NEWSROOM
Louisiana
Sea Grant Receives APEX Award
July
3, 2007
BATON ROUGE
– The Louisiana Sea Grant College Program (LSGCP) communications
office is the recipient of a 2007 APEX Award of Excellence for
its documentary Sister Storms: A Louisiana Sea Grant Response.
The short
film explores the professional and personal challenges three Sea
Grant Extension agents faced immediately following Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita and continued to experience nearly a year later
during the rebuilding process. On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina
devastated southeast Louisiana. Only a few weeks later on Sept.
24, 2005, Hurricane Rita caused similar destruction on the state’s
southwest coast.
Nearly 5,000
entries in 11 major categories were submitted to the Nineteenth
Annual Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX) competition, sponsored
by Communications Concepts Inc. Sister Storms, which can be viewed
at www.laseagrant.org,
received the Award of Excellence in the Special Purpose Electronic
and Video Publications category.
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 College Program, a network of
32 programs in each of the U.S. coastal and Great Lakes states
and Puerto Rico.
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