SkIO Student Spotlight: Ben Lowin
Ben Lowin, a San Francisco Bay Area native who grew up in Switzerland, is a doctoral student focusing on remote sensing in Sara Rivero-Calle’s lab at the University of Georgia… Read more »
oceanography
Johnson High School educators join cruise on the R/V Savannah
Educators from Johnson High School plan to use what they experienced on the R/V Savannah to mold future lessons and projects. In late June, several dozen miles off the Southeast… Read more »
SkIO Student Spotlight: Michael Sheridan
Originally from Northwest Ohio, Michael Sheridan is a master’s student and research assistant in Clifton Buck’s lab at the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO). Sheridan received his… Read more »
Skidaway Institute scientist returns from training in Venice, Italy
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 »
Explosion of plastic pollution topic of Evening @ Skidaway program
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 »
Tour the Earth by satellite in Evening @ Skidaway program
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 »
Marine pandemics to be focus of Evening @ Skidaway
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 »
Understanding and reducing plastic pollution focus of Evening @ Skidaway Sept. 12
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 »
Evening @ Skidaway Aug. 8
Harmful algal blooms focus of Evening @ Skidaway Savannah, Ga. – Harmful algal blooms (HABs) can negatively affect ecosystems along the southeastern U.S. coast, yet monitoring efforts in Georgia lag… Read more »
Harmful algal blooms focus of Evening @ Skidaway
Savannah, Ga. – Harmful algal blooms (HABs) can negatively affect ecosystems along the southeastern U.S. coast, yet monitoring efforts in Georgia lag behind those in adjacent states, meaning scientists are… Read more »