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The Cameron Parish Port, Harbor and Terminal District has been selected for an Alternative Oyster Culture (AOC) grant in the amount of $100,000 to establish a new, 48-acre oyster Park at the southern end of Calcasieu Lake. The Port Commission recently approved the establishment of said Park and encourages potential AOC farmers interested in leasing […]

The Key Resource From the smallest of vegetative plantings to large-scale diversions of the Mississippi River, Louisiana’s coastal restoration efforts all focus directly or indirectly on a single, critical resource – sediment. The capture and retention of sediment is of paramount importance to a coastline that has lost nearly 2,000 square miles of land in […]

A Louisiana Sea Grant/Louisiana Space Grant (LSG/LaSPACE) collaboration will fund two undergraduate research projects beginning in September. 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 fund a project that is titled: Exploring the Possibility of Using Bdellovibrio […]

This summer, Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG) hosted Tatyana Villela, a California State University-Monterey Bay undergraduate, in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) José E. Serrano Educational Partnership Program with Minority Serving Institutions (EPP/MSI) Undergraduate Scholarship Program. The program funds two-year internships for undergraduates studying science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields and […]

Results of the citizen science data will help determine the fate of oil rigs in the Gulf Oil and gas rigs can serve as artificial reefs and provide habitat for ecologically and economically significant fish species such as red snapper and amberjack. In the early 2000s, over 4,000 oil rigs were present in the Gulf […]

When many alternative oyster culture (AOC) operations on Grand Isle were damaged during the 2020 hurricane season, Louisiana State University (LSU) researchers and Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG) personnel thought they found a mechanism to help AOC farms defend against tropical storms. With a $75,000 grant from the National Sea Grant Program, the team hoped to […]

Haley Gambill has joined Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG) as a Marine Extension agent for Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes. She began her new role on Aug. 1. Gambill began her association with LSG in 2020 as a Sea Grant-supported graduate student studying white spot syndrome in cultured crawfish. She also participated in LSG’s Graduate Research Scholars […]

Two graduate students at Louisiana State University (LSU), two from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette (ULL) and one from Loyola University have been named 2023 Knauss Fellowship finalists. All were nominated for the fellowship by the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program. Ashley Booth LSU School of Renewable Natural Resources Booth is a doctoral student concentrating in […]