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Community Collaborative Research Projects | NC Water Resources Research Institute Community Collaborative Research Projects The Community Collaborative Research Grant Program, or CCRG, is an innovative funding opportunity that requires research approaches that couple local knowledge with scientific expertise. The CCRG is supported by WRRI and North Carolina Sea Grant, in partnership with the William R.
Kenan Jr. Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science (KIETS). Explore Funded CCRG Projects The table below contains a list of funded CCRG projects dating back to 2020. Use the search bar to search particular topics, researchers, or key words.
If a final report is available, it has been provided as a hyperlink within the title column. For a list of projects funded prior to 2020, contact John Fear ( [email protected] ).
Title Scientific Lead Local Knowledge Expert Year Started In the News Utilizing Advanced Technology for Automated Plankton Sampling and Counting in Hatcheries David Cerino Samuel Thomas 2025 DNA Detectives: Working with Local Charter Fishermen to Understand Shark Depredation Events in North Carolina Joel Fodrie Anthony Procida 2025 Community-led Validation of a Remote Sensing and Deep Learning Approach to Identify Cyanobacteria Harmful Algal Blooms and Toxins in the Chowan River and Tributaries of the Albemarle Sound Lisa Satterwhite Colleen Karl 2025 Supporting Community-Driven Resilience Education and Research Kathryn Stevenson Emma Refvem 2025 Organic Nitrogen Sources in Tributaries to the Chowan River from the Town of Edenton after Rain Events Christopher Osburn Colleen Karl 2024 Direct Potable Reuse for NC State's Centennial Campus: Exploring Water Quality Needs and Regulatory Pathways Emily Berglund Whit Wheeler 2024 Hydrological Connectivity: Improving Coastal Literacy and Resilience in Classrooms and Communities in the City of Wilmington Phil Breshnahan Craig Harris 2024 Bottlenose Dolphin Distribution, Abundance and Health along the Brunswick County Coast/Cape Fear River Region of North Carolina Kim Jones Ryan Camden 2024 Investing in Teacher Expertise to Scale Up a Resilience Curriculum Kathryn Stevenson Jessica Emory and Emma Refvem 2024 Recognizing African American Participation in the North Carolina Seafood Industry Barbara Garrity-Blake, Duke University Marine Lab John Mallette, Southern Breeze Seafood 2023 from NC Catch Embracing ways to engage research in the Walnut Creek Watershed Angela Allen, NC State University Samantha Krop, Sound Rivers 2023 from Sound Rivers Connecting citizen science and youth action within local coastal communities to decrease plastic in our stormwater and advocate for clean water Liz DeMattia, Duke University Marine Lab Lisa Rider, Coastal Carolina Riverwatch 2023 from NC WRRI Spatiotemporal patterns of algal toxin contamination in small and juvenile fish across Albemarle Sound and its tributaries Astrid Schnetzer, NC State University Carlton Godwin, NCDEQ Marine Fisheries Division 2023 from NC WRRI Understanding Plastic Contaminants in Western N.
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Headwaters Jerry Miller, Western Carolina University Eric Romaniszyn, Haywood Waterways Association 2022 from Spectrum News Building Agents of Change in Mecklenburg County through Youth Education, Career Awareness, and Citizen Science Olya Keen, UNC Charlotte Ebone Lockett, Harvesting Humanity, LLC 2022 from NC Sea Grant Reinforcing Resilience: Gleaning Knowledge from the Land and Water of the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe Eric Britt Moore, UNC Wilmington Ashley Patrick Lomboy, Waccamaw Siouan STEM Studio 2022 from WHQR's CoastLine HAPs and HABs: Investigating Associations between air and water quality through community collaborations in eastern North Carolina Hans Paerl, UNC Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Sciences Colleen Karl, Chowan-Edenton Environmental Group 2022 from NC Sea Grant's Coastwatch Using adaptive management to guide the next phase of the New River Estuary Oyster Highway Joel Fodrie, UNC Chapel Hill Pat Donovan-Brandenburg, City of Jacksonville 2021 from CoastalReview Building coastal resilience through youth-led community conversations Kathryn Stevenson, NC State University Vequainn Joyner, Boys and Girls Club of the Coastal Plain 2021 from NC Sea Grant Determining contaminant accumulation and exposures in local shark species from domestic fisheries Scott Belcher, NC State University Captain Charles Locket, F/V Salvation 2021 from NC Sea Grant Hybrid Constructed Wetlands to Further Reduce Nitrogen and Phosphorus Loads from Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants Natasha Bell, East Carolina University Jason Manning, Greenville Utilities Commission 2021 from ECU News Science and Data Support for the Town of Nags Head Estuarine Shoreline Management Plan Reide Corbett, East Carolina University Holly White, Town of Nags Head 2021 Increasing environmental literacy of North Carolina freshwater mussel conservation through a projection mapping exhibit Lindsey Zarecky, Greensboro Science Center Rachel Hoch, NC Wildlife Resources Commission 2021 from NC WRRI Determining the ecological impacts of shellfish relay in North Carolina Joel Fodrie, UNC Chapel Hill Stevenson Weeks, Crab Point Seafood 2020 from NC Sea Grant's Coastwatch Testing Novel Substrates and Approaches to Improve Oyster and Salt Marsh Restoration Rachel Gittman, East Carolina University Brandon Puckett, NC National Estuarine Research Reserve 2020 from NC Sea Grant Speak Your Piece: Coastal Youth, Environment and Community Rose Hoban, North Carolina Health News Nick Szuberla, Coastal Youth Media 2020 from NC Sea Grant's Coastwatch Find NC State websites, locations and people Access vital records, resources and information for students, families, faculty and staff.
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Applications for Community Collaborative Research Grants (CCRG) are due October 26, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
Community Collaborative Research Grants (CCRG) is funded by NC Water Resources Research Institute. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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