Duke University School of the Environment Marine Laboratory

Coastal nvtronm ntal

Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 1993

anag m nt Marine Lab Initiates New Graduate Program

EEZ. Territorial Sea. MARPOL. EIS. GIS. CZMA. . . There will be a whole new language around the Marine Lab starting this Fall with the arrival of the first professional students in the Coastal Environmental Management (CEM) Program. This two year degree program is a new com­ponent of the School of the Environment's Masters of Environmental Management Program.

The professional degree pro­gram was started a number of years ago in the former School of Forestry and has developed to meet the needs of the en­vironmental job market in business, industry, and government. Other specializa­tions within this program in­clude Resource Economics and Policy, Resource Ecology, Water and Air Resources, and Environmental Tox­icology. A coastal management component was a logical addition when the Marine Lab joined with the School of the Environment.

The specific objective of the program is to train scientifically informed profes­sionals to fill coastal resource management or research positions in federal and state agencies, industry, consulting firms and nonprofit organizations. However, the scientific emphasis of the program also provides a firm foundation for future Ph.D. studies.

Duke's Coastal Environmental Manage­ment Program is unusual because of the Beaufort Experience. Other similar pro­grams do not offer the proximity to coastal

resources or the opportunity to live, work and study in the coastal environment. Combining the Marine Lab's scientific expertise with the environmental planning, policy, and economics expertise of the Durham Campus will allow professional

students to develop the skills and knowledge necessary for successful careers in coastal resource management.

The program is designed to provide an understanding of the physical and biological processes of the coastal zone coupled with economics and management skills. Students will specialize in either coastal sedimentary or biological pro­cesses. Both tracks provide an educational background in oceanography, ecosystem management, resource economics, en­vironmental policy, technical writing, and quantitative data analysis. In addition, an internship or practical work experience is integral to completion of the program.

Students in the program spend their first year in Durham taking courses. Over the summer they are expected to be involved in practical applications of this knowledge

through internships in government, in­dustry and non-profits.

The second year is spent in Beaufort, at the marine laboratory, where the students will focus on developing their scientific backgrounds in oceanography and marine

ecology. The final require­ment of the program is com­pletion of a Master's Project, which may take the form of a research project, environmen­tal assessment, or resource model. A written report and oral presentation of the Master's Project round out the two year degree.

There are currently 7 students enrolled in the program and we expect an in­crease to 15 students a year. Current student interests in­

clude the application of Geographic Infor­mation System (GIS) technology to coastal systems, aquatic toxicology and the management of toxins in coastal systems, fisheries management, and land use plan­ning for the protection of coastal re­sources.

Students enter the program with under­graduate degrees in a variety of areas but all students are expected to have coursework in natural science, statistics, calculus, economics and physics. Many of the applicants to this new program have had prior experience at the Marine Lab, either through summer school or as a semester of their undergraduate experience.

We are looking forward to having the addition of the professional students at the Marine Lab this Fall.

DUML Currents ''Wild'' Bill Anderson who worked with Joe Bonaventura in 1984-1986 on the ar­tificial gill, returns to DUML this summer as an MBC Visiting Scholar to work on issues of environmental human health. He'll be joined by his wife Katy and their two children Alyssa and Cooper, ages 5 and 7. Bill is Professor and Chairman of Chemistry at Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia.

DUML joins Don Gerhart and Frances White in celebrating the birth of their son, Jonathan Graham, born February 1 at 10:28 pm. Jonathan weighed in at 6lb. 8.8oz. and is growing rapidly. Both Frances and Jonathan are well.

DUML joins Jeff and Sydnee Goddard (Duke Ph.D. 1991) in celebrating the birth of their son, Tyler Jackson (after Jackson Hole Wyoming), born April 4. Tyler weighed in at 5lbs. 1oz., 17-% ". "Feel­ing great!,'' Sydnee writes.

Amy Huffman Ringwood Ph.D., who came to DUML in 1990 as a postdoctoral fellow in the Duke University Integrated Toxicology Program, has accepted a posi­tion at the Marine Resources Research In­stitute, Charleston, SC. One of her primary responsibilities will be coordina­tion of EPA's EMAP (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program) for the Carolinian Province, which includes sites in NC, SC, GA, and FL.

