Communications

As stated in the consortium's Strategic Plan, the communications program's long-term goal is to build an award-winning program. To achieve this, the communications program will pursue two objectives: to re-establish the program's presence among Mississippi and Alabama stakeholders including Sea Grant's institutional and extension partners, funded researchers, the media, community organizations and the general public and to expand MASGC's communications efforts using new communications technology, innovative communications products and new partnerships that leverage MASGC's communications funds.

Principal Investigator Assistance
We have a Web page dedicated to providing principal investigators with all the materials they need to meet publications requirements.

Present Communications Efforts
Press Releases
MASGC publishes press releases to disseminate important news regarding the research, extension, or educational projects that it funds. Press releases are posted on MASGC's home page and on the press releases Web page.

Publications
MASGC-funded projects, as well as independent administrative initiatives, create publications that are considered Sea Grant publications. MASGC maintains an inventory of all MASGC publications available to the public. These publications and all other Sea Grant programs' publications are listed on the National Sea Grant Library Web site at http://nsgd.gso.uri.edu/. MASGC fills all specific requests for our publications through its main administrative offices in Ocean Springs, Miss.

Sea Briefs
This is MASGC's official newsletter and is published quarterly. It contains recent news and reports from MASGC-funded researchers, extension staff and legal program attorneys. It is available as PDF files and online versions.

National Sea Grant communication efforts
In addition to the local, regional and national communication efforts produced by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, the National Sea Grant Office works to generate information and disseminate it on a national and international scale. These components of the national office keep track of the research, education and outreach efforts (and their results) produced by all 32 Sea Grant programs.

Below are the links to these special Sea Grant communications components:

The Sea Grant Media Center provides members of the news media, researchers and educators access to marine research and resources available through the National Sea Grant College Program.

The National Sea Grant Library at the University of Rhode Island's Pell Library has compiled nearly 55,000 scientific, technical, advisory, educational and public information reports from Sea Grant-supported work.