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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- A boulder of Roan Mountain gneiss
- In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 7
- Figure 5 shows a boulder of Roan Mountain gneiss quarried out of the mountainside and doing duty now as a persuasive "No Entry" signal to those thinking of using an off-limits Forest Service road. The bands of quartz show up nicely in this recently exposed...
- By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.
- A Boulder of Roan Mountain Gneiss
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- Burial urns
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 7
- Figure 5 shows some of the largest pots recovered from the Town Creek site. These are burial urns for infants.
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Burned Longleaf Savannah (Longleaf Pine Savanna)
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- Burying Nags Head Woods
- In Natural and human impacts on the northern Outer Banks, page 7
- Figure 6 is a view to the northwest, showing the Run Hill Dune migrating over Nags Head Woods. Notice the steep slope of the southwestern face of the dune, formed by the strong northeast winds.
- By Blair Tormey and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Buxton overwash
- In Natural and human impacts on the northern Outer Banks, page 18
- The Buxton overwash zone is located where the orientation of the island bends to form Cape Hatteras. The Buxton overwash zone has been the site of rapid shoreline retreat, frequent overwash, and the formation of inlets such as the Cape Inlet, Chacandepeco...
- By Blair Tormey and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
- In Natural and human impacts on the northern Outer Banks, page 19
- No structure better symbolizes the human struggle to cope with natural processes of the Outer Banks than the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. The first Cape Hatteras lighthouse was built in 1802, more than 3,000 feet from the coeval shoreline. The base of that first...
- By Blair Tormey and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Carolina sunflower
- In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 16
- Figure 15 shows yet another rare plant from this same ecotone habitat, the Carolina sunflower. Note the conspicuous yellow flower left of center in the upper portion of the photograph.
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Carolina Sunflower
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- Central section of Bogue inlet: sand bar without vegetation
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- Changes in sea level, great and small
- In Evidence of rising sea level: Coastal erosion and plant community changes, page 1
- The level of the sea is always changing. These changes may be small and short-lived, as when water rushes up the beach after waves break, but others are large and long-lived — as has been the case with the post-glacial rise of the present era. Small-scale...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Channeling air from the south
- In Jocassee Gorges: Temperate rain forests of the Blue Ridge, page 7
- A comparable ridge on the east is shown in Figure 4. The two sides of the bowl contain the northward flowing air and force it to rise up over the highlands represented by Whiteside Mountain and other peaks along the Blue Ridge.
- By Dirk Frankenberg and Stephanie Walters.
- Chestnut oak forest
- In Elevations and forest types along the Blue Ridge Parkway, page 3
- Most of the hardwood forests throughout the Piedmont and lower elevations of the Blue Ridge Mountains are classified by ecologists as part of the large and complex Eastern Deciduous Forest biome. This biome covers roughly the eastern third of the United States...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Chestnut Oak: A Common Type of Eastern Deciduous Forest
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- Chestnut Oak: A Common Type of Eastern Deciduous Forest
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- Clay drying
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 13
- Figure 11 shows the clay drying area of a modern pottery. This area has a cement floor and a roof to keep the clay from being rained on as it dries enough to be ground. Note that the raw clay is full of lumps. These have to be pulverized by grinding and hammering....
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Clay Drying and Clay Grinder of Modern Pottery
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- Clay Drying and Clay Grinder of Modern Pottery
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- Clay to Pot Transformation
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- Climate Differences on Different Slopes
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