Student Blog

Calling all Healthy Coastal Ecosystems practitioners—and friends! With regard to the Healthy Coastal Ecosystems (HCE) National Focus Area (FA), the National Sea Grant College Program strategic planning process for 2024-2027 raised more questions than could be fully explored. In preparation… Full story

The Guam Green Growth (G3) Initiative at the University of Guam (UOG), backed by a $1.4M grant from the United States Department of State through NOAA’s National Sea Grant College Program, is broadening its impact across the Western Pacific. Partnering… Full story

This session will explain the core components of the Community Engaged Internship (CEI) program so far, including its mission, goals, structure, and evaluation. From 2020-2023, 259 students participated in the CEI program, with another 80 students anticipated to participate in… Full story

This session will bring recipients of the CEC funds together to share stories and discuss SG role in CEC/PFAS. FY21 CEC funds were used to a scope an overarching framework and implementation strategies to address CEC in SG. FY22, 23,… Full story

Part 2: Many Sea Grant programs offer field experiences or site visits associated with their education, extension, or research programs. These field experiences serve school children, teachers, municipal officials, conservation leaders, resource managers, entrepreneurs, interested publics, community-citizen scientists, other scientists,… Full story

(cont.) Sea Grant staff throughout the country have been experiencing an increasing number of weather-driven emergencies in the last decade or more. Challenges facing the people that Sea Grant serves have included unusually powerful storms, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and more…. Full story

(cont.) Sea Grant professionals gather science and perspectives to assist communities in addressing often complicated challenges. Our success is connected to a commitment to bringing an informed, collaborative, and inclusive mindset to our work. The Sea Grant values related to… Full story

(cont.) Sea Grant Programs play an important role in directly supporting ocean and coastal researchers through competitive research grant programs. However, past sessions hosted at Sea Grant Week by the DEIJA and TLK Communities of Practices yielded broad recognition that… Full story