Maritime/Coastal Archives

Jun 05, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Graduate students' work in Saipan could help with recovery of servicemen MIA after WWII

ECU maritime studies program professor Dr. Jennifer McKinnon and several graduate students are in Saipan this summer to conduct archaeological surveys of surrounding waters to locate and document sites related...

May 18, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Remains of a possible 1619 Dutch privateer identified in Bermuda

East Carolina University archaeologists working in partnership with the National Museum of Bermuda (NMB) have announced that they may be one step closer to linking an unidentified shipwreck site to...

Conservators at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Project lift a cannon out of its tank during the lab’s annual open house. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 24, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

SCIENCE AND PIRATES

FIRE! The blast of a cannon ripped through the air to the delight of onlookers outside the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Laboratory at East Carolina University during the fourth annual...

Apr 12, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Riverbank erosion in Bangladesh

In North Carolina, coastal communities are faced with environmental change as water interacts with the land. Sea level rise and storm surges are the primary threats, but an understudied issue...

The members of the ECU Board of Trustees toured the Coastal Studies Institute facility Thursday morning and watched a demonstration of a drone used for mapping shoreline erosion over time. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 16, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

TRUSTEES VISIT COAST

The East Carolina University Board of Trustees ventured outside Greenville for its regular meeting on Feb. 15-16, visiting and touring the Coastal Studies Institute in Wanchese. ECU is the administrative...

Students worked in shallow water to document and map the Pappy’s Lane shipwreck.
Jan 31, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

GROUNDED IN HISTORY

With little to go on but fragments of oral history and the scant clues they could glean from a decaying steel hull, a team of East Carolina University maritime studies...

Jan 30, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU graduate student awarded fellowship for work with marine parasites

East Carolina graduate student Christopher Moore was selected as a 2018 North Carolina Sea Grant and N.C. Coastal Reserve Coastal Research Fellow, allowing the Winston-Salem native to fund his marine-life...

Jan 11, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Coastal Studies Institute to host open house

The Coastal Studies Institute (CSI) will host an open house from 1-4 p.m. on Jan. 20 at its campus in Wanchese. The public is welcomed and encouraged to attend this...

ECU students completed a service-learning project involving a mystery shipwreck on the Outer Banks.
Oct 19, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

OUTER BANKS MYSTERY

A mystery shipwreck exhibited outside Nags Head Town Hall has a new sign thanks to East Carolina University art students. The students, now alumni, worked on the project in fall...

Sep 26, 2017
  • ECU News Services

Researchers awarded $1.5 million grant to investigate the future of coastal communities

Andy Keeler, professor of economics at East Carolina University and program head for public policy and coastal sustainability at the UNC Coastal Studies Institute, is part of an interdisciplinary team...