Dirk Frankenberg
Dr. Dirk Frankenberg was an internationally known professor of marine sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who spent the last 10 years of his career writing books about North Carolina’s natural beauty and helping to preserve it. Frankenberg led both UNC-CH’s Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City from 1980 to 1993 and its Marine Sciences Curriculum from 1974 to 1990. Before joining UNC-CH in 1974, he served on the University of Georgia faculty and was director of the National Science Foundation’s ocean sciences division from 1978 to 1980.
He was the author of several books, including The Nature of the Outer Banks and The Nature of North Carolina’s Southern Coast, and edited Exploring North Carolina’s Natural Areas, in which he and a large group of North Carolina naturalists introduced state residents and visitors to parks, nature preserves and hiking trails stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Appalachian Mountains.
He also served on numerous boards and commissions including the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission, the N.C. Blue Ribbon Advisory Commission on Oysters and as chair of the Governor’s Advisory Committee on the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. Among his scientific interests were carbon in estuaries and among his educational efforts were promoting scientific careers among minorities and science and nature education on the web.
Dr. Frankenburg died in 2000 at the age of 62.
Resources created by Dirk Frankenberg
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- Dune restoration
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 16
- Figure 15 shows the seaward dune on Bogue Banks in the aftermath of Hurricane Fran and the winter storms of 1998. As we saw on Bear Island, there is no level of sand volume or vegetation coverage sufficient to render seaward dunes immune from storm erosion....
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Dunes nearer the ocean
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 9
- Figure 8 shows the Bear Island dunefield nearer the ocean than those shown in previous photographs and also closer to the inlet that separates Bear Island from Bogue Banks. Bogue Banks, our next stop on this field trip, is a developed barrier island, as you...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Dunes on Bear Island
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- Early Stage Forest
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- Early Succession
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- Early-stage forest
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 8
- Figure 7 shows an earlier and more problematic stage of maritime forest development on Bear Island. Here we see a live oak on which all the seaward branches have been stunted by salt-laden wind off the ocean, leaving only those on the lee side of the trunk...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- East end of Bear Island
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 11
- Figure 10 shows the low dunes and beachfront at the east end of Bear Island. The dunes here have been destroyed by a combination of hurricane winds, storm surge and waves. It is clear from the numerous stumps and dead trunks that this was not a beach in the...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Egret
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- Eighteenth-century pottery (1)
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 9
- Figure 7 shows similarly representative examples of jugs and storage jars on the lower levels, and other utilitarian objects and not so utilitarian objects on the shelves above. The lower shelf has a covered jar and milk crock on the left, and a puzzle jug,...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Eighteenth-century pottery (2)
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 10
- Figure 8 shows a further range of jugs and jars, a churn, and a pitcher. Note that each of these is of slightly different shape and color. Each represents the specific potter and glaze. Potters have individual styles even when repetitively making similar objects...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- An eroded dune
- In Evidence of rising sea level: Coastal erosion and plant community changes, page 4
- Figure 3 shows an eroded dune in front of a beachfront condominium project. As in the case of the house in Figure 2, this beach and dune eroded rapidly during Hurricanes Bonnie and Fran, but rising sea level played a role by bringing the sea up to a level...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Eroded Dune (Dune Restoration)
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- Eroding Power
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- Erosion
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 7
- Another interesting feature of the quartzite is the way it erodes. Its rate of erosion is slow, and thus so is the monadnock's erosion beneath it. But when it does erode, it forms curved surfaces that geologists call “spherical or curved weathering.”...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Erosion
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- Exhibit of hurricane storm surge heights
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- An exposed bald
- In Elevations and forest types along the Blue Ridge Parkway, page 9
- Figure 8 shows a maximally exposed site near the top of Craggy Garden Pinnacle at 5500 feet. Note the exposed rock with pioneer plants growing on the thin soils that have collected in depressions, and the grasses and heath shrubs in the more heavily vegetated...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Extensive salt marsh
- In A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect, page 7
- Figure 5 is a view looking towards the mainland from the high dunes on Bear Island. It shows the extensive salt marsh that has developed on intertidal sands and mud west of Bogue Inlet. These are the marshes you could see in the right-hand background of figure...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Figure Eight Island
- In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 17
- We now turn our attention to Figure Eight Island, a privately owned island about 25 miles north of Oak Island and Hurricane Floyd's landfall. Although Figure Eight Island was not the site of hurricane landfall in 1999, it was in the sector of Hurricane Floyd...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Figure Eight Island
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