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50 Years of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium

Looking back at the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium 50th Anniversary year, it has been a lot of fun learning more about MASGC’s first 50 years while planning how to position the consortium for the next 50 years.

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By: LaDon Swann / Published: Dec 15, 2022

New oyster farming resilience index now available

Commercial oyster farming has many challenges even during the best of times. In order to increase the opportunity for success and recovery during extraordinary events, the Oyster Farming Resilience Index was developed recently by a team at the...

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By: Rusty Grice / Published: Dec 08, 2022

An example of co-production in action

For 50 years, the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium (MASGC) has been solving coastal problems with science. This has not been done in a vacuum, but rather through direct engagement and interaction with coastal communities, businesses,...

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By: Steve Sempier / Published: Dec 01, 2022

From science to the policy world: My Knauss fellowship journey

While moving to the United States when the world was at standstill due to the pandemic, my main goal was to get a graduate degree; little did I know that, in a little over a year, I would be working on policies that preserve U.S. coastal ecosystems...

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By: Sakinat Mojisola Ahmad / Published: Nov 22, 2022

Alabama and Mississippi commercial fisheries throughout 50 years

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, I summarized the socioeconomic characteristics of the Mississippi and Alabama (MS-AL) commercial fishing industry during the past 50 years. This blog post is a short...

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By: Ben Posadas / Published: Nov 17, 2022