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Commitments to diversity and inclusivity are fundamental to the Rodriguez Lab and UNC-EMES’s mission.
Not really what Core Banks looks like, but a fun sticker.
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Lesson plans for middle- and high-school teachers that focus on estuarine fish habitats can be found here.
Tag Archives: oyster reef
Restore the IMS shore: Part III
We completed the restoration project after constructing reefs with 3,500 bushels of shell and planting 2,000 bundles of marsh grass. It took 2.5 days with 15 people working, including students, technicians, summer researchers, and faculty. I’m really pleased with the … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon sequestration, oyster reef, restoration, saltmarsh, sea-level rise
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Field trip with PBS QUEST
QUEST joined us in Back Sound, a shallow body of water behind Shackleford Banks, North Carolina, to learn about our work with oyster reefs. We were laser scanning a natural reef that formed on a sandflat in an area that … Continue reading
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Tagged North Carolina, oyster reef, QUEST, Shackleford Banks
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Oyster-reef burial…by wind-blown sand
Last week Ethan, Justin, and Taylor visited that washover fan on Onslow Beach that formed during Hurricane Irene to measure aeolian transport during a wind event. They noticed that backbarrier marsh and oyster reefs were being buried by wind-blown sand. … Continue reading
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Tagged aeolian, Hurricane Irene, marsh, Onslow Beach, oyster reef, saltmarsh, washover
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