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Living shorelines team workshops lead to shoreline assessments

Living shorelines are an important tool in the shoreline protection and conservation toolbox for coastal communities. However, many people are unaware of their many benefits and that they can be used on small-scale private properties in lieu of...

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By: Sara Martin / Published: Oct 06, 2022

Restoration monitoring provides learning opportunity

Situated less than half a mile from Biloxi in the Mississippi Sound, Deer Island provides an excellent setting for place-based education connecting student learning to local community issues. Deer Island is subject to many of the same processes...

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By: Jessie Kastler / Published: Sep 08, 2022

A tool with many uses, ROVs engage girls in engineering

With its funding for environmental literacy efforts, the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium supports several place-based education programs at Dauphin Island Sea Lab -Discovery Hall Programs, the Environmental Studies Center (Mobile County...

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By: Tina Miller-Way / Published: Sep 02, 2022

Bays and Bayous Call for Abstracts now open

The Call for Abstracts for the Bays and Bayous Symposium is now available. The symposium will be held at the Mobile Convention Center in Mobile, Alabama, on Jan. 24-25, 2023.

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By: Melissa Schneider / Published: Aug 30, 2022

Sea Grant, partners conduct living shoreline research

Shoreline erosion is a constant challenge that plagues many waterfront owners and natural areas. Although shoreline erosion is a natural process, it can be worsened by human activities, such as boats, dredging or dams, which change freshwater and...

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By: Leo Smith and Eric Sparks / Published: Aug 29, 2022