Outreach

Outreach

The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Outreach Program helps coastal communities in the region address concerns and problems surrounding the development, use and conservation of ocean and coastal resources. The Outreach Program involves the collective efforts of professional extension, outreach and communications staff located in several offices:

For more than 40 years, the outreach team has been actively involved with local governments, agencies and organizations and have assisted residents and decision-makers with choices about the use and management of ocean and coastal resources. Team members can be found at fishing docks, restoration sites, outdoor exhibits, city halls, schools and offices. Based on formal and informal needs assessments, strategic planning and stakeholder input, the team uses applied interdisciplinary research, communications, extension and legal services to conduct targeted activities and research to address top concerns and problems regarding coastal resources.

Programs

  • Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program

    The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program has conducted legal research, education, and outreach since 1972 and is now operated in conjunction with the National Sea Grant Law Center, created in February of 2002.

    As the legal research arm of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, the...

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  • COVID-19 Resources

    Resources for the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • VORTEX-SE Engagement

    The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) brings together both physical and social scientists, researchers and meteorologists to look at specific conditions that produce tornadoes in the Southeast United States, and how they impact society.

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  • Climate and Resilience Community of Practice

    Climate and resilience logoMaybe you are a local elected official, city planner, community leader, a local decision-maker or someone working with local decision-makers. You’ve come here because you are interested in learning more about how your community can become more resilient in the wake of severe storm events such as...

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  • Living Shorelines

    The current trend in Mississippi and Alabama is to install hard structures, such as bulkheads, seawalls or rip-rap on the shoreline to protect waterfront coastal property from erosion. Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant supports the use of living shorelines, in many circumstances, instead of bulkheads...

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  • Peer Listening

    Peer listening is a type of support that occurs when people provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social or practical help to each other. Properly trained peer listeners can provide a number of services to the community, such as serving as an available ear to assist in problem solving or...

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  • Oyster Farming

    Resources for oyster farmers or those seeking information about oyster aquaculture.

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  • Mobile Bay Oyster Gardening

    A volunteer based project which focuses on education, restoration/enhancement, and research by bringing the reef to the people. Now in its eleventh year of operation, Oyster Gardeners have produced nearly 500,000 oysters for restoration and enhancement efforts within Mobile Bay.

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  • Working Waterfronts

    Issues related to access to the working waterfront have come to the national forefront. Increased development and expanding coastal populations are threatening water access for working waterfront businesses and the general public.  In its 2007 report Access to the Waterfront: Issues and Solutions...

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  • Clean Marina Program

    The Clean Marina Initiative is a voluntary, incentive-based program promoted by NOAA and others that encourages marina operators and recreational boaters to protect coastal water quality by engaging in environmentally sound operating and maintenance procedures. While Clean Marina Programs vary...

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  • Coastal Storms Program

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s Coastal Storms Program (CSP) is a nationwide effort to help coastal residents reduce the impacts storms have on their families, communities, property and environment.

    The program will provide tools and services, such as observations, forecast...

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  • Nature Tourism

    The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Nature Tourism Program focuses on Clean and Resilient Marina designations and blueway development.

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  • Greater Amberjack

    This research program will develop additional data sources, assessment approaches and knowledge to improve agency and agency-independent estimates of the abundance of Greater Amberjack.

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