. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Written and photographed by Carla Burgess It's close to noon on Rocky Branch Creek, and Joe Chaplin kneels beside a sliver of the muddy stream. Something is bubbling, squirming below the clouded water and he scoops it gingerly into a cupped palm. A salamander, he acknowledges excitedly, closing his fingers around it. The creek is making a comeback, he says, plopping the wriggling creature into the water a few yards downstream. Chaplin is one of a team of Midwesterners summoned to repair a portion of this d
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Written and photographed by Carla Burgess It's close to noon on Rocky Branch Creek, and Joe Chaplin kneels beside a sliver of the muddy stream. Something is bubbling, squirming below the clouded water and he scoops it gingerly into a cupped palm. A salamander, he acknowledges excitedly, closing his fingers around it. The creek is making a comeback, he says, plopping the wriggling creature into the water a few yards downstream. Chaplin is one of a team of Midwesterners summoned to repair a portion of this degraded waterway that carves through the State University campus. Today the school's maintenance workers are diverting the flow of the stream through a pipe so that the repair team can shore up the eroded banks along the channel. Chaplin is tackling a personal project, plucking and relocating a few amphibians and crayfish from the muddy puddle left behind. Aquatic organisms are tell- Continued COASTWATCH 17. 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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