North Carolina Coast

Exploring Your Backyard

The NC Department of Transportation prints the "North Carolina Coastal Boating Guide".
It's free, and a superb teaching resource from ncwaterways.com.

Print these: NC Coastal Boating Guide Assignment , and NC Coast Water Types and Blank Maps.
Follow the directions in the assignment, and bring your marked-up blank maps to class.

Some Important Issues in North Carolina

• Barrier Island Processes and Beach Erosion
• Outer Banks Development
  • loss of fishing culture
  • habitat destruction
• Oyster Restoration in Pamlico Sound
• Blue Crab Fishery website for grades 9-12
• Navy SONAR
• Offshore Oil Drilling
• Bacterial Contamination on Beaches

Web Resources

• North Carolina Sea Grant
• Hans Paerl on Eutrophication

• Partnership for the Sounds
• NC Coastal Federation
• The Nature Conservancy, NC
• Coastal Conservation Association, NC
• The Ocean Conservancy
• Surfrider Foundation

• Division of Coastal Mangement
• Division of Marine Fisheries
• Division of Water Quality