News - Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

Program trains future oyster aquaculture workforce

The Commercial Oyster Aquaculture Sector Training (COAST) Program in Mississippi and Alabama is a workforce development initiative to recruit workers to the oyster aquaculture industry and provide them with training to meet industry demand. First, a...

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By: Rusty Grice / Published: Dec 15, 2023

The Sea Grant Extension Assembly is a network of networks

You hopefully have read many of the MASGC extension- and education-focused blog posts that have been shared in previous weeks and have been impressed by the range and depth of these programs. This post is focused on how our Sea Grant program...

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By: Steve Sempier / Published: Nov 16, 2023

Teachers engage with coastal ecology at workshop

How effective are high school educators in putting together a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) in 20 minutes? This was just one of the activities and challenges that high school science educators engaged in during a collaborative workshop between...

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By: Tracy Jay / Published: Nov 09, 2023