Three research students, Karitsa Williams, Anthony Anderson, and Kaiem Frink performed their summer research at the NOAA Beaufort Laboratory in Beaufort, North Carolina. Karitsa worked with Dr. Don Field and Dr. J. Kenworthy studying the distribution and extent of seagrass in the Core and Bogue Sounds areas of North Carolina, and comparing these data to existing seagrass maps created in the late 1980's and early 1990's to identify areas of change. Anthony and Kaiem worked with Dr. Michael H. Prager developing an interface between two software packages, AD Model Builder (ADMB) and the statistics package R. The ADMB language is used to fit models and then R is used to graph them.