Megan McDeavitt
WHQR/UNCW News Graduate FellowMegan McDeavitt is a filmmaker from Boone, NC. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Filmmaking at UNCW, and her AAS in Marine Technology at CFCC. She's worked in local journalism throughout North Carolina before returning to school, where she focuses on strengthening her creative storytelling and looking at environmental issues within the community.
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Cape Fear River Watch is working to reduce macro plastics in a portion of Burnt Mill Creek. -
Three significant trees were removed without permits from a new development site behind Mayfaire in Wilmington. In addition to paying fines, Zimmer will have to plant new trees. -
About once a week, members from Cape Fear River Watch are out on the street collecting litter data. WHQR looked at how they're doing it and why it matters. -
CFCC's Marine Technology program sends students out to sea, readies them for sustainable energy jobsThe Marine Technology program at Cape Fear Community College has training cruises underway for the summer. The skills they learn could be invaluable for companies scouting locations for off-shore wind power.
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Three new additions came to the Asian small-clawed otter family at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher. WHQR checked in on pups to see how they were doing. -
The Coastal Conservation Association of North Carolina has partnered with NATRX, a sustainable infrastructure company, to deploy a 3-D printed artificial reef system to the Pamlico Sound. -
While the rest of North Carolina may be off track on meeting climate goals, Wimington is actually on track to cut emissions. -
On Tuesday evening, the progressive advocacy group Women Organizing for Wilmington, or WOW, gathered at the New Hanover County courthouse in response to the leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe vs. Wade, the landmark case that help establish abortion rights. -
Students completing the Marine Technology program at Cape Fear Community College are required to spend a little over a month at sea in order to get their degree. -
Keep New Hanover Beautiful, an environmental non-profit organization, works to reduce litter and improve recycling efforts in Wilmington. They recently installed three Seabins in the Cape Fear River.
