A release of radioactive cooling water from the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C. provided the spark for a current research project at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. The object of… Read more »
The Winter 2010 issue of our campus newsletter, Skidaway Campus Notes, is available on-line here.
The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography is expanding its coastal radar system with the addition of a new send-receive station on Jekyll Island. The radar system, called WERA, is used to… Read more »
We produce a monthly (mostly) newsletter that is intended for our campus community. From time to time it has some interesting tid-bits. You can check it out here.
Our campus “mock docks” grew a little taller today. The purpose behind this project is to measure the effects different dock designs have on the underlying salt marsh. Earlier research… Read more »
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography researcher Karrie Brinkley has spent a lot of time in recent months traveling up and down Georgia’s coastal waterways in boats and canoes with maps and… Read more »
Climate change will have profound effects on the Arctic ecosystem, and those effects may be felt around the world. Skidaway Institute of Oceanography professor Marc Frischer is launching a three-year… Read more »
Mike Sullivan writes: Several of us spent most of last Friday taking a boat trip to one of Georgia’s undeveloped coastal islands and stomping around looking for archaeological sites that… Read more »
This news reached us this morning from the Center for a Sustainable Coast. Congratulations to Dr. Verity! The staff and board of directors of the Center for a Sustainable Coast… Read more »
Often students grow vegetable gardens for a science project, but some local students took on an entirely different task. They grew bacteria cultures. It was one of several educational activities… Read more »