Off to Alaska!
Professor Marc Frischer and research technician Victoria Baylor are traveling to Point Barrow, Alaska for field work on their project to study the effects of global climate change on the… Read more »
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Skidaway Institute scientists differ with officials over amount of remaining oil
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography scientists Dick Lee and Jay Brandes have been working with other scientists from the University of Georgia and Georgia Sea Grant to ascertain the threat from… Read more »
Skidaway scientist Dana Savidge promoted
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography researcher Dana Savidge has been promoted to associate professor. A physical oceanographer, Savidge joined Skidaway Institute in 2003 as an assistant professor. Savidge studies Gulf Stream… Read more »
Catherine Edwards joins Skidaway Institute
Physical oceanographer Catherine Edwards has joined the faculty of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography as an assistant professor. Edwards received both her bachelor’s degree in physics and her doctorate in… Read more »
More on the oil spill and the Atlantic Coast
Earlier this month a group of experts from the institutions of the South Atlantic Sea Grant Program gathered at Skidaway Institute for a discussion of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM)… Read more »
Oil Spill Update — from Baton Rouge
Skidaway Institute’s Jay Brandes is attending a conference of scientists discussing the Gulf spill in Baton Rouge, La. Here is his first report on the meetings. This morning we had… Read more »
Is the oil coming to Georgia? (Update 5-24)
Updated 2:25 pm EDT May 24 We have been getting questions over the past few days about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “Is it going to make… Read more »
Watch out for the polar bears!
Skidaway Institute research tech Victoria Baylor and grad student Zac Tait just returned to warm, sunny Skidaway Island from their first sample trip to Barrow, Alaska. Here is their account… Read more »
1991 tritium release prompts current salt marsh research
A release of radioactive cooling water from the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C. provided the spark for a current research project at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. The object of… Read more »
Memorial fund for Skidaway Institute professor grows
An anonymous donor has agreed to match all donations to the Peter G. Verity Memorial Fund for Ocean and Environmental Research up to a total of $10,000. The fund was… Read more »