. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Photo by Kathy Hart. With "adaptation games" students learn about marine life things to see and do there besides swimming in the ocean and watching the bikinis go ; For Lundie every creature, tidal marsh, dune and yaupon bush is a lesson in coastal ecology. And she doesn't mind standing shin-high in muck to show a teacher a marsh periwinkle inching up a blade of cordgrass or an egret stalking its prey. "She believes that getting in there and doing it or seeing it is the best ex- peri


. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Photo by Kathy Hart. With "adaptation games" students learn about marine life things to see and do there besides swimming in the ocean and watching the bikinis go ; For Lundie every creature, tidal marsh, dune and yaupon bush is a lesson in coastal ecology. And she doesn't mind standing shin-high in muck to show a teacher a marsh periwinkle inching up a blade of cordgrass or an egret stalking its prey. "She believes that getting in there and doing it or seeing it is the best ex- perience a teacher can have," says Jo Duckett, assistant program director and education coordinator for the science museums of Charlotte, and the former science-resource teacher for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. "With Lundie you experience marine education. She lives marine education and she makes you aware of marine education as a holistic kind of ; Besides working with regular classroom teachers, Lundie has also made a special effort to help vocational and home economics teachers in- troduce more marine topics to their students. Carter Newsome, regional coordinator for vocational education in southeastern North Carolina, says Lundie assisted in development of a marine occupations curriculum, arranged tours for vocational students at marine laboratories and conducted a workshop for marine occupations teachers at Sea Grant's Aquaculture Demonstration Project in Aurora. "She's really inspired our vocational teachers to stretch out, to learn and to grow," Newsome says. "Lundie has promoted the scientific aspect of vocational teaching. She's inspired enthusiasm among our teachers and a quest for up-to-date marine informa- ; When Lundie is not on the road giv- ing workshops, she's often in her Raleigh office on the phone to teachers, science coordinators or museum personnel wanting to know such things as where they can find a film stri


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