Focus Areas

Environmental Literacy & Workforce Development

Environmental literacy and workforce skills in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and other disciplines related to coastal resources are important to the populations that Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant serves. These skills advance cutting-edge research, promote sound resource management and maintain a globally competitive workforce.

Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium's (MASGC’s) university-based research projects support undergraduate and graduate students in fields related to coastal resources. Reaching outside of universities, the MASGC outreach team offers tailor-made professional development workshops that bring up-to-date information to people who express a need for it.  

Floodplain managers, city leaders, lawyers, nature tour guides and commercial and recreational fishermen, just to name a few, have taken part in MASGC training workshops.

Through camps, professional development trainings, volunteer programs, fellowships and continuing education opportunities, MASGC teaches about science. MASGC’s informal education opportunities also deliver current science information to audiences of all ages.

K-12 educators receive the best available research on environmental education through MASGC programs. This information sharpens teaching skills and ensures that educators are bringing the latest scientific information into their classrooms. Through field-based and other environmental education programs, MASGC engages students, improves their performance, promotes action and instills stewardship. 

MASGC continues to engage and support environmental education leaders as Alabama and Mississippi adopt common core standards, develop literacy principles in many Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields and integrate STEM education, the impending adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards, and the environmental education certification movement. 

Programs

  • Climate and Resilience Community of Practice

    Climate and resilience logoMaybe you are a local elected official, city planner, community leader, a local decision-maker or someone working with local decision-makers. You’ve come here because you are interested in learning more about how your community can become more resilient in the wake of severe storm events such as...

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  • Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program

    The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program has conducted legal research, education, and outreach since 1972 and is now operated in conjunction with the National Sea Grant Law Center, created in February of 2002.

    As the legal research arm of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, the...

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  • Oyster Farming

    Resources for oyster farmers or those seeking information about oyster aquaculture.

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  • VORTEX-SE Engagement

    The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) brings together both physical and social scientists, researchers and meteorologists to look at specific conditions that produce tornadoes in the Southeast United States, and how they impact society.

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