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The topic of the December 2024 installment of the “Science on the Sound” Lecture Series at the Coastal Studies Institute on the ECU Outer Banks Campus has been announced. This monthly, in-person lecture series brings perspectives from all over the state and highlights coastal topics in northeastern North Carolina.

This month, the students of the Outer Banks Field Site will present the findings of their Capstone Research Project in a presentation entitled “The Sound of Change: Responses to controlled burns and other changes in the Currituck Sound.” The program will take place at 4 p.m. on December 12 at the Coastal Studies Institute on the ECU Outer Banks Campus.

The UNC-Chapel Hill Institute for the Environment’s Outer Banks Field Site (OBXFS) is a semester-long, interdisciplinary residential learning experience for undergraduate students hosted by the Coastal Studies Institute (CSI) on the East Carolina University (ECU) Outer Banks Campus. Each fall since 2001, OBXFS students have spent the semester taking classes, engaging in internships with local organizations, and completing a Capstone research project as a group.

This year’s Capstone research addresses elements of the Currituck Sound, including the use of prescribed fire as a management tool in marshes and how different stakeholders think about Currituck Sound and their place in it, including the changes they have observed and experienced. The program will last approximately 90 minutes including presentation, questions and discussion.

The program is free and the public is welcome to attend. It will also be live-streamed on the CSI YouTube channel at youtube.com/live/N5p4XmLoGmE those unable to make it in person.

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