. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Their efforts were successful. In 1970, North Carolina was granted a Sea Grant institutional program that worked with the various universities and was administered by Lyman's office in Chapel Hill. The turf battles between campuses were minimal. "The proposals were always open and always competitive," explains Bill Rickards, former North Carolina Sea Grant associate director. coastal communities and found Hughes Tillett and Sumner Midgett as the first extension agents. A few months later, writer
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Their efforts were successful. In 1970, North Carolina was granted a Sea Grant institutional program that worked with the various universities and was administered by Lyman's office in Chapel Hill. The turf battles between campuses were minimal. "The proposals were always open and always competitive," explains Bill Rickards, former North Carolina Sea Grant associate director. coastal communities and found Hughes Tillett and Sumner Midgett as the first extension agents. A few months later, writer Dixie Berg came onboard to launch a newsletter that would evolve into Coastwatch magazine over the years. Lessie Tillett recalls how her late husband loved sharing new Sea Grant gear suggestions or techniques with his lifelong friends who had worked the waters beside Midgett, whose family had a long history with Outer Banks lifesaving stations, had a strong interest in land use. "They complimented each other. Between them, they were covering the activities in Dare County and beyond," Copeland says. The agents collaborated with Jim McGee of ECU, who was known along the coast for his short courses on various coastal topics, including bookkeeping for fishing Early seafood technology researchers included, from left, Frank Thomas, the late Donald Hamann, Tyre Lanier and Allen Chao. File Photo by Allen Weiu Filling Niches Copeland, whose first North Carolina Sea Grant research was a project with NC State colleague John Hobbie that looked at nutrients in the Pamlico estuary, was named program director in 1973. This meant the North Carolina's Sea Grant headquarters moved to Raleigh. His goal? Full Sea Grant College Program designation — based on a record of excellence in research, extension and communication — in the minimum time, just three years. Copeland recalls July 1,1973, when his staff included only Rickards, who later became director of the Virginia Sea
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