Swann appointed to Ocean Research Advisory Panel

Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium Director LaDon Swann has been selected to serve on the Ocean Research Advisory Panel (OARP). The panel advises the National Ocean Research Leadership Council and provides independent recommendations about...

Graham to share oil spill research

Larissa Graham has joined the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium and Auburn University’s Marine Extension and Research Center as a Gulf of Mexico oil spill extension specialist.

Each Gulf of Mexico Sea Grant program has hired an oil spill...

Contractors, waterfront homeowners invited to workshop about bulkhead alternatives

An upcoming workshop in Moss Point, Miss., will aim to educate contractors and waterfront homeowners about why they should install living shorelines, which are alternatives to bulkheads, in Mississippi and Alabama. A living shoreline uses living...

Workshop to train volunteers to report invasives

An invasive species workshop will be conducted on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, at the Mississippi State University Coastal Research and Extension Center, 1815 Popps Ferry Road, Biloxi, Miss, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. During the workshop, participants will...

Study assesses values of headwater wetlands

A healthy headwater wetland acts like a sponge, taking in water from surrounding land and holding it while it filters out nutrients and other impurities before eventually releasing cleaner water downstream. 

In a Mississippi-Alabama Sea...

What’s in the stormwater, and where is it going?

In order to help city managers and planners understand how various types of development impact coastal pollution, University of Southern Mississippi’s (USM) Kevin Dillon is collecting runoff directly from stormwater ditches and pipes from various...