Marta Sanderson, Duke undergrad spring 1989 and working in various capacities since 1985 with Richard Barber, left in March for a job in California. She will be working as Francisco Chavez's (Duke Ph.D. 1987) technician at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

Dick Topham, who worked at the Marine Lab in the spring of 1985 and again in the summer of 1986 doing research with Joe and Celia Bonaventura on horseshoe crab hemocyanin, has returned to DUML to continue this work during his sabbatical leave from the University of Richmond. Dick is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Richmond, and he will be us­ing chemical and spectral probes to study hemocyanins at DUML from January through June of this year.

Richard Winn, who came to DUML in fall 1989 as a Fellow with the Duke University Integrated Toxicology Pro­gram, is continuing his research here in Bookhout with the Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS with Drs. Heinrich Malling and James Burkhart). Their current work focuses on developing fish which carry specific genes that serve as markers of genetic damage. These ''trans­genic'' fish will permit analyses of how various chemical contaminants released in the aquatic environment may cause mutations.

DUML welcomes Karen Ashley, Secretary in Oceanography; John Cheek, Chris Scholz's technician; Mark Cook, electronics technician in Oceanography; Bobby Daniels, Cape Hatteras crew; Steve Elmore, J.D. Robertson's technician; Kathryn Howd, MEM Coordinator; Maureen Krause, postdoc in Becky Van Beneden's lab; Laura Lynch, Becky Van Beneden's technician; Doug Murless, J.D. Robertson's technician; John Nelson, Cape Hatteras crew; Nick Nichols, new cook in the dining hall; John Reisenweber, Don Rittschof's technician; Mark Smith, Cape Hatteras crew; and Rick Tankersley, Research Associate working with Richard Forward.

DUML community waves good-bye to retirees, Curtis Oden, Dot Johnson, and Tommy Morton; to ship crew Byron Boyer, Tim Boynton, Jim Cloninger, and Lester Salter; and to Hassan Bedair & family and Tony Clare & family who left in February for Jordan and the U.K., respectively.

Recycling at DUML has come a long way from the days when we used to carry boxes and bags of material in our cars to the Newport dump for recycling. DUML has been steadily contributing more and more to environmental conser­vation by recycling drink cans, styrofoam packing peanuts, newspaper, corrugated cardboard and mixed paper. Kathy Reinsel, present coordinator of recycling, says perhaps in the future when recycled products are less expensive we can buy and use recycled pin-feed paper and copy paper.

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The DUML community received with sadness the news of Dr. Robert Drane Barnes' death. Bob Barnes took Dr. Bookhout's Marine Invertebrate Zoology in the summer of 194 7 while he was a junior at Davidson College. Later he entered Graduate School at Duke Univer­sity and received his Ph.D. in Zoology under Dr. I.E. Gray in 1953. He joined the Biology Department at Gettysburg College after his graduate work and served for 38 years. He also served as visiting professor of Marine Invertebrate Zoology at DUML frequently in the summers after 1964. He was the author of ''Invertebrate Zoology,'' the most success­ful text in its field. It is now in its 5th edition, an edition dedicated to Dr. C.G. Bookhout. He was one of DUML's most illustrious alumnus. We will miss him.

DUNCOC News

R/V CAPE HATTERAS has a 212-day schedule for 1993. From January until early May, she will be operting out of Ber­muda as she covers for R/V WEATHER­BIRD II, the research vessel of the Ber­muda Biological Station. WEATHER­BIRD II is undergoing extensive work in the shipyard to make her more convenient for science. When CAPE HATTERAS returns from Bermuda, that will mark the end of her forays into foreign ports for 1993. For the rest of the year, she will operate in and out of Beaufort.

DUML replaced its 30-year-old dock in December. The CAPE HATTERAS will have easier, safer loading and unloading when it ties up to a longer, wider concrete piling-supported concrete deck, equipped with shore power and 25-ft sodium lights, photocell operated. The remaining new south portion of the deck and pilings are wood, constructed to hold 6000 lbs. The SUSAN HUDSON docks here, provided with shore power. Thirteen 3-ft fluorescent dock pedestals, also photocell operated, are spaced about 20 feet apart and light the way; some of them provide electrical outlets.

