Have you heard about the team of Sea Grant fisheries extension specialists, university scientists, and fisheries managers known as the Regional Reef Fish Collaborative? Led by Dr. Marcus Drymon, a marine fisheries specialist with Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, the Collaborative is responsible for gathering, refining, and communicating information about reef fish across the southeastern U.S….
Spirit of Community Awards winners announced
Each year, the Gulf Resilience Community of Practice gives awards recognizing individuals, organizations and communities who have done an exemplary job of communicating resilience challenges in the Gulf of America. The group announced its Spirit of Community Award winners during its annual meeting this June in Houma, Louisiana. The awards were given in three categories:…
Grice elected to World Aquaculture Society Board of Directors
The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium’s Russell “Rusty” Grice, an aquaculture business extension specialist, has been elected as a member of the World Aquaculture Society (WAS) Board of Directors. Grice will serve a three-year term, beginning this month, helping guide the strategic direction of the global organization as it works to advance sustainable aquaculture development. WAS,…
Tornado forecasting has long history
Did you know there was a time in history where the word “tornado” was banned from American weather forecasts? Up until the 1950s, these storms were thought to be so terrible that reporting on them may cause panic. A century ago, the only warning you may have received about an approaching tornado was a neighbor…
Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant makes strong showing as Gulf Guardian
Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium (MASGC)-supported programs are recognized leaders in protecting Gulf ecosystems, increasing resilience in coastal communities and bringing creative environmental literacy activities into classrooms. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Gulf of Mexico Division recently announced its 2022 Gulf Guardian Awards, and MASGC Engagement and Education Team members, their programs and their collaborators…
Team selected to estimate abundance of Greater Amberjack in South Atlantic, Gulf
From a Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium news release. (OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss.) – A team of scientists, selected through a peer-review process organized by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, will conduct an independent study to estimate the number of Greater Amberjack in the U.S. waters of the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico regions. The team…
Science Outreach Team goes back to basics to complete mission
In 2020, the Sea Grant Science Outreach Team delivered seven publications and a whopping 15 webinars. But other than a final webinar in January, nothing new has appeared on gulfseagrant.org, the website that hosts the team’s work. So what have they been up to? The short answer is what they’re always up to—they have been…
Sempier to lead new VORTEX-Southeast Community Outreach Program
From a Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium news release. The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium is pleased to announce that Tracie Sempier, Ph.D., has taken on a new role as the Community Resilience Lead for the VORTEX-SE Program. The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) brings together both physical and social scientists, researchers and…
LSU Grad Student New Coastal Management Fellow
Kerrin Toner, a master’s student in the College of the Coast and Environment at Louisiana State University (LSU), has been selected as a 2020-2022 Coastal Management Fellow. She will work as part of the US Virgin Islands Coastal Zone Management Program for two years as she helps them update the St. Thomas East End Reserves…
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