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Article: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-PEMBROKE SCIENTISTS PEER INTO BLACK WATERS OF LUMBER RIVER
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 10, 2009
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PEMBROKE, N.C., July 9 -- The University of North Carolina-Pembroke issued the following press release:
Over the years, odes to the Lumber River have been sung by poets, outdoorsmen and Native Americans before them.
But it took a pair of scientists from The University of North Carolina at Pembroke to get a close look at one of the little known creatures lurking beneath the black water.
"Shrimp in the Lumber River?" said Andrew McMillan, a UNCP senior Environmental Science major "I'd never heard of it before."
"I've never seen a one until we started this project," said Dr. Patricia Sellers, an environmental science professor in UNCP's Biology Department.
Two years ago, McMillan was taking ...