COASTAL 



TIDINGS 



I he giant squid has 

 populated legends, fiction, 

 horror movies and probably 

 plenty of nightmares. But more 

 than a century after it was 

 featured in the pages of 20,000 

 Leagues Under the Sea, the 

 surprising truth is that this 

 creature of the deep never has 

 been observed in its natural 

 habitat. 



Scientists do not know how 

 giant squids eat, rest, court, 

 mate, swim or behave. They 

 don't know if they are mid-water 

 dwellers or bottom inhabitants. 

 To learn more about this sea 

 creature, the Smithsonian 

 Institution is mounting a $5 

 million expedition to observe the 

 giant squid in its natural habitat 

 in the South Pacific near New 

 Zealand. - K.H. □ 



Extension Director 

 Takes National Job 



After 16 years as North Carolina 

 Sea Grant's extension director, Jim Murray 

 is moving up in Sea Grant. He has joined 

 the National Sea 

 Grant office in 

 Silver Spring, 

 Md., as director 

 of the Sea Grant 

 Extension 

 Program. 



In his new 

 position, Murray 

 will be respon- 

 sible for manag- 

 ing extension 

 program grants 

 and for oversee- 

 ing Sea Grant 

 communications, 

 education 

 programs, and 

 extension and 

 marine advisory 

 services. 



"We're very 

 happy to have 



him join Sea Grant's national program 

 office," says Ron Baird, director of the 

 National Sea Grant College Program. 



With 22 years in the Sea Grant 

 network — including jobs in Minnesota, 

 New York and New Jersey — Murray is 

 considered one of the best extension 

 directors in the 29 coastal and Great Lakes 

 states. He has made North Carolina a leader 



in Sea Grant extension programs, especially 

 in research of bycatch reduction devices 

 (BRDs) and turtle excluder devices (TEDs). 



"He's good 



^^^m ^*r« bec ause ne can 



BET ^ ^fl make that 



JH connection 

 between what 

 needs to be done 

 to get information 

 out or solve a 

 problem and put 

 that into action," 

 says Ron Hodson, 

 North Carolina 

 Sea Grant's 

 interim director. 



The key 

 to his many 

 successes is 

 involving the 

 people affected 

 by a particular 

 policy or rule and 

 persuading them 

 to take a role in 

 developing it, Hodson says. 



Throughout his career with Sea 

 Grant's extension program, Murray has 

 been active at both the regional and national 

 levels, serving twice as the national chair of 

 the Assembly of Sea Grant Extension 

 Program Leaders and also as chair of both 

 the Southeast and mid- Atlantic Sea Grant 

 networks. — J.F.N. □ 



Jim Murray 



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EARLY SUMMER 1998 



