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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- Grinding clay
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 14
- Figure 12 shows the belt-driven clay grinder, the shovel used to feed the clay into it, and the fine clay dust that coats everything around it. Clay grinding is an unavoidably dusty process but remains an essential part of the process of preparing clay for...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Groins at Cape Hatteras
- In Natural and human impacts on the northern Outer Banks, page 20
- When the lighthouse was threatened by erosion in the early 1960s, the federal government responded with a series of efforts to stem the shoreline's retreat. In 1966, the National Park Service undertook a $300,000 beach replenishment project that pumped sand...
- By Blair Tormey and Dirk Frankenberg.
- High Elevation in Small Headwater Drainage Creek
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- A high-elevation creek
- In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 17
- Figure 15 shows another view of the high-elevation northern hardwoods community with the headwaters of a typical mountain drainage creek. Note the relatively large size and square shape of the stones in the creek. This is what we would expect in small headwater...
- By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Houses built too close to shore
- In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 14
- Figure 11 shows a row of houses near those in Figure 10. These were not set back far from the average high tide line. All of these houses are now on the upper edge of the beach, and sea water washes around their foundations at high tide. There is a real question...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Houses set back from the shoreline
- In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 13
- Figure 10 shows another view of the Oak Island beach after Floyd. The beach here looks much like it did before the hurricane. The only real evidence of damage is the modest cliff formed at the front of the dunefield. There is no evidence of damage to shorefront...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- How did longleaf pine forests become dependent on fire?
- In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 2
- “Fire-dependent forest” seems like an oxymoron — a combination of apparently contradictory terms put together to produce what seems to be a paradox. For southeastern pine savannas, though, the term fire-dependent defines the dominant...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- How Did Longleaf Pine Forests Become Fire Dependent?
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- How do hurricanes cause damage to coastal infrastructure?
- In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 2.1
- A fully formed hurricane carries three major threats to coastal development: low atmospheric pressure, high surface winds, and heavy rainfall. These threats are realized in different ways. Low central pressure becomes a threat when...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- How do hurricanes form?
- In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 2
- Hurricanes begin when areas of low atmospheric pressure move off Africa and into the Atlantic, where they grow and intensify in the moisture-laden air above the warm tropical ocean. Air moves toward these atmospheric lows from all directions and curves to...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- How does decreasing salinity affect blackwater rivers?
- In A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect, page 2
- All rivers that reach the sea have ocean water at their seaward ends, and freshwater at their sources. A trip up a river takes you along a gradient of salt concentration from near 3.5 percent (the average salinity, or salt content, of seawater) to zero. There...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- How is coastal sand formed into barrier islands?
- In Small sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 2
- Coastal sand is organized into barrier islands when three conditions are met: There is a supply of sand sufficient to form islands; sea level is rising; and there are winds and waves with sufficient energy to move the sand around....
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- How were the Jocassee Gorges formed?
- In Jocassee Gorges: Temperate rain forests of the Blue Ridge, page 2
- Basically, erosion formed the Jocassee Gorges. For most of its length, the eastern continental divide, which separates land that drains to the Atlantic Ocean from land that drains to the Gulf of Mexico, runs northeast to southwest parallel to the Blue Ridge...
- By Dirk Frankenberg and Stephanie Walters.
- Hurricane Floyd overwash
- In Small sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 12
- Figure 10 shows the result of an overwash event from Hurricane Floyd in 1999. The pile of vegetation and road tar in the right foreground is evidence of the destruction of a previously existing dune and parking area. In the middle distance we can see the beach...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Hurricane Floyd Overwash
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- Hurricane Fran overwash behind New River Inlet
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- Hurricane Overwash Fan
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- Hurricane overwash fan and houses
- In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 15
- Figure 12 shows some of the sand that was washed off the beach on Oak Island by Floyd. As we saw in the photos of Masonboro and Topsail Islands shown in Figures 6 and 7, some of Oak Island's beach sand ended up in an overwash fan landward of the original dune...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Hurricane Resistant Construction
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- Hurricane storm surges
- In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 5
- Figure 2 illustrates just how high hurricane storm surges can get along the gently sloping shorefaces of the southeastern United States. The photograph is of an exhibit at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The exhibit stands 6.5 feet above mean sea...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
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