NC State faculty and students are helping to keep coastal communities healthy through the North Carolina Center for Coastal Algae, People and Environment.
On a breezy September day, doctoral student Zakir Bulmer sits on the edge of a boat on the Pamlico Sound and allows himself to fall backwards into the water. He’s spending the day scuba diving at different sites across the sound with his advisor, Tal Ben-Horin, an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences.
It’s an enjoyable way to spend the day, but they’re there on business. Ben-Horin and Bulmer spend one day a month collecting water, oyster and blue crab samples on the coast as part of their research for the newly establishedNorth Carolina Center for Coastal Algae, People and Environment (NC C-CAPE).
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