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 […]

Rikki Lynne Skelton is the new sponsored research coordinator for Louisiana Sea Grant, where she will support the coordination and management of sponsored research projects and facilitate collaboration among interdisciplinary research teams. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology with a minor in health from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a […]

Marion “Lizzy” Vise, a 2024 graduate of Louisiana State University with a master’s degree in environmental science and communications intern at the Water Institute, has been selected as a 2026 Knauss Fellowship finalist. She was nominated for the fellowship by the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program. “I am committed to advancing actionable solutions for the […]

The Water Connects Us All (www.laseagrant.org/education/pd/the-water-connects-us-all/) project, sponsored by the NOAA Fisheries B-WET program, brought ten Louisiana teachers to West Feliciana Parish this fall for the Cat Island Knowledge Exchange, a place-based professional learning experience focused on Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs). Following a summer institute at the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Minnesota, […]