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Dottie Leatherwood of Tybee Island and Michael Marshall of Athens, have been selected as the 2025 grant recipients for UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant’s Artists, Writers, and Scholars program. Over the next year, they will embark on creative… Full story

Three recipients of the Marine Education Fellowship have joined the education team at the UGA Aquarium on Skidaway Island, which is part of Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant.  The year-long fellowship provides early-career professionals with hands-on experience in environmental… Full story

Mona Behl, associate director of Georgia Sea Grant and senior public service associate at the University of Georgia, has been elected as a 2026 Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). Election as an AMS Fellow is a prestigious honor… Full story

Spend an afternoon exploring the coast, science and culture at Skidaway Marine Science Day, a free, family-friendly event for all ages on Saturday, Oct. 11, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the University of Georgia Skidaway Marine Science Campus,… Full story

This October, UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant will celebrate National Seafood Month by hosting a series of events along the Georgia coast that highlight the connections between healthy coastal ecosystems, sustainable fisheries, and the seafood we eat. “Seafood… Full story

In 2020, while pursuing her master’s degree at Georgia Southern University, Shannon Matzke was selected as a Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant Research Trainee, receiving support to study how planting density influences the success of native vegetation and sand… Full story

For more than four decades, the R/V Georgia Bulldog has been a symbol of service to the commercial fishing community along Georgia’s coast and the Southeast. Commissioned in 1980 as a repurposed shrimp trawler, the Bulldog transformed into one of… Full story

In April 2025, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) approved a new rule making it possible to harvest oysters commercially in warmer weather without compromising food safety. The rule change was informed, in part, by a collaborative study between… Full story

This summer, UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant is offering a wide range of hands-on programs designed to connect people of all ages with Georgia’s coastal and marine environments.  Most programs will take place at the UGA Aquarium on… Full story

Courtney McGill’s connection to Sapelo Island began when her mother, Michele Johnson, visited as a journalist to cover historian and author Cornelia Walker Bailey and the Gullah Geechee community in the early 2000s. Michele fell in love with the place… Full story