This year the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program (LSG) is funding five Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) projects. Established in 1992 to provide talented undergraduate students with hands-on research experience, LSG has funded more than 200 UROP projects. Each UROP student will gain first-hand knowledge regarding the whole research process from design, implementation, analysis to […]

One of the most time-consuming aspects in shrimp harvesting could be eased through mechanization, and a North Dakota company with ties to Louisiana’s commercial crawfish industry hopes to aid in that process. For more than 50 years, Kerian Machines Inc. has manufactured equipment for sorting fruits and vegetables. In the 1990s, they expanded with crawfish […]

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 […]