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Says Two Tommy Morton and Dorothy Johnson Retire

Tommy Morton, Head Cook in the Dining Hall, has retired after 17 years of employment. Tommy came to us in January 1976, having spent most of his life prepar­ing meals for others. He served as a cook in the Navy during World War II, and was in the restaurant business until he came to us. His deli sandwiches were a major hit in the late seventies, especially when they were served in conjunction with Happy

Hour where Oregon (do you remember Oregon) served bar. Tommy has dedicated his life to taking care of people, and ensur­ing they were well fed and happy. His children and grandchildren want him to

That feeling of family is one that Bettie Tyson, winner of the Duke University Presidential A ward in the service/ skilled craft category, knows well. She has worked at the Marine Lab since 1980, first in housekeeping and since 1985 in the dining hall. Bettie ' 'is the 'backbone' of the dining hall operation.'' In addition to having responsibility for the kitchen, dining room and serving areas, Bettie also coordinates student labor and fills in for the cooks or cashiers when needed.

Last summer Bettie devised a new route for the line of dining hall patrons which allowed us to serve over 120 students and staff members in only 12 minutes as opposed to over 40 minutes without her plan.

spend more time at home so they can get to know him better. However, Tommy has a keen interest in oriental gardens, and he plans to spend much of his new found spare time working to make his yard the most beautiful on Pine Knoll Shores. Additionally, he has quite a talent for wood car­ving, and we will probably be seeing him in the local craft shows. He will be sorely missed, but we understand he can be found on Wednesday mornings at Hardees in Beaufort having coffee with all the other "ole timers" from DUML. You might drop by and see him there . . .

Dorothy Johnson, Administrative Assis­tant for the Duke/UNC Oceanographic Consortium, has retired after 25 years of service. She has stayed on through the toils and follies of a wide variety of people, in­cluding Dick Barber, Orrin Pilkey, C.G. Bookhout, Tom Johnson, Eric Nelson, John Newton, George Newton, Quentin Lewis, and Joe U stach. She has tended to the quirks and idiosyncrasies of hundreds of scientists and technicians from across the

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Bettie said she particularly enjoys the summer terms when young people in Duke's talent identification program (TIP) study at the Marine Lab. ''I just love it,'' sh~ said. "They seem like they're mine. If they have problems about a girlfriend or boyfriend, they come to me. Some of them even call me Mom!"

Along with her gift for friendship, Bettie has the gift of song. She sang the national anthem, accompanied by the Marine Corps Band at the Marine Lab's 50th anniversary celebration in 1988. She sings regularly in her church choir, and often takes students along who want to hear her sing, she said.

Bettie works tirelessly, with an enor­mous smile and cheerful disposition. The student and employee patrons love and

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nation. She has cared for and tended to the needs of crew members for two nationally renowned research vessels, EASTWARD and CAPE HATTERAS, and has been an important part in the missions of those two ships. She has steered problems, pro­posals, and payrolls through deadlines and to completion for most of these 25 years with a steadiness and an assurance that comes only with experience. Finally, she has moved with technology from manual typewriters through electric typewriters through Lanier word processing and on into desk top computers. Who knows what she would have gotten into in the next 25 years?

adore her; many students write back to her over the years, long after they have

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The Search for the Non-toxic Antifoulant by Monte Basgall

Drawing on his knowledge of both chemistry and biology, an associate zoology professor at the Duke University Marine Laboratory is helping devise ecologically safe solutions to a major nautical problem.

Daniel Rittschof, who now directs Duke's Nontoxic Antifouling Program, is seeking natural Achilles heels in the defenses of the barnacle, a commonplace animal that he says is found in great abun­dance in the coastal waters around the world.

Barnacles, hard-shelled marine crusta­ceans with feathery appendages, can collect in great numbers on the hulls of un­protected boats and ships. They, and other so-called "biofouling" agents such as tubeworms and seaweeds, are billion­dollar headaches for marine interests. In 1981, the U.S. Navy alone spent about $500 million to scrape hulls clean and to pay for extra fuel to overcome the drag imposed by the encrusting organ­isms.

