The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) continues its support of a graduate assistantship opportunity called the Coastal Science Assistantship Program (CSAP). This program provides graduate assistant salaries for three years to Master of Science students both enrolled full-time at Louisiana colleges/universities and involved in research relevant to Louisiana coastal protection and restoration efforts. The Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG)…
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Educational Videos for Commercial Fishermen Available Online
A series of educational videos developed as part of the Louisiana Seafood Academy are now online at http://louisianadirectseafood.com/marketing-videos. The instructional short films are a powerful new tool to aid the seafood industry. Production of the videos was funded by a Rockefeller Grant received by the Iberia Industrial Development Foundation. Both the Louisiana Sea Grant and…
Center for Natural Resource Economics & Policy Announces Second Call for Abstracts
The Center for Natural Resource Economics and Policy (CNREP) is announcing a second call for abstracts for: CNREP 2013: Challenges of Natural Resource Economics & Policy, the 4th National Forum on Socioeconomic Research in Coastal Systems. The conference will be held March 24-26, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This triennial forum focuses on the opportunities and…
Modified gear could increase shrimp catch by 10 percent, limit bycatch
A small portion of Texas’ commercial shrimping fleet is trawling state and federal waters with modified gear that could increase their catch by as much as 10 percent while limiting the amount of unwanted species caught to federally acceptable levels. For an industry that frequently operates on a razor thin margin between profitability and going…
Texas suffers hypoxic areas of its own making
This is one time it’s better that not everything is bigger in Texas. Texas A&M University (TAMU) oceanographer Dr. Steven DiMarco and Oceanography doctoral student Ruth Mullins-Perry have documented periodic hypoxic zones — areas of water with very low levels of dissolved oxygen — off the Texas coast. These Texas zones are often not related…
Texas Sea Grant duo funded to find better BRDs
A federal grant to Texas A&M University may lead to more efficient testing, certification and adoption of improved commercial shrimp fishing gear that will also contribute to the sustainability of the nation’s other fisheries. The Texas Sea Grant College Program’s (TXSG) Gary Graham and Tony Reisinger will use the $83,571 award from the National Oceanic…
Hurricane Isaac Water Damage Photos Sought
Louisiana Sea Grant and LSU AgCenter personnel need the public’s help in assessing flooding that occurred during Hurricane Isaac. People with photos of Isaac flooding are asked to email the images to Maurice Wolcott at mwolcott@agctr.lsu.edu with the street address of where the photo was taken. For more information, visit http://www.laseagrant.org/comm/2012/photosneeded.htm.
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.
New Laborde Chair Announced
Standish Allen Jr. has been named the Laborde Endowed Chair for Sea Grant Research and Technology Transfer by the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program (LSG). His appointment runs through June 2013. During his tenure as Laborde Chair, Allen will spend much of his time at the Louisiana Sea Grant hatchery assessing the facility’s oyster broodstock…
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