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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- Beach and berm of Masonboro Island
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- Beach erosion
- In Small sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 16
- Figure 14 shows how beach erosion has undermined the deck and foundations of the houses in the foreground and apparently has threatened to do the same in the multifamily dwelling behind them. Note the remnants of an earlier dune on the right, and the roadway...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Beach Erosion
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- Beachfront dune
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 12
- Figure 11 shows a close up view of the largest beachfront dune in Figure 10 (the steep fronted one in the left background of that photograph). In this close-up view you can see that this dune is already starting to be restored by sand collecting at its base....
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Beachfront Dune
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- Beachfront erosion
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 17
- Figure 16 shows another example of beachfront erosion. This house has fallen victim to a repositioning of Bogue Inlet as a result of Hurricanes Bonnie and Fran in 1996. The inlet between Bear Island and Bogue Bank had once been located here, but during a 20-year...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Beachfront House (Beachfront House)
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- A beachfront house threatened by erosion
- In Evidence of rising sea level: Coastal erosion and plant community changes, page 3
- Figure 2 shows a beachfront house being undercut by waves. Unfortunately, this kind of damage happens frequently as sea level rises and erosion eats into the shoreline. Erosion into housing areas usually occurs when something happens to increase the local...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Beachfront mansion
- In Small sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 15
- Figure 13 shows a recently built beachfront mansion on the even more recently flattened topography of North Topsail. Note the tilted beach access steps indicative of damage from Hurricanes Dennis and/or Floyd in 1999. Note also the corner iron for the lot...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Beachfront Mansion
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- Bear Island Dunefield(White Oak River Mouth)
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- Bear Island Dunes
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- Bear Island dunes (1)
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 4
- We will begin our trip by visiting Bear Island, the undeveloped island of the pair of large sand volume barrier islands. Figure 3 shows the high volume sand dunes on Bear Island. These dunes are about 50 feet high and cover an area about 5 miles long and one-half...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Bear Island dunes (2)
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 5
- Figure 4 shows the crests of dunes on the landward side of Bear Island and the back-barrier salt marsh stretching toward the mainland. By estimating the distance from the dune crests to the salt marsh surface, we can see that the dunes are tall, and once again...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Bedding planes
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 8
- The quartzite layers that make up the pinnacle of Pilot Mountain also comprise the erosion-resistant cap rocks of Hanging Rock and the two ridges that separate these pinnacles. This uniformity suggests a common origin of this material, and geologists theorize...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Bogue Inlet
- In A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect, page 4
- Figure 2 is a photograph of Bear Island on the south side of Bogue Inlet taken from Bogue Bank, the land that appeared in the distance in figure 1. The dark object in the water is a sand bar formed by sediment that dropped from suspension as flooding tides...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Bogue Inlet
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 10
- Figure 9 shows the Bear Island beach near Bogue Inlet. This area appears as a white band in the right middle distance in Figure 8. Note the almost continuous maritime grassland in the foreground and bare sand stretching back into the salt marsh on the shore...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Bogue Inlet
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- The bottom of the falls
- In Jocassee Gorges: Temperate rain forests of the Blue Ridge, page 16
- As one moves further back from the falls, the spray community becomes even more diverse as grasses and broad-leafed plants find suitable habitats among the boulders and downed trees at the bottom of the waterfalls.
- By Dirk Frankenberg and Stephanie Walters.
- Bottomland hardwood forest inland from the swamp forest
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