David Eggleston (photo: Roger Winstead)

David Eggleston to Direct CMAST

David Eggleston, a professor in the Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, has been named director of the Center for Marine
Sciences and Technology (CMAST), located on the Carteret Community College campus at Morehead City, N.C.

CMAST confronts the urgent questions involving coastal ecologies, environments, economies and management policies by fostering multidisciplinary studies among research scientists, educators and extension specialists. CMAST works with other educational institutions and agencies concerned with similar issues, provides local citizens a point of contact with NC State’s marine sciences faculty, and makes educational opportunities available to the community as well as to students.

Resident and rotating faculty at the 51,000- sq.-ft. marine laboratory come from several departments in the colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine. These faculty use CMAST for research, field studies and projects. NC State professional and post-doctoral staff, extension specialists, research technicians, graduate assistants and administrative staff are stationed at CMAST.

Eggleston earned his BS in biology from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., in 1980. He later earned his MS in marine ecology in 1988 and his PhD in marine ecology in 1991, both at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg,Va.

Eggleston replaces CMAST’s first director, David Green, who continues as director of the NC State Seafood Laboratory.

(Source: Scope Magazine, NCSU, Winter 2007)

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