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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
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
Phone: 228-818-8838
E-mail: seabriefs@masgc.org
MASGP 08-011-04

Announcements

Project to study dolphin behavior
NOAA Fisheries Service, in partnership with MASGC, has awarded an $80,000 grant for scientists to study bottlenose dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Ph.D. Candidate Steve Shippee of the University of Central Florida Biology Department in Orlando, Fla., will lead the project with assistance from Randall Wells of the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program of the Chicago Zoological Society. Scientists will examine the extent of dolphins stealing bait or catch from anglers, investigate mitigation approaches, assess human impacts on dolphins and develop and disseminate educational information about harmful human-dolphin interactions.

Regional Resilience Research Request for Proposals
The four Gulf of Mexico Sea Grant College Programs (Mississippi- Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Texas), the EPA’s Gulf of Mexico Program, the Northern Gulf Institute and the U.S. eological Survey are combining resources to fund large regional research projects to address natural hazard and climate change resilience issues in the Gulf of Mexico. The goal of the initiative is to develop information, tools, technologies, products, policies or public decision processes that coastal communities can use to increase their resilience to coastal hazards and sea level change. Projects will be multidisciplinary and include researchers and end-users from two or more Gulf of Mexico states, including those in Mexico. The request for preproposals is posted at flseagrant.org/funding/GOM. The deadline is Feb. 23, 2009.

MASGC Omnibus Request for Proposals
MASGC has announced a request for proposals for its biennial omnibus competition for 2010-2011. Pre-proposals will be due Feb. 23, 2009. Priorities will include subject areas such as Healthy Coastal Ecosystems, Sustainable Coastal Development and Safe and Sustainable Seafood Supply. Go to masgc.org for details.