Articles
- Adapting to shifting sands
- 5 Questions on Engagement
- MASGC shares in Gulf Guardian Award
- Program to certify nature-tour operators
- Bruening recognized for outstanding service
- Symposium to feature adaptive management
- Waterfront-access committee nears end of mission
- Volunteers grow 45,000 oysters for restoration
- Potential end-users test tool for sea-level rise planning
- Fink joins Office of Coast Survey in Mobile
- Featured Publication
- From the Director
Sea Briefs is a report on the results of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.
Editor: Melissa Schneider
Frontpage graphics: Matthew Capps
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 09-011-04
MASGC shares in Gulf Guardian Award
MASGC shared in the second-place Gulf Guardian Award in the partnership category for its involvement in the Gulf of Mexico Marine Debris Project. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Gulf of Mexico Program selects award recipients. The awards recognize innovative solutions that come about when people pool resources and look for creative ways to have a positive impact on quality of life and economic well-being in the Gulf.
The marine debris project mapped and removed debris after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. MASGC and the Louisiana Sea Grant implemented outreach efforts related to a Web site that showed the location of underwater debris.
The NOAA Office of Coast Survey and Office of Response and Restoration, U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources and Louisiana Department of Natural Resources were partners in the project.