We have a new boat!
Our new research vessel (boat) arrived yesterday. Pretty cool! The 28-foot fiberglass boat was specially designed for rapid surveys of shallow water environments. It is powered with twin Yamaha 250… Read more »
Building a living lab on a barrier island
We are involved with several other organizations in a cool project to establish a network of environmental sensors on Ossabaw Island, south of Savannah. Ossabaw Island is owned by the… Read more »
Windom: Get used to a warmer planet
The following op-ed piece by Herb Windom, professor emeritus at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, was published in the Savannah Morning News on January 16, 2008. A marine geochemistry expert says… Read more »
New building underway!
We broke ground on our long-awaited new laboratory building this morning. This is actually pretty exciting. The $5 million, 11,000 square foot facility will provide us some much-needed space to… Read more »
Cruise Blog From Eastern Pacific
Mike Sullivan writes: One of our scientists is off on a cruise in the Eastern Pacific. He sent us this link to a blog-site on the cruise. Interesting.
Great open house
Mike Sullivan writes: We had a great turn-out for our campus-wide open house event, Skidaway Marine Science Day. We estimate we had 3,000 visitors. Incredible! That’s nearly twice the estimate… Read more »
Blogging from Brookhaven
Jay Brandes writes: Dear Readers: I am spending this week conducting research at the National Synchrotron Light Source up in Brookhaven, New York. Now you might ask, “Why do you… Read more »
Come see us!
Mike Sullivan writes: We are about two and a half weeks away from our big, annual open house event, Skidaway Marine Science Day. Thie year it is from noon to… Read more »
What's an IRMS, and why do I care?
Mike Sullivan writes: I have spent some time over the past two weeks trying to get my arms around some new equipment we are installing. An Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer… Read more »
Sushi tasting a hit!
We had our informal sushi/sashimi tasting last Thursday evening, and it was a lot of fun. Some quick background — Professor Dick Lee wanted to see if there is any… Read more »