. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Sea Grant research examines every aspect of economically important estuaries. The scientists described a systems approach to estuarine studies. They presented the theory of estuarine classifica- tion based on dominant energy flows, including biological, geological, chemical and physical classification factors — energy being a common denominator. The human factor in this environmental system approach was not discounted. "Howard Odum was doing groundbreaking estuarine research. He was very innovative,&q
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Sea Grant research examines every aspect of economically important estuaries. The scientists described a systems approach to estuarine studies. They presented the theory of estuarine classifica- tion based on dominant energy flows, including biological, geological, chemical and physical classification factors — energy being a common denominator. The human factor in this environmental system approach was not discounted. "Howard Odum was doing groundbreaking estuarine research. He was very innovative," says Copeland, a former North Carolina Sea Grant director who considers Odum his mentor. Odum was among the first to take a systems approach to estuarine study. He also was one of the first to investigate the effects of sewage in different estuarine environments. "He's still doing innovative things," Copeland says of the 77-year-old who is director of the Center for Environmental Policy at the University of Florida. Odum teaches environmental engineering and continues to study systems ecology and to evaluate environmental policy. It was Odum who received the first North Carolina Sea Grant research grant in 1968 for a two-year, multidisciplinary study of North Carolina's complex estuarine system. Odum's early Sea Grant project also provided a model for a multidisciplinary, intercollegiate research approach that has become Sea Grant's hallmark. Since then, the scope and impact of North Carolina Sea Grant's estuarine research has been as broad and diverse as the environmental treasure itself. North Carolina's million-acre estuarine system is the third-largest in the nation — behind Alaska and Louisiana. The bays, sounds, tidal salt marshes and wetlands that comprise the Pamlico, Albemarle and Cape Fear estuarine systems play important roles in interdependent coastal processes. And, over the years, Sea Grant researchers have examined nearly every aspect of th
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