Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium MASGC
It’s time for the fishermen to fix up their boats and get ready for the 2015 shrimping season. The fishermen at the Biloxi dock have been working on their boats for the past month, and now they are getting ready to fill up their boat and heading...
With our annual meeting fast approaching, it seems appropriate to reflect on the Climate Outreach Community of Practice (CoP) as we mark our sixth year together. The Climate Community of Practice is a group of education, outreach and extension...
The U.S. industries targeted by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium research, education and outreach projects during the past decade were grouped under four focus areas.
Under “sustainable fisheries and aquaculture,” the following...
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What do Sea Grant students do?
Since the 1970s, MASGC has supported over 650 graduate students. We support graduate-level students in the sciences, education, law, architecture and planning schools and business. Our students have been successful in...
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Today, I watched a webinar demonstration of the Deepwater Horizon Project Tracking Tool. Basically, it's a website with an interactive map and other features. You can see on a map where oil-spill related research and restoration projects are taking...
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, polluted runoff is the number one water quality problem in the country.
This problem is exacerbated in urban areas due to the higher amount of impervious cover which leads to greater volumes of...
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