

 installed in the Neuse, Cape Fear and Tar- 

 Pamlico river basins. Once the statewide 

 program has been implemented, officials 

 hope to pursue agreements with neighbor- 

 ing states to extend the identifying sign 

 program throughout river basins that 

 cross state lines. — P.S. 



High Point Teens 

 Win Ocean Bowl 



Southwestern High School of 

 High Point took top honors in the 

 2001 North Carolina Ocean Science 

 Bowl. The first-place win means that 

 the team and coach Florence 

 Gullickson will advance to the 

 National Science Bowl Tournament 

 in Miami Beach April 2-3. 



In a close second-place finish 

 was the three-time state champion, 

 Walter Williams High School in 

 Burlington. Team members and 

 coach Leslie Haines earned a cruise 

 on the marine research vessel Cape 

 Hatteras. 



The third place team was from 

 Washington High School in 

 Washington, coached by Clay 

 Campbell. 



The top three teams each won a 

 saltwater canoe trip donated by the 

 N.C. Coastal Federation. 



Eighteen teams competed in 

 the fourth annual regional event, 

 held Jan. 28 at the University of 

 North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 

 Friday Center. 



The Ocean Science Bowl was 

 inaugurated in 1998, The Year of the 

 Ocean, as a way to re-energize 

 precollege educational programs in 

 the marine sciences. 



The N.C. Ocean Science Bowl is 

 coordinated by the Consortium for 

 Oceanographic Research and 

 Education (CORE), which includes 

 NC State University, East Carolina 

 University, the University of North 

 Carolina at Wilmington and the 

 University of North Carolina at 

 Chapel Hill. Support also comes 

 from North Carolina Sea Grant, the 

 UNC Math and Science Education 

 Network and Centers, the N.C. 

 Coastal Federation and NC State's 

 Science House. —P.S. 



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