AWARDS/RECOGNITION
NC IDEA FOUNDATION (www.ncidea.org), $50,000 Start-Up award, Spring 2016 Seed Grant competition
SANDBAR’s Atlantic Emerald™ oyster featured in Rowan Jacobsen’s “The Essential Oyster”, published October 2016.
UNC KickStart Venture Services Program Start-Up Award, $34,000, Spring 2017
Finalist, 2017, FISH2.0 Global Business Challenge in Sustainable Fisheries
North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center, 2017 Rural Entrepreneurs of the Year
EVENTS
Beaufort (NC) Food and Food Festival (April 2017) - featured Sandbar Oyster Company’s Wild Pony oysters paired with Ty Ku Saki
23rd Annual Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, North Carolina (November 8-12, 2017) (http://www.cucalorus.org), Cucalorus Oyster Party featured Sandbar Oyster Company oysters; the Oyster Party was attended by over 600 people – the biggest social event at the Festival! – see also “Clammerhead”, a short film by Natalie Taylor shown during the “Pig Nose Shorts” session (https://vimeo.com/92699719)
SANDBAR’s Atlantic Emeralds™ presented to a national/international audience at the 2018 North American Seafood Expo (Boston, March 11-13, 2018) through a collaboration with Tres Hundertmark of NCOyster365
Atlantic Emerald™ one of 5 featured oysters (also featured: Belon, Huma Huma, Kumamoto and Olympia) at the “For the Love of Oysters” event at Les Sablons in Cambridge, Massachusetts (March 14, 2018)
MEDIA
February 17, 2016 (Tasting Table): http://www.tastingtable.com/travel/national/green-oysters-north-carolina-fines-de-claires-gills-france-clammerhead
April 8 & 9, 2016, NPR Public Radio East – The Down East Journal, http://publicradioeast.org/post/scientist-and-local-fisherman-work-restore-oysters-crystal-coast
April 14, 2016, North Carolina Coastal Federation, Coastal Review Online, http://www.coastalreview.org/2016/04/13895
May 2, 2016 http://www.newsobserver.com/news/technology/article74765387.html
June 3, 2016 (WRAL, Raleigh, reporter Richard Adkins) - http://www.wral.com/scientist-fisherman-combine-to-boost-oysters-off-nc-coast/15751275
June 9, 2016 http://exitevent.com/article/ncidea-sandbar-oyster-company-boosts-oyster-growth-nc-and-beyond-with-IP-160609
November 10, 2016 UNC TV, NC NOW, Bob Garner - http://video.unctv.org/video/2365882336/?utm_content=buffer023d9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer or http://video.unctv.org/video/2365882298
February 3, 2017, NOAA, National Sea Grant Program
http://seagrant.noaa.gov/News/FeatureStories/TabId/268/ArtMID/715/ArticleID/731/Growing-Better-Bivalves-Science-local-knowledge-enhance-NC-business.aspx
April 11, 2017, National Geographic Ocean Views
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/11/oysters
April 26th, 2017 (WRAL, Raleigh, reporter Richard Adkins) – http://www.wral.com/beaufort-oyster-industry-explores-agritourism/16666832/
July 7, 2017, North Carolina Sea Grant, Coastwatch – summer edition 2017
October 12. 2017, NC Coast Magazine - http://nccoast.com/food/the-science-of-fishing/article_2b217406-af55-11e7-98cd-fb24c03a9c24.html