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Athens, Ga. – Clark Alexander, a scientist with a long history of fostering collaboration and excellence in research, has been named director of the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is currently undergoing rapid growth.

Anna Tansik recently had a very successful dissertation defense last Wednesday. We are so proud and from all of us in the Marine Science Department, CONGRATULATIONS!

Ms. Aimee Oyinlade Oyekan, a UGA Biology major shown here with Professor Hollibaugh, graduated this spring and is now an intern at the University of Oregon’s SPUR program (spur.uoregon.edu).  Ms. Oyekan worked as a student intern in Dr.

Professor Hollibaugh recently went on a trip to sample arsenic metabolizing microbes in Mono Lake, California.  Mono Lake contains large concentrations (200 mM total arsenic) as a result of geothermal activity in the watershed.  Arsenic has accumulated in the lake since the end of the…