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Coastal News Today | NC - Mapping North Carolina's ghost forests from 430 miles up

DURHAM, N.C. Emily Ury remembers the first time she saw them. She was heading east from Columbia, North Carolina, on the flat, low-lying stretch of U.S. Highway 64 toward the Outer Banks. Sticking out of the marsh on one side of the road were not one but hundreds dead trees and stumps, the relic of a once-healthy forest that had been overrun by the inland creep of seawater.
I was like, Whoa. No leaves; no branches. The trees were literally just trunks. As far as the eye could see, said Ury, who recently earned a biology Ph.D. at Duke University working with professors Emily Bernhardt and Justin Wright. ....

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Mapping North Carolina's ghost forests from 430 miles up

Credit: Photo by Emily Bernhardt, Duke University
DURHAM, N.C. Emily Ury remembers the first time she saw them. She was heading east from Columbia, North Carolina, on the flat, low-lying stretch of U.S. Highway 64 toward the Outer Banks. Sticking out of the marsh on one side of the road were not one but hundreds dead trees and stumps, the relic of a once-healthy forest that had been overrun by the inland creep of seawater.
I was like, Whoa. No leaves; no branches. The trees were literally just trunks. As far as the eye could see, said Ury, who recently earned a biology Ph.D. at Duke University working with professors Emily Bernhardt and Justin Wright. ....

North Carolina , United States , Alligator River , Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge , Duke University , Justinp Wright , Emily Bernhardt , Emilys Bernhardt , Justin Wright , Most Of The Alligator River National Wildlife , Duke University Data , National Science Foundation Coastal , Rhodes Information Initiative , Ecological Applications , Alligator River National Wildlife , Hurricane Irene , Cape Cod , Space Science Fellowship , North Carolina Sea , Space Grant , Rhodes Information , Coastal Landscape Driven , Sea Level Rise , Extreme Events , வடக்கு கரோலினா , ஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில் ,