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SUMMARY:Green Drinks Morehead City
DESCRIPTION:Green Drinks is a casual monthly gathering for people who care about our coast. Whether you enjoy boating\, beach days\, or simply want to keep our waters clean and our communities strong\, this is a relaxed space to connect with others\, hear from local voices\, and stay up to date on important coastal topics. Each month\, we’ll highlight a different issue—like salt marsh restoration\, oysters\, or local happenings that impact the coast—and talk about how we can work together to protect the places we all enjoy. Grab a drink from the bar and join the conversation—these events are free and open to the public. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho: Anyone who loves our coast! \n\n\n\nWhat: A relaxed\, come-as-you-are meetup featuring a new coastal topic each month \n\n\n\nWhere: Rooftop Bar at Jack’s on the Waterfront – 513 Evans St\, Morehead City\, NC 28557 \n\n\n\nWhen: One Thursday a month from 5:30–7:30 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\nOctober’s Speaker \n\n\n\nMarine Science Researchers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexis Longmire is a final-year PhD candidate in ecology at UNC Chapel Hill’s Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City\, NC. Her dissertation research\, broadly\, asserts that the influence/ “footprint” of estuarine habitats extends beyond their physical borders\, meaning habitat loss (and restoration) can have much greater spatial impacts on neighboring habitats and organisms than initially predicted. Through her work\, Longmire quantifies broad-scale impacts of natural and restored intertidal habitats (i.e.\, oyster reefs and living shorelines) on the spatial distributions of marine invertebrates\, fishes\, and vegetation in intertidal landscapes. In this talk\, Longmire will focus on one of her projects (funded by the NC Coastal Federation) looking at how large-scale (>300 meters long) living shoreline installations affect connectivity between landward\, intertidal habitats and seaward\, subtidal habitats via alterations to predatory fish movement and diversity. She pairs acoustic predator tracking with night-time surveys at multiple NC living shorelines to determine if these structures inhibit predators\, like southern flounder\, red drum\, and sting rays\, from accessing landward foraging and spawning habitats\, and\, if so\, how current construction guidelines can be updated to better balance engineering and ecological needs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTiffany Paalman is a PhD student in the Silliman Lab at the Duke University Marine Lab. She is a field ecologist\, focused on intertidal ecosystem resilience in coastal North Carolina. Her research asks: How do ecological conditions shape the occurrence\, intensity\, and consequences of consumer-mediated disturbance for coastal ecosystem dynamics? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMadison Lytle is a Research Specialist with the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve (NCNERR)\, where she studies how North Carolina’s coastal and estuarine ecosystems change over time. Her work focuses on resilience research and long-term monitoring\, including collecting and analyzing data on water quality\, vegetation\, marshes\, and coastal habitats. In this presentation\, Madison will share examples of how long‑term monitoring\, habitat mapping\, and resilience research at the Reserve help us better understand and protect coastal ecosystems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLily Hare is pursuing a degree in Earth and Marine Science (B.S.) with a concentration in Marine Biology and Ecology at UNC Chapel Hill. She will discuss how prolonged exposure to low-salinity environments can impact bottlenose dolphins\, with a focus on a group inhabiting a quarry in Craven County\, North Carolina. Because low-salinity environments have been associated with freshwater skin disease in some dolphin populations\, the dolphins’ continued presence in the quarry since May raises questions about the potential health effects of prolonged exposure to these conditions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:
URL:https://www.nccoast.org/event/green-drinks-morehead-city-6/
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