. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Early seafood technology researchers included, from left, Frank Thomas, the late Donald Hamann, Tyre Lanier and Allen Chao. File Photo by Allen Weiu Filling Niches Copeland, whose first North Carolina Sea Grant research was a project with NC State colleague John Hobbie that looked at nutrients in the Pamlico estuary, was named program director in 1973. This meant the North Carolina's Sea Grant headquarters moved to Raleigh. His goal? Full Sea Grant College Program designation — based on a record of excelle
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Early seafood technology researchers included, from left, Frank Thomas, the late Donald Hamann, Tyre Lanier and Allen Chao. File Photo by Allen Weiu Filling Niches Copeland, whose first North Carolina Sea Grant research was a project with NC State colleague John Hobbie that looked at nutrients in the Pamlico estuary, was named program director in 1973. This meant the North Carolina's Sea Grant headquarters moved to Raleigh. His goal? Full Sea Grant College Program designation — based on a record of excellence in research, extension and communication — in the minimum time, just three years. Copeland recalls July 1,1973, when his staff included only Rickards, who later became director of the Virginia Sea Grant program, and secretary Louise Bame. "I was told to write a proposal and submit it by August 1. We had no extension advisors and no communicators. So we set about getting the word out that we were in business," Copeland says. His first hires? He looked to the. North Carolina Sea Grant extension staff posed for this 1980s photo. FiltPhn?*-* \.Ur II.: him. "He loved people. They would come to talk to him," she says. Copeland agrees. "His focus was one- to-one. He would go find a highliner and get him to try something, then everyone else would ; And, Copeland adds, Tillett took on the personal mission to make sure the university folks were educated about the realities of life on the coast. "He was educating ; The marine advisory work involved not only finfish, but shellfish as well. "Hughes Tillett was the first Sea Grant advisor to promote shellfish culture," Copeland recalls. "He was the first to grow clams in bags and trays. The first job he had was to get people to change the way they were doing ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally
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