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Title: Coast watch
Identifier: coastwatch00uncs_16 (find matches)
Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
Publisher: (Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina
Digitizing Sponsor: North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

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Resource Grant Program, which encourages partnerships between the commercial fishing and academic communities. Such individual projects within the overall expedition have specific research goals, but the data and observations often fit into larger policy issues — such as selecting Marine Protected Areas or identifying essential fish habitats. FROM SEA TO SCHOOL While researchers are studying schools of fish, schools full of children eagerly follow research cruises via the Internet. Paula Keener-Chavis, education coordina- tor of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, is working with the National Undersea Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher, North Carolina Sea Grant and other agencies to help teachers take undersea lessons into more classrooms. During Islands in the Stream, educators gathered at UNC-W to learn more about the expedition and even chat with the scientists onboard, thanks to satellite phone technology. 'This is an exciting new initiative for marine education," says Lundie Spence, former North Carolina Sea Grant marine educator, who now directs the Southeast Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence. (See related stoiy, page 4.) "The Ocean Exploration missions have a mandate to spend 10 percent of funding on education, so this is a significant opportunity for North Carolina schools to get new, lively yet relevant content and materials," adds Andrew Shepard, NURC associate director. Flo Gullickson, a Guilford County high school teacher, says lessons such as "All That Glitters" — which explains bioluminescence — fit her courses. "It is very impressive to see how visible light enters the deep ocean and why animals have certain colorations." Students in her classroom begin to understand the underwater experience that takes the breath away from even a veteran marine educator. Baird saw the light effects on her first dive in the sub — down 2,900 feet at The Point. "We saw just a few fish, but there were lots of amazing shrimp with long flowing antennae. The bioluminescence was incredible. It was like being in a glowing snowstorm," she says. "I love being at sea," she adds. □ Join the World of Ocean Exploration So, you want to be an Ocean Explorer? Check out oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/ to read logs of past voyages. Expeditions this year include: • The "old growth forests" of the Oculina Banks Marine Protected Area off Florida will be the site for an expedition starting in late April that includes a NASA ship normally used to recover space shuttle rockets. • The recovery of artifacts from the USS Monitor continues off" the North Carolina coast this summer. • Seafloor seepage of oil and gas — and the reaction of deep-sea communities — will be explored this summer in the Gulf of Mexico. For details on the 2002 Islands in the Stream mission, you can also go to www. naturalsciences.org and follow links to the education pages with daily logs, curriculum materials, and students' e-mail questions and the researchers' responses. The National Undersea Research Center at UNC-Wilmington enables teachers and students to follow missions in the Aquarius undersea lab off Florida. Go to www.uncw.edu/nurc. COASTWATCH 29

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