Student blog: Coast to coast, and back again
UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) graduate student Mallory Mintz writes about her journey from the skyscrapers and subways of New York City to researching on the Georgia coast in… Read more »
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The ocean’s hidden engine, the AMOC: Will it collapse, and what happens if it does?
In an interview format, Dr. Nick Foukal, an assistant professor at the UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO), answers questions about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) — the… Read more »
Improving acoustic telemetry: Study shows how wind affects fish tracking
Researchers and fisheries managers who use acoustic telemetry to tag and track fish know of all the challenges involved. Fish tagging costs time and money, and the range that these… Read more »
Graduate students visit SkIO for weeklong experiential learning course
From Monday, March 3, through Friday, March 7, the newest cohort of graduate students from UGA Franklin College’s Department of Marine Sciences gathered at the UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography… Read more »
SkIO Student Spotlight: Emily Gipson
Emily Gipson is a doctoral student working with faculty members Marc Frischer and Jay Brandes in their respective labs at the UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO). Originally from Winter… Read more »
Study unveils dust patterns over time in the North Pacific
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 »
A Semester at Skidaway
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 »
That’s a wrap on the November DolLAYER cruise
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 »
DolLAYER November cruise underway
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 »
New generation of plankton imaging systems offer flexibility
A team of researchers led by University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) scientist Adam Greer is using a new generation of modular shadowgraph imaging systems to study plankton,… Read more »