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NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PLAIN EARTH SCIENCE COALITION Prepared for the North Carolina Coalition Steering Committee by W. Burleigh Harris University of North Carolina at Wilmington Background On 6 January 2000, 31 individuals from State and Federal agencies and universities met in Raleigh, North Carolina to discuss the initiation of a cooperative research venture (Coalition). The focus of this Coalition is to organize and implement a strategy for maximizing the collection of subsurface data through a series of core holes placed at strategic locations in the North Carolina Coastal Plain. This Coalition was formed because the solutions to geologic and hydrogeologic problems require a common database that crosses the traditional domains of State and Federal agencies and academic institutions. Representatives of the following State agencies attended the meeting: the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Land Resources, Geological Survey; the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Water Resources; and the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Water Quality. The following universities were represented: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, East Carolina University, Duke University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Representatives from the following offices of the U.S. Geological Survey were present: the Water Resources Division, Raleigh Office; and the Geologic Division, Eastern Earth Surface Processes Team and the National Geologic Mapping Program. Mission Statement The primary research objective of the Coalition is to develop a better understanding of the physical framework of the regional ground water system of the North Carolina Coastal Plain. This physical framework consists of a wedge of sediments and rocks that generally dip and thicken seaward from a feathe