Volunteers in the Mobile Bay Oyster Gardening Program grew more than 50,100 oysters this season. These people and organizations make the restoration program work: volunteers, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant, Mobile Bay National Estuary Program, Alabama Clean Water Partnership – Coastal Basin, The Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Auburn University Shellfish Lab, the Auburn University Department of Fisheries…
Author: Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant
Bays and Bayous brings 364 people to Biloxi
The 2012 Mississippi-Alabama Bays and Bayous Symposium attracted 364 people for two days of presentations about current coastal research and outreach. People from 10 states attended the event, where 185 presenters shared information in five different sessions.
Residents can make rain barrels at Spanish Fort workshop
(Mobile, Ala.) – Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant, in partnership with the Coastal Alabama Clean Water Partnership and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, will hold a rain barrel workshop from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Sept. 29, at Spanish Fort City Hall, 7581 Spanish Fort Blvd., in Spanish Fort. Workshop participants will learn about important water quality and conservation…
Journal of Extension – Resilience Index
Journal of Extension – Resilience Index
Here’s an article about the Coastal Community Resilience Index in the Journal of Extension. Sea Grant in each Gulf of Mexico state has worked with this index.
Surge, wave gauges deployed for Hurricane Isaac research
As part of an ongoing storm surge and wave monitoring project for Dauphin Island, Ala., scientists recently deployed five surge/wave gauges and an atmospheric pressure gauge to record the effects of Hurricane Isaac as it passes through the area. The gauges were deployed early Monday morning (8/27/2012) with the help of University of South Alabama Assistant Professor…
What in the world is a weir?
A weir is a small dam that is used to collect water runoff from agricultural fields. They have been proven effective in reducing contaminants from water effectively. Here, Robbie Kroger, back, and Chris Boyd put one together. A weir made of rocks was installed yesterday and today at the Mississippi State University Coastal Research and…
Zeke’s Landing Marina pioneers fish recycling program
Zeke’s Landing Marina, the first Clean Marina in Alabama, and Protein Products, Inc., a leader in servicing premier pet food companies, have created a way to keep fish carcasses from being taken to landfills. A newly launched fish recycling program, sponsored in part by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, is repurposing fish parts that are…
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