Coastal Heritage Archive
Coastal Heritage is the quarterly publication of the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium, a science-based state agency supporting research, education, and outreach to conserve coastal resources and enhance economic opportunity for the people of South Carolina.

Winter 2018
Designing for Water: Strategies to Mitigate Flood Impacts

Fall 2018
First Impacts: Natural Systems Face Sea-Level Rise

Summer 2018
Tank to Table: How Single Oyster Mariculture Works

Spring 2018
Passing the Torch: Mentoring the Next Generation

Fall 2017 / Winter 2018
Stormwater Ponds: The Coast Re-Plumbed

Summer / Fall 2017
Love for Natural Places: How It Shapes Our Coast and Affects Us All

Spring 2017
New Technology: Driving Advances in Coastal Science

Winter 2017
Trailblazers of the Reconstruction Era

Fall 2016
Communities Under Water: Lessons Learned from Extreme Floods

Summer 2016
S.C.’s Working Waterfronts: Fishing Villages Evolve

Spring 2016
Career Jump-Start: Cultivating the Future Workforce

Spring 2015
The Wonders of Discovery: Reviving Interest in Natural History

Fall 2014
Water Cities: Can We Climate-Proof the Coast?

Summer 2014
The Global Plastic Breakdown: How Microplastics Are Shredding Ocean Health

Spring 2014
On the Waterfront: Can Traditional Industries Survive Explosive Change?

Winter 2014
Carolina’s Gold Coast: The Culture of Rice and Slavery

Fall 2013
Red Lionfish: A “Super-Invader” for Supper?

Spring / Summer 2013
Climate Change and Extreme Weather

Winter 2013
Lowcountry Living Shorelines: Restoring Carolina’s Reefs

Fall 2012
Emancipation Day: The Freed People of Port Royal

Summer 2012
No Worries? The New Science of Risk and Choice

Spring 2012
Lowcountry’s Fishing Future: Are Locavores the Answer?

Winter 2012
Calm After the Storm? Disasters and Mental Health

Fall 2011
Urban Thinker with an Ecologist’s Eye: Jane Jacobs’ Legacy

Summer 2011
Water’s Edge: Managing Coastal Runoff

Spring 2011
Carolina Diarist: The Broken World of Mary Chesnut

Winter 2011
The Arts of Science: A Search for Visual Ecology

Summer/Fall 2010
Coastal Heritage: Celebrating 30 Years

Spring 2010
The Dynamic Coast: Living with Shoreline Change

Winter 2010
Offshore Wind: Testing the Waters

Fall 2009
The Lowcountry’s Jazz Age: Gift of Story and Song

Summer 2009
Sea-Level Rise: Adapting to a Changing Coast

Spring 2009
Disaster Resilience: 20 Years After Hugo

Winter 2009
Cold-Water Corals: Ancient Life in the Deep, Dark Sea

Fall 2008
Exploring Early Carolina’s Natural Riches

Summer 2008
Climate Change and Ocean Health

Spring 2008
Slowing Stormwater: Improving Water Quality by Imitating Nature

Winter 2008
Breaking the Chains: The End of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Fall 2007
Our Changing Waterfronts

Summer 2007
Will Climate Change Devastate Coastal Property Insurance?

Spring 2007
Knocking Back Biological Invaders

Winter 2007
Rising Tide: Will Climate Change Drown Coastal Wetlands?

Fall 2006
Discovery Learning Comes of Age

Summer 2006
African Roots, Carolina Gold

Spring 2006
After the Storm

Winter 2005-2006
Building Green: A New Path

Fall 2005
Keeping Watch: Technologies Track Forces of the Sea

Summer 2005
Old Cities, New Life

Spring 2005
Ancient Tools: Searching for the First Americans

Winter 2004-2005
Gullah’s Radiant Light

Fall 2004
The Coast’s Great Leap

Summer 2004
Hanging in the Balance: America’s Fishing Industry

Winter 2003
A Line in the Sand: Nourishing South Carolina’s Beaches

Summer 2003
Hothouse Planet

Spring 2003
Nature or Nurture?

Winter 2002-2003
The Freeway City

Fall 2002
Rise and Fall and Rise: South Carolina’s Maritime History

Summer 2002
Floyd Follies: What We’ve Learned

Spring 2002
Where Have all the Joiners Gone?

Winter 2001
Triumph of the Weed

Fall 2001
Coastal Growth Hits Home

Summer 2001
Shrimp Aquaculture: Challenges and Potential

Spring 2001
The Bird Chase

Winter 2000
The Salty Dogs

Fall 2000
The Beauty of Sprawl

Summer 2000
S.C. Sea Grant Consortium: Five-Year Report

Spring 2000
Living Soul of Gullah

Winter 1999-2000
Reviving Eden

Fall 1999
Riches to Ruin: Pharaohs of the New World

Summer 1999
Storm Front

Spring 1999
Nature’s Lessons: A Closer Look

Winter 1998-1999
You Are Here: New Horizons for Geography

Fall 1998
Pfiesteria Hysteria: Just When You Thought it Was Safe

Summer 1998
Early Europeans in America: Hurricanes Steer the Course of History