It’s finally summertime! We all know what that means! Beautiful weather perfect for baseball games, days out on the boat and, of course, mosquitoes! We are all familiar with these little bloodsuckers.
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The red snapper recreational fishing season is finally here, and like many of you, I spent opening weekend on the water wetting a line. You probably caught more red snapper than you were allowed to keep (2 per person per day), and therefore had to...
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As an educator, I have taught students in a wide range of locations: on the beach, in a tidepool, thigh-deep in the Everglades, in front of an aquarium and even in a classroom. Being able to talk about science and conservation in a range of...
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A new study has found that songbirds are a remarkably common part of young tiger sharks’ diets.
The study is described in the article “Tiger sharks eat songbirds: scavenging a windfall of nutrients from the sky,” which was published today in the...
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The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium and the National Centers for Environmental Information are hosting a half-day workshop about harmful algal blooms (HABs) from 1-4:30 p.m., Thursday, June 13, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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The Matrix. You're probably thinking of Keanu Reeves and the movie trilogy that began in 1999. I'm thinking of Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium (MASGC), which began in 1972. MASGC is a matrix-based organization, which means there are...
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