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• Farm raises boutique oysters:
  Project shows business potential for oyster growers
• Program lands charter-boat operators in classroom
• Extension trains leaders
  to market foods online
• Volunteers create habitat
  on Deer Island
• Ole Miss School of Law wins environmental moot court competition
• Deborah Jefferson joins Sea Grant
• John Grigsby marks 10 years
• Group aims to encourage climate-adaptation efforts
• Facilitators learn about resilience self-assessment
• Kay Bruening retires after 20 years
• Girl Scouts to grow oyster garden
• From the Director

Sea Briefs is a report on the results of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.

Editor: Melissa Schneider

This newsletter is available in PDF format from:
masgc.org/seabriefs

MASGC supports applied, interdisciplinary marine science research, education and outreach efforts to foster the sustainable development and management of the Mississippi and Alabama coasts and nearshore ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico

Mississippi-Alabama
Sea Grant Consortium
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
Phone: 228-818-8838
E-mail: seabriefs@masgc.org
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Deborah Jefferson joins Sea Grant

Deborah Jefferson of Gulfport has joined the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium as a temporary executive support associate in the Ocean Springs office at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Lab.

She will support the director and deputy director and also serve as office manager.

“Deborah has a very solid and diverse background in business administration,” said LaDon Swann, director of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium. “These skills will be very important in efficiently managing many aspects of our administrative office.”

Deborah has served as the deputy director for a local YouthBuild Program, a fair housing coordinator and a technical and training specialist at USM’s Institute for Disability Studies Department.

She has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from USM.