CMAST News

May 5, 2016

McClellan-Green Honored

The CMAST Summer Fellows program was started and nurtured by Dr. Patricia McClellan Green for ten years, before her untimely death in 2014. To honor her and the profound effect she had on so many young students, NC State changed the name of the Summer Fellows program to the Dr. Patricia McClellan-Green Summer Fellows Program…

Oct 13, 2015

Tag, You’re It!

“So, a gray triggerfish that’s caught and then thrown back for whatever reason, what sort of shot does that fish have of making it?” This is a question CMAST’s Brendan Runde asked hypothetically as he sat working on dozens of tags spread out in front of him, tags that will end up inside of fish…

Jul 20, 2015

The Past Uncovered

Scanning sonar from a scientific expedition has revealed the remains of a previously unknown shipwreck more than a mile deep off the North Carolina coast. Artifacts on the wreck indicate it might date to the American Revolution. Marine scientists from North Carolina State University, Duke University and the University of Oregon discovered the wreck on…

Jul 13, 2015

The Science House @ CMAST Summer Programs!

The Science House @ CMAST (TSH@CMAST) has a lot of programs going on this summer. Below, please check out a summary of what they have on deck:   Burroughs Wellcome Student Science Enrichment Students who will be attending Morehead Middle School, Newport Middle School, and Pamlico Middle School are invited to participate in an exciting…

Jul 13, 2015

The Science House @ CMAST Joins Teen Science Network

The Center for Marine Sciences and Technology is the newest member of the Teen Science Café Network. Science Café programs engage scientists and the public in conversation on interesting science topics in a highly social setting. The model was established in England, and its popularity led to rapid spread in various forms throughout the world.…

Jul 13, 2015

The Science House @ CMAST partners with The Bridge Downeast

(This article is reprinted from an article by Cheryl Burke in The Carteret County News-Times). Landon Tunstall, a rising eighth-grader at Down East Middle School, is interested in engineering and science. He wants to be a pilot when he grows up. “My favorite subject is science and I’d like to be in the Air Force or…

Jun 3, 2015

Teen Coastal Cafe — June 12th- Meet Dr. Chuck Weirich

The Teen Coastal Science Café will meet on Friday, June 12th at 5:30-7:30 pm at CMAST (303 College Circle, Morehead City, NC 28557). Come meet Dr. Chuck Weirich, who recently joined North Carolina Sea Grant as a marine aquaculture specialist. In his new duties, Dr. Weirich will focus on developing North Carolina’s marine aquaculture industry,…

May 20, 2015

CMAST’s Michael Stoskopf Scores BioTech Grant

CMAST’s Michael Stoskopf, NC State professor of aquatics, wildlife and zoologic medicine and of molecular and environmental toxicology, has been awarded ab Institutional Development Grants from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBiotech) to fund new lab equipment. Dr. Stoskopf will receive $72,500 for a recycling system that will reduce by at least 90 percent the use of…

May 10, 2015

NC State CVM Students Attend 2015 Fish Med Selective at CMAST

NC State College of Veterinary Medicine students completed an intensive course of clinical work and lectures at the week-long Advanced Fish Medicine Selective at CMAST this month. The course was the first time the majority of these students had ever had hands-on clinical experience with marine life. Selectives are courses CVM students take to familiarize…

May 7, 2015

Semester @ CMAST Launched

In Spring, 2016, a special class of undergraduates will be bound for the coast to participate in an intensive hands-on semester in marine science for the first Semester @ CMAST (S@C). Twenty to twenty-five NC State undergraduate students will spend their 2016 spring semester as resident students at CMAST, NC State’s Center for Marine Sciences and…