. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. For the past year, one of Parnell's students has studied the birds of Bat- tery Island. He's trying to find ways to maintain the nesting site so the birds will return to the island year after year. Parnell has received Sea Grant mini-grant funds to survey popula- tions of nesting colonial waterbirds. In an earlier Sea Grant project, Parnell and Robert Soots, an associate in- vestigator, developed a census methodology for calculating waterbird populations. They used the methodology to find out where and how
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. For the past year, one of Parnell's students has studied the birds of Bat- tery Island. He's trying to find ways to maintain the nesting site so the birds will return to the island year after year. Parnell has received Sea Grant mini-grant funds to survey popula- tions of nesting colonial waterbirds. In an earlier Sea Grant project, Parnell and Robert Soots, an associate in- vestigator, developed a census methodology for calculating waterbird populations. They used the methodology to find out where and how many colonial waterbirds were nesting along the North Carolina coast. Now Parnell wants to check the waterbirds to see if populations and nesting sites have changed. "Birds are an important barometer of the environment that should be monitored periodically," says Sea Grant Director Copeland. Soots and Parnell's Atlas of Colonial Waterbirds of North Carolina Estuaries, written at the completion of their project, is available from UNC Sea Grant, Box 5001, Raleigh, 27650. The 274-page book costs $7. Ask for publication UNC-SG-78-10. Larry Crowder, a North Carolina State University zoologist, has received mini-grant funds to study the pred- ator-prey relationship among fishes in the es- tuary. Crowder, who recently joined the NCSU faculty, comes to North Carolina from Wisconsin, where he has just completed a three-year Wisconsin Sea Grant project. Crowder will be sampling fish in Pamlico Sound's Rose Bay to establish predator diets and size. He plans to develop a predator-prey model for the area. Continued on next page. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original UNC Sea Grant College Program. [Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program]
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