Archive of boomer subbottom data collected during USGS cruise ATSV01005, Outer Banks, North Carolina, July 1-18, 2001

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Ann Swift ◽  
E.R. Thieler ◽  
Jane Denny ◽  
T.F. O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Outer Banks

Economic Impact of Investments in Bicycle Facilities

2005 ◽  
Vol 1939 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Paul Meletiou ◽  
Judson J. Lawrie ◽  
Thomas J. Cook ◽  
Sarah W. O'Brien ◽  
John Guenther
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Outer Banks ◽  
North Carolina Department ◽  
Economic Impact Analysis ◽  
The North ◽  
Spending Patterns ◽  
The One

The northern Outer Banks coastal area in North Carolina is well suited to drawing bicycle tourism because of its geography, climate, and attractions. In 2003, the North Carolina Department of Transportation commissioned a study to examine the value of public investment in bicycle facilities that have been constructed in this area over the past 10 years at a cost of approximately $6.7 million. A particular challenge in conducting this study was that tourists visited the Outer Banks for a variety of reasons, not just for cycling. Thus, the collection of information on the amount and nature of bicycling activity and on the spending patterns of bicyclists in the area was critical for the development of an economic impact analysis. Researchers surveyed cyclists using the bicycle facilities (shared-use paths and wide paved shoulders) and obtained data from self-administered surveys of tourists at visitor centers during the primary tourist season. The data collected were then used to determine the economic impact of bicycling visitors to the area. Seventeen percent of tourists to the area reported that they bicycled while there; this translates to 680,000 people annually. The economic impact of bicycling visitors is significant: a conservative annual estimate is $60 million, with 1,407 jobs created or supported per year. This is almost nine times greater than the one-time expenditure required to construct the facilities. Continued investment in bicycle facilities is expected to increase this favorable economic impact and is therefore recommended.

The Outer Banks of North Carolina (review)

1959 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-332
Author(s):  
Ruby C. Glockler
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Outer Banks

Geospatial Analysis of Barrier Island Width of Two Segments of the Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA: Anthropogenic Curtailment of Natural Self-Sustaining Processes

2008 ◽  
Vol 241 ◽  
pp. 70-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher G. Smith ◽  
Stephen J. Culver ◽  
Stanley R. Riggs ◽  
Dorothea Ames ◽  
D. Reide Corbett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Barrier Island ◽  
Geospatial Analysis ◽  
Outer Banks

Tribes and Towns: What Historians Still Get Wrong about the Roanoke Ventures

Ethnohistory ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-602
Author(s):  
Michael Leroy Oberg
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Outer Banks

Abstract The Theodor De Bry map of the coast of today’s North Carolina has exerted an unfortunate influence over how historians and anthropologists have described and understood the indigenous Algonquian communities of the Outer Banks and the coast of today’s North Carolina, and so how they have interpreted Sir Walter Ralegh’s colonizing ventures. The map is the bedrock on which many scholars have erected their own interpretations of the indigenous polities of the coastal Carolina region. The “tribes” etched by De Bry and described by subsequent scholars, in other words, seldom appear as meaningful entities in the surviving records. By tracing their imagined course, by adding to and elaborating on a map that reflected the biases and preconceptions of European observers, one risks missing much indeed and imposing on the region’s native peoples frameworks of social organization that most likely would have struck them as utterly foreign and wrong.

scholarly journals Lagniappe: Country Music in North Carolina: Pickin' in the Old North State

2009 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Gary R. Boye
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Country Music ◽  
American Music ◽  
Textile Mill ◽  
The West ◽  
Outer Banks ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Moravian Church

While all Southern states share historical connections in culture and geography, North Carolina is in many ways unique. From the Outer Banks to the industrial Piedmont to the High Country of the west, the state has a unique mix of regions and cultures. Music figures prominently in North Carolina, and its musicians reflect the diversity of the geography. The state’s earliest musicians were the Native Americans, especially the Cherokee, whose music has been recorded and studied in some detail. European-American music has flourishedsince colonial days: in Salem, the Moravian church has sponsored the development of sacred choral and instrumental music for over 200 years. In the early twentieth century a distinct African American blues style originated from the textile mill and tobacco towns of the Piedmont region.

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