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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- Fire
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- Fire and hardwoods
- In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 7
- Figure 6 shows the lethal effect of a recent growing season burn on the hardwoods that were invading this pine forest. The leaves are clearly dead, but the stems may still recover from the relatively cool fire that was allowed to run through this area. This...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Fire!
- In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 9
- Figure 8 shows what you have probably been wanting to see from the beginning: a fire in the longleaf pine savanna. This photograph was taken in the spring of 1999 when controlled burns during the growing season were carried out at many sites within Camp Lejeune....
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- First Human inhabitants
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- Five-year burns
- In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 5
- Figure 4 shows a pine savanna that has been burned at five year intervals. Note the presence of hardwoods in most areas of the forest floor, and that the trees seem to fall into one of three size classes: young trees only a few inches in diameter (some bending...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Flooded marsh
- In Evidence of rising sea level: Coastal erosion and plant community changes, page 10
- Rising sea level also breaks up continuous expanses of salt marsh, like those shown in Figures 6 and 7, into smaller habitats like the one shown here. Isolated islands of salt marsh are often, but not always, a sign of rising sea level and marsh erosion. The...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Flooded Marsh
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- Floyd Damage on Oak Island
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- Floyd Damage on Oak Island
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- Folding Theory: Bedding Planes
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- Folding Theory: Gorges Creek
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- Forest and bald
- In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 11
- Figure 9 shows a patch of spruce-fir forest in the grassy bald on top of Round Knob. This patch suggests that the forest has found a way to invade the bald. That assumption is correct, but doesn't help solve the ecological mystery because we know that this...
- By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Forest floor
- In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 12
- Figure 11 shows the condition of the forest floor two months after a controlled burn in an area which had more hardwood fuel than those illustrated in Figures 9 and 10. Note the large number of burned stems and their dense coverage of areas to the right and...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Forest Floor
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- Forests and fires
- In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 1
- Americans of different eras have viewed forest fires very differently. Most modern Americans view them as natural disasters. They base this opinion on widely publicized devastating fires that have swept through the brushland areas near Los Angeles and Yellowstone...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- The forests of the Blue Ridge Mountains
- In Elevations and forest types along the Blue Ridge Parkway, page 1
- The relationship between elevation and forest types is one of the most striking features of the ecology of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The major determinent of this relationship is climate: Average temperatures in the Blue Ridge decline about 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Forests on the highland plateaus
- In Jocassee Gorges: Temperate rain forests of the Blue Ridge, page 9
- The upper slopes of the Blue Ridge support forests similar to those found at lower elevations much further north. Figure 6 shows one of these that are dominated by the Canadian hemlock and many other species, including the beeches and birches that characterize...
- By Dirk Frankenberg and Stephanie Walters.
- Fort Macon State Park
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 13
- Figure 12 shows the dunefield at Fort Macon State Park on Bogue Banks. This is a typical setting for maritime shrub and forest development. Note the large and well vegetated dunes. These raised mounds of sand are called hummocky dunes — a...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Fort Macon State Park
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- Freshwater marsh and pioneer forest trees; fresh/salt transition
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