Bank Carolina North Outer
Life-Saving Stations to Visit
North Carolina ... Owner: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE/CHICAMACOMICO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION[goto http://www.outer-banks.com/history.html for more information] ... Location: OUTER BANKS ... [Read More]
NOAA Ocean Explorer: Islands in the Stream 2002: Exploring Underwater Oases
In 2001, the National Marine Sanctuary Program’s "Islands in the Stream" expedition explored deep-water habitats from North Carolina to the coast of Belize. Building on this work, the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration’s "Islands in the Stream 2002: Exploring Underwater Oases" will host four scientific investigations geared toward learning more about high-relief areas along the continental shelf break and slope from the eastern coast of Florida to North Carolina – an area known as the South Atlantic Bight. These important and understudied habitats peppered throughout the region provide critically important habitat for a wide variety of marine organisms. ... [Read More]
Geology of Cape Hatteras National Seashore
The treacherous waters that lie off the coast of the Outer Banks bear the name Graveyard of the Atlantic . It is a grim, but fitting, epithet, for here more than 600 ships have wrecked, victims of shallow shoals, storms, and war. Diamond Shoals , a bank of shifting sand ridges hidden beneath a turbulent sea off Cape Hatteras, has never promised safe passage for any ship. But seafarers often risked the shoals to take advantage of north or south flowing currents that passed nearby. Many never reached their destination. Fierce winter norteasters and tropical-born hurricanes drove many ships aground, including the schooner G.A. Kohler in 1933. Other ships were lost in wars. During World War II German submarines sank so many Allied tankers and cargo ships here that these waters earned a second sobering name— Torpedo Junction . In the past 400 years the graveyard has claimed many lives. But many were saved by island villagers. As early as the 1870s villagers served as members of the U.S. ... [Read More]
Fieldwork - Complete Story Archive
Inner-Shelf-Mapping Cruise off Northern North Carolina Outer Banks ... North Carolina's Outer Banks ... Multipronged Scientific Assault on North Carolina's Outer Banks ... [Read More]
Manteo Exploration Unit
The Outer Banks Protection Act mandated the establishment of a North CarolinaEnvironmental Sciences Review Panel (ESRP). In January 1992, this groupsubmitted a report to the Secretary of the Interior recommending that a suite ofenvironmental studies be conducted. That April, the Secretary filed his Reportto Congress confirming that " . . . in spite of data gaps, the informationthat currently exists is adequate to make a reasoned decision about activitiesproposed offshore North Carolina." He went on to say " . . . I willnot issue a permit, approve the exploration plan, or allow any drilling untilthe ESRP recommended studies have been completed. Two environmental studies wereordered and completed in 1993. ... [Read More]
North Carolina - Special Weather Statements
FLUS41 KAKQ 180928HWOAKQHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA528 AM EDT MON JUL 18 2005NCZ012>017-030>032-VAZ048-049-060>098-190930-NORTHAMPTON NC-HERTFORD-GATES-PASQUOTANK-CAMDEN-INLAND CURRITUCK-BERTIE-CHOWAN-PERQUIMANS-FLUVANNA-LOUISA-PRINCE EDWARD-CUMBERLAND-GOOCHLAND-HANOVER-CAROLINE-MECKLENBURG-LUNENBURG-NOTTOWAY-AMELIA-POWHATAN-CHESTERFIELD-HENRICO-KING WILLIAM-KING AND QUEEN-ESSEX-WESTMORELAND-RICHMOND-NORTHUMBERLAND-LANCASTER-BRUNSWICK-DINWIDDIE-PRINCE GEORGE-CHARLES CITY-NEW KENT-GLOUCESTER-MIDDLESEX-MATHEWS-GREENSVILLE-SUSSEX-SURRY-JAMES CITY-YORK-SOUTHAMPTON-ISLE OF WIGHT-NEWPORT NEWS/HAMPTON-NORFOLK/PORTSMOUTH-SUFFOLK-CHESAPEAKE-VIRGINIA BEACH-528 AM EDT MON JUL 18 2005THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTVIRGINIA...NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND NORTH CENTRALVIRGINIA..DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHTA HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR HEAT INDICES FROM 105 TO110...REFE ... [Read More]
Cape Hatteras National Seashore - National Park Service - on the Outer Banks of North Carolina
A thin broken strand of islands curves out into the Atlantic Ocean and then back again in a sheltering embrace of North Carolina's mainland coast and its offshore sounds. These are the Outer Banks of North Carolina. For thousands of years these barrier islands have survived the onslaught of wind and sea. Today their long stretches of beach, sand dunes, marshes, and woodlands are set aside as Cape Hatteras National Seashore. We invite you to visit our site - whether your interest is in the general history of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, educational supplements, maps or current exhibits, you'll find a wealth of information below: ... [Read More]
Appalachian Elktoe in North Carolina
In the Nolichucky River system, the Appalachian elktoe survives in a few scattered areas of suitable habitat in the Toe River, Yancey and Mitchell Counties, North Carolina (Service 1994, 1996, 2002; McGrath 1996, 1999); Cane River, Yancey County, North Carolina (Service 1994, 1996, 2002; McGrath 1997); and the main stem of the Nolichucky River, Yancey and Mitchell Counties, North Carolina, extending downstream to the vicinity of Erwin in Unicoi County, Tennessee (Service 1994, 1996, 2002). Two individuals have also recently been found in the North Toe River, Yancey and Mitchell Counties, North Carolina, below the confluence of Crabtree Creek (McGrath 1999), and 15 live individuals, with no more than 2 to 3 at each site (J.A. Fridell, pers. observation 1998, 2000; Service 2002) and one shell (S. Fraley, Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris, Tennessee, pers. comm. 1999) have been recorded from the South Toe River, Yancey County, North Carolina. The majority of the surviving occurrences of ... [Read More]
NOAA Ocean Explorer: Life On The Edge
on tropical reefs, such as the short bigeye (Pristigenys alta) , bank butterfly fish (Chaetodon aya) , blue angelfish (Holacanthus bermudensis) , sharpnose puffer (Canthigaster rostrata) , red barbier (Hemanthias vivanus) and spinycheek soldierfish (Corniger spinosus) are often sighted here. The larvae and juveniles of many of these species become entrained in the Gulf Stream over reef systems further south, and are carried northward to habitats off North Carolina. ... [Read More]
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