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Folasade Elesho has joined Louisiana Sea Grant as the Grand Isle oyster hatchery manager. Elesho earned her PhD in aquaculture and fisheries from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, where her work focused on fish nutrition and applied aquaculture research. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as a lecturer in the Department of Fisheries and […]

Four students pursing master’s degrees in the fall will be new participants in the Coastal Science Assistantship Program (CSAP), a partnership between the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and Louisiana Sea Grant that provides graduate students with up to three years’ financial support. CSAP supports Master of Science students in science or engineering […]

Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG) is developing an internship program to help bolster the state’s aquaculture workforce. The program will begin in late August, with recruitment and participant applications having started. “Louisiana’s aquaculture landscape – alligators, catfish, oysters, finfish, soft-shelled crab – is robust, but entry into the system is typically based on kinship. Businesses are […]

Five living shoreline marsh protection projects near the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe (PACIT) community have been identified, and initial designs were created as part of a National Academy of Sciences Gulf Research Program grant, spearheaded by Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG). Living shorelines are nature-based solutions – such as oyster reefs, marsh plantings and breakwaters – used […]

Melissa Daigle, J.D., M.A., who served as a research attorney for Louisiana Sea Grant for 17 years, has become Louisiana Sea Grant’s associate director. Daigle’s new position will allow her to amplify LSG’s work, assist the executive director and enhance staff development. Her responsibilities include overseeing annual reporting to the National Sea Grant Office, strategic […]

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) announces new research projects under the Artificial Reef Research Assistantship Program (ARRAP). The program provides graduate assistantship stipends of $30,000 annually, for up to three years, to Master of Science/Arts students enrolled full-time at Louisiana colleges and universities who are involved in research relevant to the Louisiana […]

Researchers at the Louisiana Sea Grant Oyster Research Lab and Louisiana State University’s Math Consultation Clinic (MC²) have developed an automated, image-based tool that counts juvenile oyster seed faster and more accurately than traditional methods. The aim is to replace time-consuming hand-counts with a robust image-segmentation system that identifies and sizes oyster seed from photographs. […]

Eight Louisiana State University (LSU) graduate students are 2025 recipients of the Dr. Jack and Annagreta Hojhdal Van Lopik Superior Graduate Student Research Scholarship. Jack Van Lopik, the first and longest serving executive director of the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program at LSU, and his wife Annagreta Hojhdal Van Lopik, established the scholarship to assist […]