SkIO hosts first Open Lab Night of 2025
More than 60 visitors from the Savannah area and beyond gathered at the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) on Tuesday, April 22, for the Institute’s first Open… Read more »
oceanography
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 »
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 »
SkIO Student Spotlight: Grace Mann
Grace Mann, a native of the Turks and Caicos Islands, is a master’s student working as a research assistant with SkIO faculty member Adam Greer in the Zero-C Lab at… 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 »
Cohen lab installs new, advanced flow cytometer with imaging capabilities
The University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography has received and installed a new, advanced flow cytometer with imaging capabilities in the lab of faculty member Natalie Cohen. The machine… Read more »