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20 <br />2007-10 An environmental pilot study to determine the causes of water quality <br />decline in Midden Creek, Carteret County, NC. With Mark Hooper, Hooper <br />Family Seafoods. NC fisheries Resource Grant. <br />RECENT CONSULTING <br />Consultant to Agropeco, SA, a Paraguay Soybean Farm on establishment of an <br />Ecological Reserve to protect 5000 hectare remnant of Atlantic Tropical Forest. <br />Consultant to Dare County NC Utilities Deparhnent on the impact of a desalinization <br />ocean outfall on benthic animals and periphyton <br />Consultant to the City of Ocracoke on the impacts of expansion of their reverse <br />osmosis plant. <br />Consultant to Hyde County on the biological impacts of a new reverse osmosis plant <br />in Engelhard <br />Consultant to Barton Development Group. Suggestions to protect water quality in <br />Bath Creek at the Bridgewater North development. <br />RECENT PEBLICATIONS <br />2001.Kirby-smith, W., Lebo, M., and R. Herrmann. Nekton variations in tributaries <br />along a hydrologically modified North Carolina estuary. Estuaries. 24(1): 59-68. <br />2003. Kirby-Smith, W., Lebo, M., anal R Herrmann. Importance of water quality to <br />nekton habitat use in a North Carolina branch estuary. Estuaries. 26 (~: 1480-1485 <br />2006. Kirby-Smith, W, and Nancy M. White. Bacterial contamination associated <br />with estuarine shoreline development. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 100{4): 648 <br />- 657. <br />RECENT ACI'IVIITES <br />Scientific Advisory Committee- UNC Coastal Studies Institute <br />Scientist Representative on the NCDWQ Neuse Basin Oversight Committee to <br />implement the Agricultural Nitrogen Reduction rules <br />NC Oyster Restoration Committee <br />NC Strategic Habitats Committee <br />TEACHING <br />Marine Ecology <br />Marine Invertebrate Zoology <br />Coastal Watershed Science and Policy <br />