Articles
- Building a Better World
- 10 Questions on Marine Education
- Lou D'Abramo Awarded Honors
- ELBs Track Gulf Shrimping Effort
- Dr. Sharon Walker Promotes Ocean Literacy
- Mississippi Team Wins Hurricane Bowl
- Research in the Gulf
- Featured Publication
- From the Director
Sea Briefs is a report on the results of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.
Editor: Valerie Winn
Top photo: Chris Snyder
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
Mississippi-Alabama
Sea Grant Consortium
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
Phone: 228-818-8840
E-mail: seabriefs@masgc.org
MASGP 07-011-02
Dr. Sharon Walker Promotes Ocean Literacy
Dr. Sharon Walker, MASGC Education Director, is working
half-time for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Office
of Education (OEd) and the National Sea Grant Program (NSGP). In this
role, Dr. Walker spends one week in Washington, D.C., and one week in
Mississippi assisting NOAA’s OEd and NSGP staff in moving ocean
literacy issues forward at the national level. In addition to implementing
recommendations from the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy’s An Ocean
Blueprint for the 21st Century (September 2004) and the Conference of
Ocean Literacy Report (December 2006), she is representing the Sea Grant
Education Network in revisions of its component of the Sea Grant National
Strategic Plan and providing national updates to the Sea Grant Education
Network. Dr. Walker also works on several national and regional committees
that coordinate the education and outreach activities of the Gulf of
Mexico Alliance and the Gulf Coast Ocean Observing System with Sea Grant’s
regional research program.