Awards/Events

2025

Coastal Entrepreneur of the Year

2024

NOAA VentureWell

2017

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

2016

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.  

Publications

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eap.2506

https://www.proquest.com/openview/5ea9a3c227ac4d3a1904e278479e6278/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y