Salt marshes losing race to rising sea level
A race between rising sea levels and sediment discharge from coastal rivers may determine the future health of salt marshes in Georgia and South Carolina, and it appears that rising… Read more »
A race between rising sea levels and sediment discharge from coastal rivers may determine the future health of salt marshes in Georgia and South Carolina, and it appears that rising… Read more »
The Semester@Skidaway cohort got an up-close look at coastal processes with a field trip to Wassaw Island. The trip was organized by UGA Skidaway Institute Director Clark Alexander and his… Read more »
The UGA marine science students in the Semester@Skidaway program took their first research cruise on board the Research Vessel Savannah over the weekend of Oct. 8-9. Professor Jay Brandes led… Read more »
(Published in UGA Research’s on-line magazine.) Georgia’s Atlantic seaboard stretches from the northern tip of Tybee Island to the bottom of Cumberland Island to the south. While that distance measures… Read more »
After two years of delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, University of Georgia Skidaway Institute scientists participated in their first cruise of their four-year project to study how dust in… Read more »
The fall semester 2022 marks a major milestone in the growth of the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute’s education mission beyond its historical role as a research laboratory. The Semester@Skidaway… Read more »
UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography director Clark Alexander was voted the 2022-23 president-elect of the Southern Association of Marine Laboratories (SAML), and will serve as president for 2023-2024. SAML is… Read more »
By MD Masud-Ul-Alam Light, physics, sensors, satellites, and the ocean! All these are essential components of the International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group Summer Lecture Series on Ocean Optics. I am a… Read more »
The UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and Saildrone recently conducted a joint exercise utilizing autonomous underwater vehicles (gliders) and autonomous surface vessels called saildrones at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary.… Read more »
University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography emeritus professor Stuart Wakeham was recently named the 2021 recipient of the Alfred Treibs Award. The award was presented by the Organic Geochemistry… Read more »