Before 1988, the Navy though it had a permanent solution to biofouling. Tri-n­butyl tin paints were found so effective at protecting hull surfaces that the Office of N ava1 Research curtailed most funding for outside biofouling research. But then Congress barred the Navy from using tri­n-butyl tin paints because those compounds had been shown to be generally toxic to all living organisms.

Fortunately for the Navy, one longstand­ing research relationship that it had not dropped was with Duke's Marine Labor­atory. The lab's then-director, John Costlow, had gotten his Ph.D. doing research on barnacles and had received years of support from the Navy. Drawing on some scientific intuition, Costlow and several colleagues announced in 1983 that a coral species, the whip coral, contains a nontoxic natural chemical that can inhibit barnacle buildups.

By then, Costlow had hired Rittschof as a research associate to redesign the pro­gram's bioassay procedures to focus on this mystery agent. Rittschof also worked with structural chemists at the University of Illinois to identify the substance. It turned out to be a pukalide, from the Hawaiian for "little hole." True to its name, Rittschof says it is a kind of molecule that has a small hole in it.

Meanwhile, the researchers also got on the trail of antifouling agents from

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another coral, the purple, plarit-like sea pansy. Those chemicals appeared to contain even more powerful antifoul­ing substances. The sea pansy extracts proved to prevent barnacle buildups in very low doses. They also were shown to be nontoxic to human cells or to the barnacles themselves. New to science, they were given the name Renillafoulins and, in 1986, were protected by a patent. In addition to its Navy contract, the program then began a research relationship with Hercules, Inc., to develop com­mercially feasible antifouling agents.

Rittschof and Donald Gerhart, a research assistant professor, have also embarked on yet another research strategy. "The molecules we had just discovered were really complex,'' Ritt­schof explains. "We had to find some way either to synthesize them or find molecules that are just as effective but are also cheap and commercially available.''

With initial support from Hercules, the researchers began investigating barnacle

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pheromones. While best known as sexual attractants, pheromones are more generally described as ''communications molecules'' that function as chemical signals between individuals, Rittschof says. Some kinds of communications molecules appear to be involved in barnacle biofouling, he adds. "We know barnacles are gregarious sexual animals. And if they are going to reproduce, they have to settle near other barnacles.''

The researchers are zeroing in on another, lesser known trait of some pheromones. ''At one level, they can stimulate settlement, but at another level they can retard it,'' he says.

While Rittschof currently heads the Nontoxic Antifouling Program, he notes that Joseph and Celia Bonaventura, the co­directors of the Marine Biomedical Center, have been involved in the research since 1978. Rittschof has also collaborated with scientists in India, Sweden and at Harvard University.

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''I love the kids and the whole place.'' Beaufort native, Bettie has three

. Her son John attended Winston­State University and lives in

Winston-Salem now. Her daughter Felicia also lives in Beaufort, and her youngest child, Anthony, is at home with her.

Winning a Presidential A ward was a big surprise, she said. "I never dreamed that something like this would happen. It's nice to know how people think of you.''

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'' LESLIE A. DAVIS, ('87 B.S.; Summer

'85; Fall '86 DUML) has completed a year of law practice with a Nevada Supreme Court Justice at Carson City, NV. She is now in San Francisco where she plans to practice environmental law.

DR. STEPHEN SULKIN, ('71 Ph.D., Zoology; Summer '67 DUML) will become Acting Provost of West Washington College while a search is being conducted for a president of the College

DR. CARTER BROAD, ('56 Ph.D. Zoology; Resident Investigator 1954-1957 DUML) has moved from Bellingham, WA, where he was Professor and Chair­man of the Biology Department of West Washington College to Juneau, AK to spend his retirement.

MISS JUSTINE SMITH, ('84 B.S.; Summer '83 DUML) is at EPA in Seattle, WA, working in the ocean disposal pro­gram. She is over-seeing an urban habitat restoration project which is part of former President Bush's Coastal American Pro­gram. Jus tine was married on March 31 and is now Mrs. Justine Smith Burton. She and her husband live in a new home at 6657 58th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98115.

DR. ROBERT HIGGINS, ('61 Ph.D, Zoology) has held a number of important positions at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. From 1978 to the pre­sent he has been Curator in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of National HistOry. Dr. Higgins is plan­ning to retire, and he and Mrs. Higgins will move to Asheville, NC.

