Student Blog

I am a master’s student at Georgia Southern University, and I’m part of the Freshwater Ecology Laboratory. My thesis project, which is funded through a Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant Research Traineeship, explores how saltwater is moving into historically… Full story

Will Collins, nominated by Georgia Sea Grant, is a Digital Coast Fellow who was matched with The Nature Conservancy’s Gulf Program to develop a project to protect and manage coastal wetlands, with a focus on facilitating inland marsh migration to enhance coastal… Full story

My name is Justin Sanclemente, and I am the Jekyll Island Authority State Fellow for Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant. My love for ecology and wildlife conservation, especially that of herpetofauna (reptiles and amphibians) led me to start my… Full story

When the pandemic hit, I was living and working in New York City, but after a year of quarantines and new variants, I decided to leave the close quarters of the city behind. Armed with the latest vaccine, I traded… Full story

My name is Kate Milne, and I am currently working for a year as an international fellow with Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant. I am a student at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and have had the incredible… Full story

Outside the Eulonia Piggly Wiggly, a man approached me. Spying the University of Georgia (UGA) truck I had just parked, he asked what I did at UGA. I told him that I restored oyster reefs, which started a long conversation… Full story

My journey to becoming a marine biologist began as a child. I was fascinated by the ocean and dreamed of becoming a marine biologist so that I could learn and understand as much as possible about the underwater world. However,… Full story

Growing up in Northwest Georgia, I never consumed much seafood. I viewed it as a luxury meal, something sophisticated my parents would eat on vacation when we wanted to treat ourselves. My dad would order crabs and my mom would… Full story

I went to the coast to eat good seafood and, along the way, discovered that maybe I didn’t have to go to the coast to eat good seafood. Well, technically, I was there to write. I was enrolled in a domestic field… Full story

I’m  Anna Carnes. I graduated from Georgia Tech with a bachelor’s in biology and a certificate in ecology, evolution, and conservation biology earlier this month. I’ve been working in the Kostka Lab for almost three years now, and in 2023,… Full story