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Communicating conservation: How coastal life changed my perspective on science

May 13, 2025

Zoë Stalham, 2024-2025 International Fellow

My name is Zoë Stalham. I am an undergraduate student studying marine biology at Queen’s University Belfast. Over the past year, I’ve had the incredible opportunity to work as a International Fellow in coastal Georgia with Marine Extension and Georgia… Full story

Protecting dunes, protecting communities: My experience as a Georgia Sea Grant research trainee

May 7, 2025

Skyler Fox, 2024-2025 Research Trainee

As a master’s student in Biology at Georgia Southern University, I’ve spent the past year and a half studying the resiliency of restored and natural dunes on Tybee Island. While my background is in plant conservation genetics—first as an undergraduate… Full story

Impacting the next generation of ocean advocates

May 1, 2025

Kira Davis, 2024-2025 Marine Education Fellow

I’m currently working as a year-long marine education fellow with Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant. I am a recent graduate from UGA with an emphasis in marine biology. As a dedicated Georgia bulldog, it has been such a joy… Full story

Exploring salt impacts on freshwater ecology on a Georgia barrier island

April 7, 2025

Zach Gordon, 2024-2025 Research Trainee

I am a master’s student at Georgia Southern University, and I’m part of the Freshwater Ecology Laboratory. My thesis project, which is funded through a Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant Research Traineeship, explores how saltwater is moving into historically… Full story

Digital Coast Fellow tackles marsh migration management to boost coastal resilience

April 4, 2025

NOAA Office of Coastal Management

Will Collins, nominated by Georgia Sea Grant, is a Digital Coast Fellow who was matched with The Nature Conservancy’s Gulf Program to develop a project to protect and manage coastal wetlands, with a focus on facilitating inland marsh migration to enhance coastal… Full story

Tracking Rattlesnakes on Jekyll Island

March 31, 2025

Justin Sanclemente, 2024-2025 State Fellow

My name is Justin Sanclemente, and I am the Jekyll Island Authority State Fellow for Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant. My love for ecology and wildlife conservation, especially that of herpetofauna (reptiles and amphibians) led me to start my… Full story

Coast to coast, and back again

March 24, 2025

Mallory Mintz, 2023‐2024 Research Trainee

When the pandemic hit, I was living and working in New York City, but after a year of quarantines and new variants, I decided to leave the close quarters of the city behind. Armed with the latest vaccine, I traded… Full story

From Ireland to the Georgia coast: My journey as an international fellow

March 19, 2025

Kate Milne, 2024-2025 International Fellow

My name is Kate Milne, and I am currently working for a year as an international fellow with Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant. I am a student at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and have had the incredible… Full story

Oysters for resilient coastlines and communities

September 18, 2024

Daniel Harris, 2023‐2024 Georgia Sea Grant State Fellow

Outside the Eulonia Piggly Wiggly, a man approached me. Spying the University of Georgia (UGA) truck I had just parked, he asked what I did at UGA. I told him that I restored oyster reefs, which started a long conversation… Full story

From childhood dreams to scientific reality: Exploring the gap between science and society

September 16, 2024

Alejandra Daniel, 2023-2024 Research Trainee

My journey to becoming a marine biologist began as a child. I was fascinated by the ocean and dreamed of becoming a marine biologist so that I could learn and understand as much as possible about the underwater world. However,… Full story

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