DR. THOMAS LEE, ('61 AM; Sum­mer '60 DUML) having retired from teaching is moving from Farmington, CT to Pensacola, FL.

DR. LEE E. FABER, ('64 AB); earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University. After post-doctoral work at Syntex Research, he spent the past 21 years developing the Medical College of Ohio, and main­taining an active research group in

Are by Dr. C. G. Bookhout

endocrinology. He hopes to visit DUML in 1994, and attend his 30-year class reunion.

KENNETH A. VOGEL, ('80 Summer) practices law in Bethesda, MD where he lives with his wife, Randi, and their two children, Lauren and Evan.

BOB THACKER, (Duke '89, DUML '87) a third year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan is studying the ecology and behavior of land hermit crabs in Panama and the relationship between at­traction by food odors, dietary history of the crab, and dietary quality of the food.

KELLY EISENMAN, (Duke '88, DUML '88-'91) is on time to finish a master's degree at the University of Vermont in watershed hydrology. Kelly has become an expert in computer model­ing of storm water run-off and is planning to spend the summer working in France.

DEIRDRE ROBERTS, (Brown '88; DUML '88) is a second year Ph.D. student at Oregon State in JANE JUBCHENCO 'S Laboratory. She is planning studies that interface between ecology and physiology.

MATT WACHOWIAK, ('90B.S.; '86, '89 DUML) is finishing his seconli year as an NSF Fellow in a Ph.D. program in Neurophysiology at the University of Florida Medical School. Matt is using patch clamping techniques to study neurophysiological responses in spiney lobster.

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CHRISTINE KRATT, ('91 Duke; '90 spring and summer) has given up her job selling pharmaceuticals in Atlanta. She will be a wrangler in a National Park this sum­mer ("somewhere, where there are Bison") and then will head to graduate school.

KEN CROCKER, (DUML Summer and Fall '83) finished his Ph.D. at the Univer­sity of California, Santa Barbara and has taken a postdoc at Memorial University in St. Johns Newfoundland.

DAN BOTTOM, a graduate at the first Marine Semester in residence, (DUML Fall '71) has been assigned to a new state operated center in Corvallis, Oregon, that focuses in climate change and fishery resources.

LYNDA SHAPIRO, (Ph.D. DUML '75) of the University of Oregon, and EVELYN SHERR, of Oregon State University, are collaborating on proposals and research. Actually, it's a three-way collaboration that also involves Evelyn's husband BARRY SHERR.

FRANCISCO CHAVEZ, (Ph.D. DUML '87) and PATRICK WHALING, (DUML Fall '71) continue to thrive in the Monterey Bay climate; they were recently joined by MARTA SANDERSON, (DUML '90).

I am pleased to announced that ''The Origin and First Thirty-jive Years of Duke University Marine Laboratory'' by Prof. Cazlyn G. Bookhout is published! It is articulately written and full of facts, all in Bookie's style, and is a most enjoyable sojourn through the early years of this institution. The history is available at cost ($12.00) +postage & handling ($3.00). Please address your orders to Cindy Baldwin Adams.

J. Ramus, Director

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Laws amed as Second McCurdy Visiting Scholar

Dr. Edward A. Laws, Professor of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, was chosen to be the second Mary Derrickson McCurdy Scholar at DUML.

Dr. Laws received his A.B. in Chemistry, Magna cum Laude from Harvard University in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Harvard Univer­sity in 1971.

He has published more than 76 papers in refereed scholarly journals in physical, chemical, engineering and biological jour­nals. Since 1975 most of his papers have been published in Marine Biological and Oceanographic journals like Journal of Phycology, Limnology and Oceanography, Deep Sea Research, Aquaculture, J. Plankton Research, Biomass, etc.

Professor Laws plans to spend his sab­batical leave at DUML from January 1994 through August 1994. In the spring semester he will teach a course in Coastal and Marine Pollution. He offers a course in this subject at University of Hawaii and has published a book now in the second edition, ''Aquatic Pollution, An Introduc­tory Text" (1993). In the summer of 1994, he may offer a seminar or half course in mathematical techniques for oceanogra­phers.

