Though often overlooked, doliolids and salps play important roles in ocean ecosystems. These two groups of tiny, barrel-shaped, gelatinous sea animals are known to have mass population events called blooms.… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The University of Georgia UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography will present an “Open Lab Night” as part of its Evening @ Skidaway series on Tuesday, July 11. Visitors will have… Read more »
Savannah, Ga. – The University of Georgia UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography will present an “Open Lab Night” as part of its Evening @ Skidaway series on Tuesday, July 11.… Read more »
Since 2010, scientists from 35 countries have been working together as part of the GEOTRACES program to map ocean chemistry in unprecedented detail. The program has taken them from the… Read more »