Articles

• Is there a better way?
• 5 Questions about oil spills
• Hundreds attend forum about Gulf of Mexico oil spill
• Exxon Valdez oil spill: Alaskans share lessons learned
• Keeping shellfish safe
• Professionals join together to look at sea-level-rise issues
• Natural products can protect against erosion
• Nature guides become tourists for a day
• Guest Editorial: team collaborates on nutrients and hypoxia

Sea Briefs is a report on the results of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.

Editor: Melissa Schneider

This newsletter is available in PDF format from:
masgc.org/seabriefs

MASGC supports applied, interdisciplinary marine science research, education and outreach efforts to foster the sustainable development and management of the Mississippi and Alabama coasts and nearshore ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico

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Phone: 228-818-8838
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Natural products can protect against erosion

Scott Douglass, a professor of civil engineering at University of South Alabama, explains a living shoreline project at the University of South Alabama Gulf Pines Golf Course at Brookley Field. A two-day workshop this spring taught 63 people about alternatives to bulkheads to protect shorelines from erosion. the Weeks Bay and Grand Bay National estuarine Research Reserves Coastal training Programs hosted the event, and the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium was one of the many partners that helped plan and promote it.