Contributions to smaller endowments which support scholarships continue to grow. In the Fall 1992 issue of DUML News, we announced the initial gift of

$250,000 to the Stephen Toth Fund. Eventually the principal is expected to ex­ceed one million dollars and will produce an income stream which will be sufficient for Duke to establish a fully-funded pro­fessorship in marine biology. We hope the remainder of the Fund will be forthcom­ing by the end of this fiscal year.

ANNUAL GIVING REPORT

At the end of March 1993, the DUML Annual Fund for 1992-1993 had received $114,528 i.e. 57.3% of our goal of $200,000. At the end of March 1992, the DUML Annual Fund for 1991-92 had received $121,560 i.e. 78.4% of our goal of $155,000. We thank all who have con-

tributed to the Annual Fund and urge all alumni and friends of DUML who have not contributed to do so before June 30th. The search for two new staff members, one in chemical oceanography and the other in Marine Affairs and Policy is nearly com­pleted. Start-up funds will be needed for these new faculty members and instrumen­tation funding will be required for new courses. Furthermore, DUML Annual Fund monies will be used to meet the demands of all the programs whenever there is a need.

The Annual Giving response card below can be clipped out and returned with your gift.

C.G. Bookhout Professor Emeritus in Zoology

Chairman, Marine Lab Annual Fund

For the past two years, friends of the Marine Laboratory have been receiving both DUML News and FOREM, the external magazine of the School of the Envi­ronment. Beginning this fall, you will receive just one publication twice a year­DUML News and FOREM will be combined under a new masthead.

Just as we have united the educational and research programs of the Marine Laboratory and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in the School of the Environment, we will continue to integrate the administration of the Beaufort and Durham campuses. In the future, our publications will more con­sistently reflect the image of the new school.

The name of our new magaztne and a School of the Environment logo are still being discussed. Your suggestions are most welcome.

Watch for us in December with a new name and a new image.

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From the Boathouse

The Marine Laboratory is turning away students! The number of enrollment appli­cants is rising, and rising steadily. Four of the five courses for Summer Term I 1993 were filled by the end of February. Fall Term 1993 was filled by the middle of March. Of the 65 students admitted to Fall Term, 44 are from Duke and 21 are from Marine Science Education Consortium (MSEC) schools. In addition, Davidson College will have 18 students in residence for the semester. Thus the diversity of the student body is maintained; a valued tradi­tion. Enrollment in the other academic terms is approaching the maximum as well.

America is undergoing a second ''green­ing". The first peaked in the 1960's and was largely expressed as environmental awareness and good will. Now, the generation of the 1990's is resolved to make a difference with the application of science to the management of risk in the natural environment. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that young people are recruiting in increasing numbers to high quality programs in the en­vironmental sciences. The Marine Labora­tory is responding by developing programs in oceanography, marine biology, marine geology and in coastal environmental management.

by J. Ramus, Director

The Environmental Science and Policy undergraduate major is one of Duke's fastest growing, and the major requires a field station experience. Marine science tracks are proving to be popular for science and engineering majors. The core cur­riculum in basic ocean processes and the coastal environmental management profes­sional degree have caught the attention of many potential post-graduate students.

Greater numbers of students, and for greater durations, are severely burdening the physical plant, which was not designed for intense use in the first place. The Beaufort campus is not neoGothic and stone, rather it is Cottage and wood, and only recently insulated at that. The in­frastructure is inadequate to meet the new demands, e.g., sewage treatment, power distribution and dehumidification. Academic space is also inadequate to meet the new demands, e.g., high technology laboratory classrooms, student commons and housing.

The current challenge is to provide ade­quate infrastructure and academic space. In the very near future, the School of the Environment will announce a major cam­paign to raise funds for these purposes, the OCEAN SCIENCES TEACHING IN­ITIATIVE. The campaign will be the first and largest effort of its kind for the Marine

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Laboratory, and will comprehensively address the many needs of the teaching program on the Beaufort campus.

Many alumni and friends of the Marine Laboratory have already asked for a major role in this campaign, and we will reach out to others as well. This kind of focused effort is absolutely essential to the quality of the teaching program, and will necessarily involve all of us .... alumni, friends and faculty.

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