NC EcoTech is kicking off 2025 with a sharpened focus on positioning Eastern North Carolina as a hub for innovation, collaboration, and workforce development in aquaculture and coastal resilience sciences. These efforts aim to strengthen the region’s economy while promoting environmental sustainability.
Ecosystem Technology, or EcoTech, is an emerging branch of applied science that combines understanding of living ecological systems with technological advances to ensure safe and sustainable solutions.
This story was originally published by Grist A new report from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, has found that more fish were farmed worldwide in 2022 than harvested from the wild, an apparent first.
Reprinted from CoastalReview.org.
The University of North Carolina Wilmington said Wednesday that its monthly measure of ocean-related economic activities rose 10.11% in May.
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Cape Fear Community College hosted the Second Annual Small Biz Summit on Saturday.
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 71 grants and loans totaling $2,757,090 to universities, bioscience companies and non-profit organizations in the third quarter of its fiscal year.
On Monday, Governor Cooper joined state officials and environmental protection advocates to take executive action and set new goals to protect and restore North Carolina’s natural resources.
The North Carolina Ecosystem Technology (NCET) group has 13 months and $1 million to put together a proposal vying for a $160 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
A team of North Carolina scientists and researchers have less than two years to develop a proposal that will convince the National Science Foundation that eastern North Carolina is ripe to become an engine of innovative ecosystem technology that could advance a new workforce and a resilient and sustainable economy.
This story was originally published by Economist Impact – World Ocean Initiative. In the culinary realm, the whisper of the ocean carries with it tales of abundant yet ephemeral bounty.
The North Carolina Ecosystem Technology project has been awarded $1 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, to develop an economic engine that could rapidly improve the quality of life in rural coastal communities using ecosystem technology, or ecotech, an emerging branch of applied science.
This story was originally published by PBS NC – Peril & Promise. HYDE COUNTY, N.C — Newman Seafood sits on a spit of land jutting into Pamlico Sound, just outside Swan Quarter.