Located on Roanoke Island, the institute's research focuses on: estuarine ecology and human health; coastal engineering and ocean energy; public policy and coastal sustainability; and maritime heritage.
"It is the mission of the UNC Coastal Studies Institute to undertake research, offer educational opportunities, provide community outreach programs, and enhance communication among those concerned with the unique history, culture and environment of the maritime counties of North Carolina."
a self-regulating, unfiltered, non-hierarchical register, open to accredited researchers and analysists, of all apparent and competing risks to sustainability, where these can be backed up by evidence. Not a data-base in the simple sense, the main function is to allow authors to state, register and to promote any specific risk that they have identified in a summarised, common, accessible format, including proposed causal paths. The entry would link back to the authors own site or orginal papers.
a science game: "a virtual Darwinian aquarium .. you initiate a primordial soup, and .. check up on what Virtual Mother Nature is up to - about every 15 min. (or every few days)"
huge portal site, across disciplines; "...other terms are sometimes used in place of place, such as home, dwelling, milieu, territory, and of course, space. None of these, though, are necessarily equivalent to the notion of place."