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

Editor: Valerie Winn

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Crozier Retires from DISL, Joins
Bellwether Group

Dr. George F. Crozier, former director of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) who retired from that position in 2007, has joined The Bellwether Group, a strategic public and environmental affairs firm, as senior consultant. As a consultant, Crozier will assist Bellwether professionals and their clients with technical environmental expertise, land use planning consulting (including Smart Growth strategies), environmental communications consulting and government and non-profit sector consulting.

Trained originally as a comparative biochemist, Crozier spent most of his professional career in coastal zone management. As the director of the Coastal Policy Center at DISL, he was active regionally in most management issues. Crozier, who received his Ph. D. in marine biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego), was recognized by NOAA with the Walter B. Jones Coastal Steward Award for 1999-2000 and has been honored by the State of Alabama as a science educator. He is deeply engaged in the issues emerging from urban sprawl in coastal areas as well as wetlands mitigation.

“I hope to maintain a serious involvement in sustainable management of the coastal zone,” he said. “I have worked with the principals at Bellwether Group and they share my feeling that sustainability has moved beyond desirable—it is a necessity.”

Crozier is also writing a column for the alternative newspaper/magazine “Lagniappe,” based in Mobile, Ala. “The main reason being that I hope that having a deadline will force me to write some of the ideas that could become a book full of my opinions and anecdotes of coastal resource wrangling over three decades of change in the central Gulf, he said.”