Public comments are sought for the Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant Review. The deadline is April 9, 2019.
Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant will be reviewed from April 16 to 18 by a team convened by the National Sea Grant College Program. The review will be conducted at Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant’s facilities on Skidaway Island, Georgia, and will consider all aspects of Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant’s programs during the 2014-2017 reporting years, including management and organization, performance, stakeholder engagement and collaborative activities including those with various offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
This notice invites public comments for the panel to review. Please email comments by April 9 to oar.sg-feedback@noaa.gov. Please put “Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant site review” in the subject line.
For more information about the review, contact Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant Director Mark Risse at mriss@uga.edu.
Thank you for assisting Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant by letting the review team hear from you.
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Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant is a federal/state partnership that includes funding from NOAA and the University of Georgia system. In addition to the headquarters at UGA, the program has offices in Peachtree City and Brunswick, and operates two facilities on Skidaway Island – the UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium and the Shellfish Research Lab.
Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant is committed to improving the environmental and economic health of coastal Georgia through research, education and outreach. The program’s mission is to improve public resource policy, encourage far-sighted economic and fisheries decisions, anticipate vulnerabilities to change and educate citizens to be wise stewards of the coastal environment. For more information about the program, go to gacoast.uga.edu.