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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- Freshwater marsh and swamp forest; Tidal freshwater section
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- Freshwater marsh with salt marsh fringe at low salinity area
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- From clay to pot
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 12
- The remainder of this field trip is devoted to showing what humans must do to convert the clays recovered from the ground as shown in the first two photographs into the objects shown in Figures 3 through 9. We need to begin by describing what happens to native...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- From freshwater to salt marsh
- In Wetlands of the coastal plains, page 14
- Our boat drifts slowly downstream past swamp forests and freshwater marshes. (My boat of choice for this part of the trip has no motor because I am in no hurry to get past the wildflowers, birds, and abundant wildlife that decorate the lower extremities of...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- From grassy bald to forest
- In Elevations and forest types along the Blue Ridge Parkway, page 11
- Figure 10 shows an early stage in the succession from grassy bald to forest at 5300 feet. Note the grasses growing thickly under the thickening stand of small maples and mountain ash. These trees appear to be saplings, but age determinations of this size trees...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- From northern hardwood to spruce-fir forest
- In Elevations and forest types along the Blue Ridge Parkway, page 12
- The highest elevations of the Blue Ridge are occupied by an evergreen forest of spruce and fir that looks like the great conifer forests of northern Maine and Canada. The transition from northern hardwoods to spruce fir forest is easy to see from a distance...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Gas-fired kiln
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 16
- Figure 14 shows a modern gas-fired kiln in a year-round pottery. If you look closely inside the opening, you can see the remains of one of the ceramic temperature recorders (pyrometric cones) from a recent firing. The small white object on the fourth shelf...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Gneiss and gabbro
- In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 9
- Figure 7 shows a close-up of the contact between the gneiss and the intruded gabbro. The gneiss is at the top. It is light colored and its surface is pocked by erosion. The gabbro is on the bottom, is darker and has a much smoother surface. The knife (shown...
- By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Gneiss and Gabbro
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- Gneiss from Roan Highlands
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- Gorges Creek
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 9
- Further evidence that supports the folding theory can be found at the base of Hanging Rock, where the conveniently located Gorges Creek creates a series of waterfalls that expose the rock surfaces.
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Granite cliffs at Whiteside Mountain
- In Jocassee Gorges: Temperate rain forests of the Blue Ridge, page 6
- Figure 3 shows the topography that concentrates and elevates air currents from the south as they reach the Blue Ridge escarpment. This is a photograph taken from Whiteside Mountain showing the granite cliffs that are its most striking feature as well as the...
- By Dirk Frankenberg and Stephanie Walters.
- Granite Cliffs at Whiteside Mountain
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- Granite Cliffs at Whiteside Mountain
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- A grassy bald
- In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 4
- Figure 2 shows the grassy bald on Round Bald with ancient gneiss exposed in the foreground, and other grassy balds on high ridge crests in the background. The gneiss here looks pretty dull because its separation of minerals is masked by weathering and lichen...
- By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Grassy bald community
- In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 5
- Figure 3 shows another close-up view of the grassy bald community. The nearby Roan High Knob with its spruce/fir forest is in the background. Taken together, Figures 1–3 are designed to give you a sense of how the major plant communities of the Roan...
- By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Grassy Bald Community
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- Grassy Bald on Round Bald
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- Grassy bald with spruce and rhododendron
- In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 10
- Figure 8 shows the grassy bald at the crest of the Roan with spruce-fir forest and rhododendron. Figure 8 also signals a change in this fieldtrip's focus from geology to ecology. The grassy bald mystery deepens with views like the one shown here. The bald...
- By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Grassy Bald with Spruce and Rhododendron
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