Christine Reintjes and David June
NOAA Beaufort Lab Oral Histories
Interviews with retired staff of NOAA Beaufort Lab, documenting their academic background, career path, research focus, and reflections on their work in the lab.
Ms. Christine Reintjes was born and raised in Carteret County, North Carolina. She is the daughter of the late John Reintjes, a fisheries biologist at NOAA’s Beaufort Laboratory from 1956 to about 1980. Mr. David June spent his formative childhood years in Carteret County, NC. David’s late father was Fred C. June, a fisheries biologist at NOAA’s Beaufort Laboratory from 1955 to about 1966. Christine and David’s fathers established the Menhaden Program at the Beaufort Laboratory in the mid-1950s. The Program was designed to characterize the menhaden purse-seine fisheries in terms of landings and size and age of the catch, as well as describing the life history and biology of menhaden. Christine and David recount their respective early memories of growing up as children of scientists employed at the Beaufort Laboratory. Their early recollections include collegiality among the researchers and their families, the science community’s interactions with the local populace, menhaden studies and experimentation, and Carteret County as it was in the 1950s and 1960s. Christine still resides in Carteret County. David resides in Washington state.
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