Summer activities at Skidaway

Things are fairly busy around the Skidaway Institute campus this summer. The most obvious activity is the construction on our new laboratory building. The state general assembly approved $5 million… Read more »

 

We hate to brag, but…

The employees here at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography were just honored with a very nice recognition.  Skidaway Institute won Georgia’s “Governor’s Cup” which is awarded annually to five state agencies… Read more »

 

Waves, currents and radar

One of our scientists, Dana Savidge, recently received a $180,000 grant from the Georgia Research Alliance to continue with the development of a coastal radar system. This high frequency radar… Read more »

 

We have a new boat!

Our new research vessel (boat) arrived yesterday. Pretty cool! The 28-foot fiberglass boat was specially designed for rapid surveys of shallow water environments. It is powered with twin Yamaha 250… Read more »

 

New building underway!

We broke ground on our long-awaited new laboratory building this morning. This is actually pretty exciting. The $5 million, 11,000 square foot facility will provide us some much-needed space to… Read more »