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UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant offered tours of the R/V Georgia Bulldog on Saturday, April 18, during Darien’s Blessing of the Fleet festival. The Darien Blessing of the Fleet, held April 17-19, is an annual festival hosted by… Full story

Water Quality Program Coordinator Katy Smith and Georgia Sea Grant interns, Cara Lin and Beth Smith, joined staff from Jekyll Island Georgia Sea Turtle Center and 17 volunteers to help cleanup and restore a riverside section of marsh on Jekyll… Full story

Contact: Anne Lindsay, 912-598-2355, lindsaya@uga.edu Thanks to a private gift, visitors to the University of Georgia Marine Extension Service will soon have an outdoor pavilion where they can gather when visiting the Marine Education Center and Aquarium on Skidaway Island…. Full story

The fifth-graders at St. Martin’s Episcopal School are proof that you don’t have to be grown up to make a huge impact. Since 2011, students at the Atlanta school have donated $4,473.75 to UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium. A… Full story

Mona Behl recently joined our team as the new Associate Director at Georgia Sea Grant. In this position, she is charged with managing various aspects of grant administration, strategic planning, and development and oversight of inter-, cross-, and trans-disciplinary efforts… Full story

Representatives from the South Atlantic Sea Grant region, which includes North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, met at the Penn Center Historic District on St. Helena Island, S.C., to discuss “Empowering Connections and Creativity in Southeast Sea Grant Programs.”… Full story

Contact: Shana Jones, 706-542-3641, shanaj@uga.edu Georgia Sea Grant has partnered with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia to create the new Georgia Sea Grant Legal Program where students at the UGA School of Law will… Full story

Katy Smith had an opportunity to inspire 28 sixth-grade students at Frederica Academy during their “Coastal Ecology – Carpe Vitam” weeklong school event. Scientists and activists were invited to present a variety of environmental topics to the students. Smith discussed… Full story

EcoScapes program manager, Keren Giovengo, presented a talk titled “A Natural Approach to Pest and Disease Control for Pollinators” at the March meeting of the Golden Isles Rose Society on St. Simons Island. The presentation focused on the role of… Full story

UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant offered free safety courses for commercial fishermen in partnership with the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association. Nine people attended Drill Conductor Safety Training, which covered emergency drills and rescue skills; 11 attended Upright… Full story