Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium MASGC
The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium has a long history of supporting graduate and undergraduate students in fields related to coastal and marine science. Our recent Staff focused on the K-12 and teacher education programs we support, but...
Read MoreWe held our first “Sea-Level Rise in the Classroom” workshop for educators this past weekend, March 19, at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. Educators explored the curriculum lessons and even met an Ambassador Animal from the zoo: Sage (an...
Read MoreMost afternoons when I get home from work, my husband will ask me, “What did you do today?” My standard answer is, “I got to play in the woods.” I did not grow up playing sports like many children. I have never been what anyone would call...
Read MoreGulf sturgeon recently made the news when University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Researcher Mike Andres, Ph.D., and his team detected a 5-foot-long, 17-year-old fish near Jackson, Mississippi, using acoustic telemetry. Sturgeon are anadromous,...
Read MoreWe had just finished a hands-on activity looking at the effects of melting land ice (ice located on land) and sea ice (ice floating in the water) on sea level rise, and this young man looked dumbstruck. Prior to the start of the experiment, we have...
Read MoreMany of us have heard the term “resilience” used in multiple contexts over the years. After big storms and hurricanes, we hear about making our coasts resilient to damage. After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we heard about helping our...
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