News - Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

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

Making sea-level rise making science make sense

In February of 2022, the latest technical report on sea-level rise (SLR) for the U.S. was released. This document synthesized the latest available science on how much seas are expected to rise across the U.S. and locally.

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By: Renee Collini / Published: Aug 19, 2022