. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. TOP: Jockey's Ridge State Park was opened in 1975 as development began encroaching around Nags Head. BOTTOM: Sea-View workshop participants dig into the sand dunes to find the ground water at Jockey's Ridge. doing a great service to North Carolina by putting material in layman's language so high school students can understand it" When educating students and teachers about coastal processes, Riggs is passionate and energetic. For almost four hours straight, he leads students and teachers over Jockey's
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. TOP: Jockey's Ridge State Park was opened in 1975 as development began encroaching around Nags Head. BOTTOM: Sea-View workshop participants dig into the sand dunes to find the ground water at Jockey's Ridge. doing a great service to North Carolina by putting material in layman's language so high school students can understand it" When educating students and teachers about coastal processes, Riggs is passionate and energetic. For almost four hours straight, he leads students and teachers over Jockey's Ridge and through Nags Head Woods. The only time he stops is to pick up a piece of charcoal or sand or show a map of aerial photos of development around Nags Head from 1932 to today. "These photos are like watching a person grow up," he says. "The 1932 photo shows when the first road was built and the dune at Jockey's Ridge was very large and expanded over a large ; By the 1960s, there was some development around Nags Head. Ten years later, contractors began building houses on top of dune fields, including portions of Jockey's Ridge and Seven Sisters dune fields, eventually eliminating the Seven Sisters dune field, according to Riggs. "The water lines blew out, and septic systems filled with sand," adds Riggs. "Every house had to be bulldozed. Today's aerial photos show very little undeveloped land ; Maritime Forest At Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve, Riggs leads the teachers and students, who are loaded down with backpacks and water bottles, deep into the diverse maritime forest, managed by the Nature Conservancy. When the group gets to the edge of the forest, they trek through a vast marsh to a severely eroding estuarine shoreline. "Much of the marsh doesn't exist anymore," says Riggs. "The shoreline erosion is a product of rising sea level. The loss of wetlands and uplands in coastal North Carolina is betwe
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