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INSIDE: Cover Story: 5 Fisheries Management Internship 9 Preventing Surf Zone Injury 12 Collaboration with DSU DIRECTOR'S LETTER DELAWARE SEA GRANT n everything we do, the people of Delaware Sea Grant (DESG) strive to find ways to serve our fellow citizens while advancing knowledge and I student success. Whether we are working on community development, education, coastal resiliency or aquaculture, our guiding principle is always to bring the best science and achieve the greatest benefit for Delaware’s citizens, our communities and the unique environment we call home. To do this, DESG invests a great deal of time, energy and resources into supporting research and education. Every research project funded by DESG includes funding for a graduate student. We strive to provide opportunities for students to learn and serve their community both in and out of the lab, and to develop the skills they will need to make a positive impact. Since 1979, Delaware Sea Grant has sent 37 students to Washington, D.C. as Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellows. These are prestigious positions by which fellows gain experience working in the federal government for a year. Our most recent fellows were Lauren Knapp, a doctoral candidate in the University of Delaware College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE) and Katrina Tomacek, J.D., from American University. Laura completed a successful year as a Knauss Fellow at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Katrina worked as a fellow in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement. Delaware Sea Grant Knauss Fellow Lauren Knapp graduated from the program in January at a ceremony with Rear Admiral In an effort to expand fellowship opportunities for our students closer to home, we are Tim Gallaudet, assistant secretary of commerce for oceans and connecting with local partners here in Delaware to develop these relationships into an even atmosphere (left); Craig McLean, assistant administrator for larger part of DESG’s commitment to student education and service to our community. In this NOAA research (second from right); and National Sea Grant report, you can read about a successful partnership in 2017 with the Delaware National Estuarine Program Director Jon Pennock (right), a UD CEOE alumnus. Research Reserve, where CEOE graduate student Julia Guimond had a year-long research fellowship (page 13). Another partnership with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control hosted CEOE graduate student Lane Johnston for a fellowship in the Fish and Wildlife Division (page 5). I expect in next year’s report we will have several additional successful partnerships to share as well. Everything DESG does ultimately comes down to people. The people we serve, and the people who have contributed their time and talents to making DESG what it is today. I can’t end this letter without thanking the acting director who preceded me, Ed Lewandowski. Ed provided steadfast leadership while advancing Delaware Sea Grant’s mission through recruiting new Marine Advisory Service (MAS) specialists, deepening our partnership with Delaware State University, and helping to create our new approach to giving students additional fellowship opportunities. DESG Director Kathy Coyne (center) and CEOE Dean Estella Atekwana (right) thanked Ed Lewandowski for his service as the acting Kathryn Coyne director of both the Marine Advisory Service and DESG overall Director, Delaware Sea Grant College Program at a recent meeting of the Sea Grant Advisory Council. DELAWARE SEA GRANT DESG ANNUAL REPORT 2018 | VOL. 37 2 DELAWARE SEA GRANT ADVISORY COUNCIL STAFF DIRECTORY The Delaware Sea Grant Advisory Council—the statewide external advisory Administration Environmental Public body to the Delaware Sea Grant College Program—was created in 1974. Education Kathy Coyne Its members hail from marine-oriented business and industry, resource Director Mark Jolly-Van Bodegraven management and engineering firms, state government, public interest groups, Director the pre-college educational sector and the media. Working within the national Edward Lewandowski Acting Director, Marine Advisory Service Tammy Beeson priorities identified by the National Sea Grant College Program, the council Art Director helps further define priority coastal issues relevant to Delaware. Mark Jolly-Van Bodegraven Director, Environmental Public Education Pam Donnelly Communications Specialist I Jennifer Adkins Kate Hackett Christopher Moore Lisa Ridenour Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Delaware Wild Lands, Inc. Mid-Atlantic Fishery Fiscal Officer/Assistant Director, Sea Grant Michael Graw Management Council Gene R. Bailey Simeon Hahn and Sponsored Programs Digital Outreach