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Graduate students visit Jekyll Island to learn about coastal infrastructure
Who says field trips stop after high school? Last week, IRIS graduate students studying coastal resilience and environmental engineering traveled to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The group met with conservation researchers and practitioners at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, Jekyll Island Authority and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Coastal Resource Division (DNR-CRD). Led by Professor Matt Bilskie of IRIS and…
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Jenna Jambeck named 2024 SEC Professor of the Year
Congratulations to affiliate researcher Dr. Jenna Jambeck on being named the 2024 Professor of the Year by the Southeastern Conference! Jambeck is a Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Georgia. She has previously been awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Grant for her research investigating the global scale of plastic pollution and how to address it. Read…
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Call for abstracts: International Conference on Shellfish Restoration
The International Conference on Shellfish Restoration (ICSR2024) will be held at the Jekyll Island Convention Center on September 15-18, 2024. Ahead of the conference, Georgia Sea Grant is calling for presentation abstracts on molluscan bivalves: restoration or conservation, marine or freshwater, clams or oysters– if your research has to do with any of these, you’re invited to send a presentation!…
