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To make the biggest impact, plastic use should be decreased
By the year 2050, an estimated 12,000 metric tons of plastic waste will reside in landfills and the natural environment. This estimation is made...
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Popular Master Naturalist courses build volunteer base for the environment
As you are all aware, spring is in full effect and its starting to feel like early summer. Wildflowers are blooming and we can thank a couple pine...
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Sea Grant supports development of oyster-farming industry
In fine restaurants across the region now, an oyster lover can often find beautiful, plump oysters grown by hard-working men and women along the...
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Serving the seafood industry
The 2018 (most recent) economic impact in sales of the Alabama and Mississippi seafood industries was $895.5 million, and the industries created or...
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Research support for the oyster industry: Past, present and future
The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium (MASGC) was created in 1972 as a federal and state partnership. Its mission is to provide integrated...
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Oyster gardening programs produce nearly 1.2M oysters since inception
Oyster gardening is a term that means different things depending on where you are located. In Mississippi and Alabama, it is a volunteer effort...
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Our Sea Grant program has supported 1,000+ students
The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium has a long history of supporting graduate and undergraduate students in fields related to coastal and...
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Our education programs take kids outside
Most 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...
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Sturgeon-based lessons connect inland areas to Mississippi Sound
Gulf sturgeon recently made the news when University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Researcher Mike Andres, Ph.D., and his team detected a...
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