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

Editor: Laura Bowie

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
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Phone: 228-818-8838
E-mail: seabriefs@masgc.org
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Knauss fellow works with marine policy-makers in Washington

A recent University of Southern Mississippi graduate, Melissa Pratt-Zossoungbo, has been awarded a Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship in Washington, D.C.

MASGC endorsed her application for the fellowship, which is sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Sea Grant College Program. Pratt-Zossoungbo began her position in February and will work for one year as an ocean policy analyst for the NOAA National Ocean Service’s (NOS) Policy, Planning and Analysis Division in the Management and Budget Office.

NOS is involved in many issues, such as coastal zone management, science on hypoxia and climate change, coral reef conservation and promoting safe marine transportation.

Pratt-Zossoungbo earned her master’s degree in coastal sciences with a marine botany concentration in December 2008. As a graduate student, her research focused on how mycorrhizal fungi affected salt-marsh plant growth. She received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Gordon College in Wenham, Mass., in 2003 and graduated from Holliston High School in Holliston, Mass., in 1999.

The Knauss fellowship program is named in honor of John A. Knauss, a former NOAA administrator and a founder of the Sea Grant program. Sea Grant is national network of 32 programs that provide support, leadership and expertise for university-based marine research, extension and education.