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Louisiana
Sea Grant Receives APEX Award
July
8, 2008
BATON ROUGE
– The Louisiana Sea Grant College Program (LSGCP) communications
office is the recipient of a 2008 APEX Award of Excellence for
its classroom education compact disc Marsh Mission.
The disc allows students
to explore the coastal marshland through the eyes of celebrated
naturalist and photographer CC Lockwood and acclaimed landscape
painter Rhea Gary. The duo shares the story of Louisiana’s
vanishing wetlands through their images and words in two powerful
talks on the disc. Along with their presentations, the CD contains
The Rise and Disappearance of Southeast Louisiana by Dan Swenson,
coastal stewardship messages from Peyton and Eli Manning, and
other educational resources.
Nearly 4,500
entries in 11 major categories were submitted to the Twentieth
Annual Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX) competition, sponsored
by Communications Concepts Inc. Copies of the free Marsh Mission
disc are available by sending a request to jsche15@lsu.edu.
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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