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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- Hurricane storm surges in North Carolina
- In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 6
- Figure 3 shows the bottom of the exhibit shown in Figure 2 and provides data on recent hurricanes in North Carolina. Those shown are four of the storms of the 1990s but do not include Dennis and Floyd in 1999, both of which occurred just weeks before the...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Hurricane-resistant construction
- In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 23
- Figure 20 shows construction of a house clearly designed to function as a pier during extreme weather. Note the number and size of the support timbers and the surf breaking on the beach in the near background. Rarely does one see human efforts to overcome...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Hurricanes and coastal development
- In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 1
- North Carolina's location at the eastern end of the southeastern U.S. coastline makes it a frequent site of hurricane landfalls. These landfalls are a regular feature of the state's climate, as they are a natural outcome of the its proximity to the most frequent...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Immature Spruce and Fir on Round Knob
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- Interior of a groundhog kiln
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 19
- Figure 17 shows the interior of a groundhog kiln during firing. Note the cherry-red color of the pots as the clay within them fuses together to make them hard and impervious. This is where the magical transformation of mud to stone occurs. This photograph...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Interior of a groundhog kiln
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- Interior of a kiln
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 18
- Figure 16 shows the interior of the kiln shown in Figure 15. The shape of the roof was achieved by building a wooden frame that looked like an upturned boat in the interior to support the firebricks of the roof until the full structure was complete and self-supporting....
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Interior of spruce-fir forest
- In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 13
- Figure 11 shows an interior view of the spruce-fir forest on Roan High Knob. Note that trees of all sizes occur here, that they are crowded together so densely that some even grow on top of boulders as is the case in the foreground. Note also that dead trees...
- By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Interior of Spruce-Fir Forest
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- Intertidal sand flat salt marsh plants
- In A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect, page 5
- Figure 3 shows a place where salt marsh plants have just become established on an intertidal sand flat. This is a relatively rare occurrence, because most marshes increase in size as a result of vegetative reproduction in which roots and similar underground...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Jocassee Gorges
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- Jockey's Ridge
- In Natural and human impacts on the northern Outer Banks, page 9
- Jockey's Ridge is the largest of the four remaining large dunes on the Outer Banks. The dune's immense size and its proximity to economic interests such as Route 158 have resulted in various attempts to control its migration. But the planting of American beach...
- By Blair Tormey and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Jockey's Ridge
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- Keeping Oregon Inlet open
- In Natural and human impacts on the northern Outer Banks, page 17
- At the southern end of the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge, the foundations are in serious jeopardy, as the channel of Oregon Inlet continues to migrate southward. To protect the bridge, the Army Corps of Engineers has constructed an extensive seawall to armor the...
- By Blair Tormey and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Kiln Interiors
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- The King's Governors' Restrictions on Potters
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- Land & Marsh
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- Land & Marsh
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- A land of many wetlands
- In Wetlands of the coastal plains, page 1
- Eastern North Carolina is a land of many wetlands. More than forty different types have been identified by botanists with the state's Natural Heritage Program. Geographically, this wetland heritage was achieved in the most straightforward way: all of the land...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Lethal Effect
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