Dust blown from the Earth’s continents falls into the oceans and fertilizes them with nutrients needed for plants, such as phytoplankton, to grow. This dust, rich with iron and other… Read more »
Grace Mann, a native of the Turks and Caicos Islands, is a master’s student working as a research assistant with SkIO faculty member Adam Greer in the Zero-C Lab at… Read more »
The Semester at Skidaway domestic field study program brings undergraduate ocean science majors to the Georgia coast, where they take courses and build their research skills through a series of… Read more »
The November cruise is officially complete for DolLAYER. We were able to go back to the sites where we saw the large bloom of diatoms earlier in the trip. We… Read more »
We are underway for the 7th DolLAYER cruise and the 2nd major field sampling campaign of the project (NSF Grant #2244690). On November 7, 2024, we departed Skidaway Institute of… Read more »
The University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography has received and installed a new, advanced flow cytometer with imaging capabilities in the lab of faculty member Natalie Cohen. The machine… Read more »
The UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography’s (SkIO) Skidaway Island Stable Isotope Laboratory has received and installed a new, advanced isotope ratio mass spectrometry system, enabling scientists to analyze stable isotopic… Read more »
Zooplankton are among the most abundant animals in our oceans, serving as the foundation of marine food webs and playing vital roles in ocean ecosystems. These tiny creatures are essential… Read more »
University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) physical oceanographer Nick Foukal, along with two collaborators from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), have received $919,000 in funding from the… Read more »
The Greer, Frischer, Brandes, and Treible (Savannah State) research groups just completed a cruise in the South Atlantic Bight (SAB) onboard the RV Savannah. This was the first science cruise… Read more »