18 02, 2013

Gregg Holshouser’s Outdoors Column | Algae plagues anglers – The Sun News

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Dr. Erik Sotka, Associate Professor of Biology at the College of Charleston and noted algae expert, weighed in on the subject. “Polysiphonia and ulva will bloom after the fishes and crabs stop feeding, usually by January,” Sotka said. “They will start to disappear by spring, when the waters get warm enough for feeding to increase.”

18 02, 2013

Southern governors implore Interior nominee Sally Jewell to drill off their coasts – The Sun News

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Mitchell Colgan, the chairman of the geology department at the College of Charleston, said such talk was just politics. He said there wasn’t much oil off the coast of South Carolina. And the nation already has a glut of cheap natural gas and doesn’t need more from the Atlantic, he said. The economics don’t work,

18 02, 2013

Colbert Busch: Brother won’t overshadow SC race – The Sun News

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Brian McGee, a professor of communications at the College of Charleston, said Colbert Busch is well-respected in Charleston, but her famous brother might pose some challenges to her campaign. "One is the risk of sort of having to live in the shadow of her much better known brother," he said. "Another is the possibility that