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Contact: Tori Stivers, 770-460-2506, tstivers@uga.edu. Georgia’s coast is home to some of the most succulent shrimp and tender blue crab available, but the state’s inland consumers have often purchased their seafood elsewhere. Georgia Sea Grant is looking to change that… Full story

The Savannah community experienced ‘A Fishy Affair: Malicious…but Delicious’ on September 24 to benefit Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. The sold out event educated and entertained the audience with a dinner that consisted of 415 pounds of lionfish cooked… Full story

Contact: Mark Risse, 706-202-9576, mrisse@uga.edu As states along the East Coast anticipate heavy rainfall over the next few days, scientists from Florida to Maryland, including the University of Georgia, are partnering to gather data about the extent of flooding and… Full story

The Southern Scene, a news show on Savannah’s WSAV station, ran a story in September featuring Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary, one of 14 protected marine sanctuaries in the country. This is the only reef of its kind off the… Full story

The regular registration deadline is now approaching for the 4th National Working Waterfronts and Waterways Symposium to be held November 16-19, 2015 in Tampa. Regular registration lasts until October 19, 2015 and costs $425. The ultimate goal of the symposium… Full story

UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant have been helping coastal communities increase public safety and save money on flood insurance through training and outreach related the FEMA’s Community Rating System (CRS). CRS is the first federal program designed to… Full story

UGA Marine Extension is piloting a new program for visiting school groups in the fall of 2015. The project, funded by the Landings Landlovers Inc., will provide hands-on educational experiences for approximately 190 students and the general public in a… Full story

In the early fall of 2015, UGA’s College of Public Health, UGA Marine Extension Service and Georgia Sea Grant began field sampling for a collaborative research project to evaluate impacts from personal care products on microbial ecology in coastal waters…. Full story

UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant helped organize and co-host a four-day meeting for members of the Georgia House of Representatives’ Natural Resources and Environment Committee throughout coastal Georgia. Led by the UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government and… Full story

Curators at the UGA Aquarium, Devin Dumont and Lisa Olenderski, are currently collaborating with Savannah State University and the Odum School of Ecology on undergraduate and graduate student research. Dumont and Olenderski are working with Amanda Mahoney, professor at Savannah… Full story