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Louisiana
Sea Grant Receives APEX Award
July
6, 2006
The Louisiana
Sea Grant College Program (LSGCP) communications office is the
recipient of the 2006 APEX Award of Excellence for One-of-a-Kind
Crisis and Emergency Communications for LSGCP’s Louisiana
Hurricane Recovery Resources Web Site.
Responding
to the need for information in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita, LSGCP Communications launched the Web site at www.laseagrant.org/hurricane/.
Officially unveiled Sept. 19, 2005, it offered visitors information
on topics such as wetlands, seafood, water quality, ports, economic
impacts and rebuilding concerns. Through a question-and-answer
format with experts from a variety of fields, residents, business
owners and community leaders could find the information they need
to make decisions about their immediate future.
In its first 10 weeks of operation, more than 6,400 people visited
the site.
Nearly 5,000
entries in 11 categories and 102 subcategories were submitted
to the Eighteenth Annual Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX)
competition, sponsored by Communications Concepts Inc.
Since its
establishment in 1968, LSGCP has worked to promote stewardship
of the state’s coastal resources through a combination of
research, education and outreach programs critical to the cultural,
economic and environmental health of Louisiana’s coastal
zone. Louisiana Sea Grant, based at Louisiana State University,
is part
of the National Sea Grant Program, a network of 32 programs in
each of the U.S. coastal and Great Lakes states and Puerto Rico.
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