First-year master’s student Ashley Ohall took home a first place prize at this past spring’s 2024 Microplastics in the Coastal Region conference for her research advancing capabilities to identify microplastics… Read more »
Dr. Natalie Cohen, University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) scientist and assistant professor of marine sciences in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a… Read more »
Originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, just east of Lake Michigan, Claire Zwiers-Cook is a PhD student studying in Natalie Cohen’s lab at the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography… Read more »
This past spring, University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) scientist Sara Rivero-Calle traveled nearly 5,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to Venice, Italy, where she participated in an… Read more »
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The venue for this program has been changed to the newly renovated McGowan Library Auditorium! The problem of plastic pollution in our environment has caught the public’s attention… Read more »
During the five years it has been in orbit, the SeaHawk-1 CubeSat nanosatellite has captured thousands of images of the Earth as scientists used it to study the ocean. Now… Read more »
Disease, pandemics and mass mortality events don’t affect only humans. Diseases caused by infectious agents, such as viruses, bacteria and fungi, are an important and necessary component of all healthy… Read more »
Spanish moss and resurrection ferns are common sights in the trees throughout southeast Georgia, but few people understand the important role they play in the water cycle. UGA Skidaway Institute… Read more »
Rapidly increasing production of plastics for bottles, containers, clothing and other materials has led to an equally rapid input of such plastics into our air, land, rivers and oceans. The… Read more »