. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Budding Scientists: Teens Join Cutting-Edge Research By Ann Green Photographs by Michael Halmlnski. K Lristi Herzer stands knee-deep in the Pamlico Sound near Oregon Inlet, using a vacuum-like hose to suck up aquatic creatures from sea-grass beds. "After you finish the sweep, use the dip net to make sure there are no more jumping crabs," yells Lisa Etherington, a North Carolina Sea Grant researcher and NC State University graduate student. With the help of NC State researchers, Herzer, a Manteo H
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Budding Scientists: Teens Join Cutting-Edge Research By Ann Green Photographs by Michael Halmlnski. K Lristi Herzer stands knee-deep in the Pamlico Sound near Oregon Inlet, using a vacuum-like hose to suck up aquatic creatures from sea-grass beds. "After you finish the sweep, use the dip net to make sure there are no more jumping crabs," yells Lisa Etherington, a North Carolina Sea Grant researcher and NC State University graduate student. With the help of NC State researchers, Herzer, a Manteo High School senior, dumps the collection on board a small boat. Then she examines the samples — from juvenile crabs as small as a quarter to tiny shrimp. Herzer finds her first field research experience "fun and exciting. I didn't realize there are so many living creatures in sea-grass ; From August to October, Herzer and 26 other budding scientists from Ocracoke School and Hatteras, Manteo, Mattamuskeet and East Cartaret High Schools gather samples each day for North Carolina Sea Grant researcher David Eggleston's study on juvenile crabs. "It is interesting to find results that might be in a textbook some day," says Manteo High School senior Chucky Ellison. Since 1995, Eggleston has been involving high school students in his ongoing study on the recruitment of juvenile blue crabs. The study is funded by the National Science Foundation, North Carolina Sea Grant and the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. The integration of high school students has been a "win-win situation" and "critical to the success of this large-scale study," says Eggleston, associate professor of marine sciences at NC State. "With their help, we have identified unique and until now undocumented nursery habitats for early juvenile crabs, as well as the role of hurricane storm surges and northeasterlies on transporting large numbers of settlement-stage blue crabs
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