Feb 28, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey Buckel, NC State University professor at the Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST), who is one of twelve recipients of this year’s William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professors in the University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. This Neal Professorship is one of the highest honors one can receive within the College,…
Feb 23, 2024
Earlier this month, students, staff, and volunteers with the Bonehenge Whale Center, NC Maritime Museum, NC Aquariums, NC Division of Marine Fisheries, and NC State CMAST carefully exhumed the skeletal remains of an adult male pygmy sperm whale that stranded on the beach of Nags Head, NC on November 3, 2021. Staff from the NC Wildlife…
Jan 31, 2024
The NC State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST), is collaborating with the NC Coastal Federation and the NC Central University to build oyster sanctuaries while increasing diversity in the field of marine sciences. The $14.9 million grant project, titled, “Completing the Pamlico Sound Oyster Sanctuary and Training the Next Generation of Restoration Professionals,”…
Jan 23, 2024
The NC State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology welcomes a new group of students to its Semester at CMAST program! Now in its eighth year, Semester a CMAST is an academic, experiential learning experience that provides opportunities for select NC State undergraduate students to study coastal and marine sciences from CMAST in Morehead City. During…
The NC State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST) took in 109 cold-stunned sea turtles from Cape Lookout on Sunday. Unfortunately, only 36 of them survived. Deceased turtles will be necropsied and used for research. Surviving turtles are being examined and treated at CMAST. Afterwards, they will be transferred to the NC Aquarium at…
Congratulations to Dr. David Eggleston (left), director of the NC State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST), who has been elected as Vice President & President-Elect of the National Association of Marine Labs. This association represents over 100 labs in the US. One of the main duties of this position is serving as Chair…
Congratulations to Melissa LaCroce, NC State University research assistant at the NC State Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST), and Dr. David Eggleston, director of CMAST, who have published an article on the population density and size of bay scallops in North Carolina (NC) Sounds. The article, titled, Patterns and Processes Underlying Spatiotemporala Patiotemporal Variation in…
Jan 16, 2024
Morehead City, NC – In the past four years, an average of ninety-two marine mammal strandings per year have occurred along the central coast of North Carolina (NC). According to Dr. Vicky Thayer, Marine Mammal Stranding Coordinator for the NC Division of Marine Fisheries, NC “has the highest diversity of marine mammal strandings of any…
Dec 19, 2023
The weekend before Christmas, a team of anglers that included NC State veterinarians, Drs. Greg Lewbart and Anthony Blikslager, discovered a recently deceased sperm whale stranded near the point on Cape Lookout. The group contacted Dr. Craig Harms, Director of Marine Health at the Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST), who called Dr. Vicky Thayer,…
Dec 7, 2023
Twelve NC State veterinary students recently spent the week at the Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST) learning about marine mammal health and medicine in a course led by Dr. Craig Harms and Dr. Michael Stoskopf. In addition to lectures by an array of marine mammal biologists and veterinarians, students have had the opportunity to…