Specialist Diamond State Port Corporation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Betsy Reamer Karen Roberts Administration (NOAA) Lewes Chamber of Commerce Marine Advisory Service Communications Specialist II Bill Baker & Visitors Bureau Jeanie Harper Bill's Sport Shop Edward Lewandowski Seafood Retailer (retired) Michelle Rodgers Contributing photographers: Chris Bason University of Delaware Coastal Communities Development Daniel J. Leathers Specialist, Acting MAS Director Kathy Atkinson Delaware Center for the Inland Bays Tammy Beeson Office of the Delaware Dave Saveikis Mark Biddle John Ewart Doug Baker State Climatologist, DNREC* Brooke Carney DNREC* University of Delaware Aquaculture, Fisheries, and Jennifer Clemons F. Gary Simpson Water Quality Specialist Karen Falk Ruth Briggs-King Sharon Lynn Michael Graw Delaware General Assembly Jamē McCray Delaware General Assembly City of Rehoboth Beach Evan Krape Halsey Spruance Environmental Social Scientist Julie Leibach Kimberly Cole Dyremple Marsh Tye Pettay Delaware Museum of Natural History Christopher Petrone Delaware Coastal Programs Delaware State University Judy Rolfe DNREC* Hilary Valentine Marine Education Specialist Sarah M. Simon David B. McBride Delaware Technical Lisa Tossey Danielle Swallow UD Communications & Marketing Sarah Cooksey Delaware General Assembly Community College The Nature Conservancy Delaware Coastal Hazards/Climate Tonyea Mead Katherine Ward Resilience Specialist Gerard Esposito The University of Delaware is an equal Delaware Department of Education Delaware Press Association opportunity/affirmative action employer Delaware Sea Grant Edward Whereat and Title IX institution. For the University’s Advisory Council Chair William J. Miller, Jr. Stuart Widom Citizen Monitoring Program Coordinator complete non-discrimination statement, please visit http://www.udel.edu/home/ Tidewater Utilities, Inc. Delaware River and Bay Authority Calpine Corporation legal-notices/. (retired) Namsoo Suk 13-0418-579-web Delaware Sea Grant’s horseshoe crab Delaware River Basin Commission model has been a popular outreach Brenna Goggin and teaching tool since 1996. Last Delaware Nature Society, Inc. year, DESG updated information on how it meets science standards to help educators integrate it into their curricula and its impact went * Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control worldwide. Learn more on page 14. he breadth of work undertaken by DESG can make it hard to grasp the program’s overall impact. The rest of this Reporter is organized into the National Sea Grant College Program’s four focus areas to allow readers to dig into the specific work in each topic area. But to start, presented below are some numbers to provide a snapshot of the work overall, and on the facing page we have news of the ways in which DESG staff have been honored for their innovation and hard work this past year. IN 2017, DESG TAFF AUGHT: S T economic 45 development professionals about renewable energy opportunities The year’s new DESG environmental social scientist Jamē McCray (second from right) teaches students about wind energy 15 Second Science during a field trip to Delaware Technical and Community College’s campus in Dover. episodes were 847 531 100 viewed K–12 students educators people about 33,9 3 directly wind energy times 55 672 attendees oysters were used in a preliminary investigation of new disinfecting technologies at DSU at DESG workshops on aquaculture opportunities DESG ANNUAL REPORT 2018 | VOL. 37 4 The William Q. Wick Visionary Career Falk Receives National Leadership Award for Administration Sea Grant Extension Award— recognizes outstanding career achievement, William Q. Wick Visionary Jim Falk leadership, vision, and contributions to Sea served Career Leadership Delaware Grant Extension through programming or Sea Grant administration by a Sea Grant extension professional. Falk not only led the day- im Falk served Delaware Sea Grant for 39 years. to-day operations of Delaware Sea Grant for 39 years, most of them as associate for much of his career, he also authored director of the program and director many publications researching residents’ of the Marine Advisory Service, the perceptions of coastal issues, providing extension office of DESG. When he retired information and support for tourism, and in 2017, DESG lost a knowledgeable summarizing the achievements of Delaware advocate for our communities and an Sea Grant for national audiences. invaluable leader. His impact on the Sea Grant College Program, not just here in His dedication to the program and the Delaware, but across the country, was people of coastal Delaware whom it serves recognized by the National Sea Grant made Falk a terrific leader and gained the organization with the William Q. Wick attention of all