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The National Sea Grant College Program recently announced six new partnership positions between federal agencies and state programs. These liaisons will integrate Sea Grant extension expertise in science, products and services from agencies and other publicly supported scientific research programs into local communities. One of these partnerships will be based at Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG). […]

Tiffany Pasco has joined the Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG) team as manager of the Better Bycatch Reduction Device Program. She earned her bachelor’s degree in marine science from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla., and her master’s degree in oceanography from Louisiana State University (LSU). Before joining LSG, she worked for the Freshwater Ecology Group […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded the Louisiana, Mississippi-Alabama, Texas and Florida Sea Grant programs $80,561 for a Food from the Sea initiative designed to support seafood industry workforce development. The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) project will bridge the gaps between various state and other efforts to build a regional collaboration that […]

Jennifer Cook is the new education coordinator at Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG). She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana Tech University in geography and history and her teaching certification from the Louisiana Resource Center for Educators. She also received her Education as a Second Language certification from Louisiana State University, her mentor teacher […]

The first three undergraduate research projects funded through a Louisiana Sea Grant/Louisiana Space Grant (LSG/LaSPACE) collaboration have been announced. The joint program, called Louisiana Space and Sea Grant Opportunity (LaSSO), is modeled after similar, long-established undergraduate research programs at both LSG and LaSPACE. LSG will be funding a project titled: Applying Deep Learning for Prediction […]

UPDATE: The LaNERR Site Development Committee has decided to cancel the upcoming Town Hall Meetings scheduled for September due to Hurricane Ida recovery efforts in Louisiana. At this time we do not know when the meetings will be rescheduled. We encourage you to sign up for the e-mail listserv to stay informed of updates.   […]

Three graduate students at Louisiana State University (LSU) and one from Loyola University have been named 2022 Knauss Fellowship finalists. At LSU in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Nazla Bushra is a doctoral student who will graduate in August; Elsa Gutierrez is a master’s student who will graduate in May 2022; and Allyson […]

Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG) is asking commercial fishermen to take a 10-minute online survey about how they seek refuge from hurricanes and tropical storms. The survey can be found at  https://tinyurl.com/harbor-refuge. “We want to know where commercial fishermen get their information about approaching storms; have they considered finding a harbor of refuge or tie-up location when […]