Articles

• 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
MASGP 011-012-01

Facilitators learn about resilience self-assessment

Michael Shelton of the Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, second from right, discusses the Coastal Community Resilience Index during a workshop at the Mississippi State University Coastal Research and Extension Center in Biloxi, Miss. Other members of the discussion group include Bill Mahan of Florida Sea Grant, left, David Bryant of Georgia Sea Grant, Cile Guidry of Louisiana Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) and Rhonda Cummins of Texas Sea Grant. The self-assessment tool helps communities identify disaster vulnerabilities. More information: masgc.org/ri.