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From high latitude to high latitude

Earlier this year, Patricia Medeiros and Renato Castelao were funded by NSF to investigate carbon export in high latitude waters in the Southern Ocean.

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UGA Skidaway Institute researchers study estuarine grazing activity

At 4 o’clock on a warm, humid August morning, Quintin Diou-Cass stood on a dock at the University of Georgia’s Skidaway Institute of Oceanography collecting water samples at low tide from the Skidaway River estuary.

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SARAH HARRISON SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS HER THESIS

Sarah Harrison, a student in the Joye lab, successfully defended her thesis “LESSONS FROM THE TAYLOR ENERGY OIL SPILL: HISTORY, SEASONALITY, AND NUTRIENTS LIMITATION” on October 16, 2017.

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Grad Students Present Research at 2017 Institute of Bioinformatics Symposium

Two graduate students- Brent Nowinski and Tito Montenegro- presented exciting Marine Science research at the UGA IOB Symposium (titled Parsing the Microbiome). Below are the abstracts (and additional contributors) associated with the presentations. 

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Microplastics and microfibers prevalent in Georgia coastal waters

Savannah, Ga. – There are more than a trillion microplastic particles and fibers in Georgia’s coastal waters. That is a preliminary estimate by a team of University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography researchers.