Friday, April 7, 2023 Georgia Sea Grant partners with the Department of Defense to build resilience in the Southeast Georgia Sea Grant partners with the Department of Defense to build resilience in the Southeast Friday, April 7, 2023 0 419 Georgia Sea Grant partners with the Department of Defense to build resilience in the Southeast Georgia Sea Grant secured funding from the Department of Defense and the National Sea Grant College Program to hire Michelle Covi as the country’s first Coastal Resilience DOD Liaison in 2021. For the last year, Covi has created a suite of reports and resources that are now being used by Sea Grant programs, military installations, and coastal resilience specialists across the region to inform collaborative resilience projects. Read more
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Sea Grant and U.S. Coastal Research Program invest in strengthening resilient coastal communities Sea Grant and U.S. Coastal Research Program invest in strengthening resilient coastal communities Wednesday, January 25, 2023 0 4421 Sea Grant and U.S. Coastal Research Program invest in strengthening resilient coastal communities Through a joint competition with the U.S. Coastal Research Program (USCRP), ten new projects were selected for a total of $3.9 million in funding to translate research into application for communities. Additionally, Sea Grant programs across the nation received an additional total of $4.2 million in NOAA Sea Grant funds to increase local capacity, engagement, research, and implementation for addressing resilience challenges. Read more
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 Sea Grant-supported application guide for the 2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report now available Sea Grant-supported application guide for the 2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report now available Wednesday, June 22, 2022 0 3522 Sea Grant-supported application guide for the 2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report now available Guide will help coastal communities plan for significant sea level rise Community planners and decision makers now have an application guide to help them plan for the significant sea level rise the United States is expected to see in the next 30 years. The guide is a response to the 2022 Interagency Sea Level Rise report, which projected about a foot of higher waters, on average, along U.S. coastlines by 2050. Read more
Thursday, September 16, 2021 Multistate Sea Grant extension team awarded $2.4 million to share, inform reef fish science Multistate Sea Grant extension team awarded $2.4 million to share, inform reef fish science Thursday, September 16, 2021 0 4206 Multistate Sea Grant extension team awarded $2.4 million to share, inform reef fish science The National Sea Grant College Program has announced that a regional collaborative of Sea Grant fisheries extension specialists, university scientists and fisheries managers will receive $2.4 million to develop and implement extension and outreach programming related to data and information from three large research projects focused on estimating the number of reef fish in the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Read more
Friday, September 10, 2021 Sea Grant Selects “Food from the Sea” Career Program Development Projects Sea Grant Selects “Food from the Sea” Career Program Development Projects Friday, September 10, 2021 0 5758 Sea Grant Selects “Food from the Sea” Career Program Development Projects NOAA’s National Sea Grant College Program and Office of Sustainable Fisheries awarded approximately $900,000 of FY21 federal funds to support projects that will initiate “Food from the Sea'' career development programs. With these funds, Sea Grant programs and partners will work collaboratively with members of the fishing industry to identify training needs and develop updated and/or new resources and programming to address those needs. Read more