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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- Climate on north- and south-facing slopes
- In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 16
- Figure 14 shows the interior of a higher elevation forest showing the abundance of birches and beeches that typify the northern hardwoods community. This photo also shows and interesting feature of climate differences on north and south facing slopes. The...
- By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Closer view of an ancient shoreline
- In Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks, page 3
- In Figure 2 we can see the vertical extent of the ridge shown in Figure 1. This is a sand pit dug into the Swansboro Ridge near Bear Island. As you can see, the ridge rises more than 40 feet from the water table (the pond in the lower left background) to the...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Coastal plain blackwater bottomland hardwood forest community (1)
- In A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect, page 17
- Figure 15 shows a coastal plain blackwater bottomland hardwood forest community about 100 yards back from the river. This community has a variety of small trees growing under the canopy trees of oak, maple, sweet gum, and pine. If you look closely at the forest...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Coastal plain blackwater bottomland hardwood forest community (2)
- In A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect, page 18
- Figure 16 show a view of the White Oak where it is usually nothing but a creek-sized stream about 25 feet across and a few inches deep. As you can see, the floodwaters of Hurricane Floyd continue to keep it out of its banks almost two months later. The are...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Coastal plain bottomland forest
- In Wetlands of the coastal plains, page 8
- Figure 6 illustrates a fine river to tour: the Northwest Cape Fear, as it appears in Pender County. The wetland type we see on the far bank is a coastal plain bottomland hardwood community. These communities develop on irregularly flooded habitats along rivers....
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Coastal Plain Bottomland Forest
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- Colonial restrictions on pottery
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 8
- European colonists recognized clay as an important resource in developing their agricultural economy. Surprisingly, the king's governors restricted the manufacture of pottery because the British economic model for the empire (called mercantilism)...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Composition of Pilot Mountain
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 6
- When viewed up close, the pinnacle of Pilot Mountain is seen to be made of almost horizontal layers of rock. This rock is quartzite, and the horizontal lines between the layers are bedding planes that mark the tops of the individual quartzite beds....
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Controlled burn
- In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 10
- Figure 9 shows a longer distance view of the same controlled burn shown in Figure 8. Note that visible fire can only be seen behind the mature tree in the center. Otherwise, the only indication of the fire is the smoke in the background....
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Coquina Beach
- In Natural and human impacts on the northern Outer Banks, page 12
- Storm overwash is one of the more prevalent processes with which humans must cope on the Outer Banks. During storms, large volumes of sand are eroded from the seaward side of the islands and redeposited in large overwash fans, which extend landward across...
- By Blair Tormey and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Creek at Base of Roan Highlands
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- A creek at middle elevations
- In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 18
- Figure 16 shows the same creek as that in Figure 15, but at an elevation about 1000 feet closer to sea level. Note the almost uniform roundness of the boulder edges when compared to those in Figure 15. The boulders here are also smaller than those in Figure...
- By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.
- A creek at the base of Roan Highlands
- In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 19
- Figure 17 shows some of the downstream damage wrought by the January 1998 flood. I regret it is not easy to make out, but the creek is, at this low flow stage, the narrow water body flowing from upper left to lower right at the base of the steep bank from...
- By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.
- Crowder Mountain
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- Cypress savanna
- In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 18
- Figure 17 shows an example of another rare community: a cypress savanna. Savannas are defined as tropical or subtropical grasslands with scattered trees, and in this case the trees are not pines, they are cypresses. Most cypresses in North Carolina occur in...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Cypress Savanna
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- Cypress-gum swamp
- In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 19
- Figure 18 shows a more typical example of the habitat of cypress trees, a cypress-gum swamp. This particular swamp developed in an abandoned mill pond in Camp Lejeune, and the water level was once much higher than that shown here. The dike that formed the...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Cypress-gum swamp
- In Wetlands of the coastal plains, page 10
- As we cruise downstream along our virtual river, we will find places where the river bank is inundated almost all of the time. These habitats support swamp forests dominated by trees adapted to living in flooded soil. The most common type of these forests...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Cypress-gum swamp community
- In Wetlands of the coastal plains, page 13
- When we talk about cypress-gum swamps, we talk mostly about the two dominant trees because often they make up almost all of the plants that live in the community. Most commonly the understory and herb layers of this community are poorly developed because of...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Cypress-Gum Swamps
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