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The new senior associate director and extension leader is “eager to build upon the organization’s successes.”

This new partnership helps promote local and sustainable seafood.

Nicole Pilson and R.J. Shelly are the newest coastal and marine resources extension agents to join Texas Sea Grant.

Graduate students across the Texas A&M University System were awarded funding through the Grants-In-Aid of Graduate Research Program.

Jointly appointed with Texas Sea Grant and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Nikki Fitzgerald is Chambers and Jefferson counties’ new coastal and marine resources extension agent

Texas Sea Grant will undergo a program review on April 9-11, 2019 by a team convened by the National Sea Grant Program. The review will be conducted at Texas A&M University and will consider all aspects of Texas Sea Grant’s programs, including management and organization, performance, stakeholder engagement and collaborative activities, including those with various offices of…

Kimber De Salvo’s iron colloid research is at “the cutting edge of trace metal oceanography today.”

Texas Sea Grant was honored to attend and co-sponsor the first ever Texas Plastic Pollution Symposium on October 30th.  Session topics included: Impacts to Fish and Wildlife, Chemistry, Policy & Urban Communities, Monitoring Plastic Pollution, and Solutions. One disturbing theme that was evident across all sessions, is that microplastics are a huge environmental and biological…

ROCKPORT — Private water well owners whose wells flooded should assume that their well water is contaminated until tested, according to Dr. Diane Boellstorff, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service water resource specialist, College Station. “You should not use water from a flooded well for drinking, cooking, making ice, brushing your teeth or even bathing until…

Texas Sea Grant congratulates Heather Wade, Texas Sea Grant’s Senior Associate Director for Planning and Extension, for the prestigious honor of being selected as a Subject Matter Expert for the Resilience Dialogues.  The Resilience Dialogues are a national collaboration effort that works to build climate-resilient communities through facilitated dialogues between scientists, practitioners, and community leaders. …

The new and updated version of The Texas Homeowner’s Handbook to Prepare for Coastal Natural Hazards is here! Whether you’re retrofitting an existing home or repairing or rebuilding a home that was damaged by Hurricane Harvey, a publication available from the Texas Sea Grant College Program at Texas A&M University can provide some helpful information….

Chris Hale, Texas Sea Grant’s Oil Spill Science Outreach Specialist, is a member of Gulf Sea Grant’s Oil Spill Science Outreach Team.  In Portland, Oregon on September 20th, the team was awarded Sea Grant’s highest extension honor, the National Superior Programming Award, for their excellence and outstanding success in oil spill-related science and information outreach. …

Morgen Ayers, an experienced environmental scientist with a background in local government and academia, joined Texas Sea Grant in July 2018 as the program’s Natural Resources Specialist. “I most look forward to the face to face conversations in coastal communities to help solve unique environmental and natural resource needs,” Ayers states. “Whether I am planting…

The Texas Sea Grant College Program recently welcomed a new Fisheries Specialist to its extension team. Laura Picariello is headquartered at Texas Sea Grant’s office on the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMUCC) campus. In her new role, Picariello’s focus is on helping commercial and recreational fishermen understand and take advantage of the latest available fisheries…

A Texas A&M University oceanography doctoral student has been selected to receive the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship for 2019. Andrea Kealoha will spend a year starting next February in Washington, D.C., on a paid fellowship with either the Legislative or Executive Branches of the federal government. The Knauss Fellowships pair highly qualified graduate…

Matt Malecha will work with the Community Resilience Collaborative and evaluate how plan documents and policies work together to help improve resilience.

The Texas Sea Grant College Program at Texas A&M University (TAMU) awarded $43,961 to 23 graduate students at three Texas A&M University System institutions. The funds are awarded through Texas Sea Grant’s Grants-In-Aid of Graduate Research Program, which provides small grants to students enrolled at the main TAMU campus in College Station, Texas A&M University…

The Texas Sea Grant College Program at Texas A&M University has recently hired four new planning and research specialists to bolster its outreach team. Steven C. Washington and Ashley Bennis, the two Community Resilience Collaborative (CRC) Planning Specialists who joined the program earlier this year, are located in Houston and on the Texas A&M University-Corpus…

For the better part of two decades, the stretch of wetland between Magnolia Beach and Indianola was slowly dying, a blemish on the otherwise pristine and beautiful stretch of beach in Calhoun County. Today, thanks to a collaboration of state and federal agencies, higher education, industry and private citizens, a large portion of the salt…

Christine Figgener, a Texas A&M University doctoral candidate whose viral video about a sea turtle found with a straw up its nose has reached more than 20 million viewers, is among the panelists at a free screening of “STRAWS,” an award-winning documentary about plastic pollution in the marine environment, at 4 p.m. April 20 in…

A doctoral student whose research focuses on the resilience of urban water infrastructure is the recipient of the second Texas Sea Grant Special Award at last week’s Texas A&M University (TAMU) Student Research Week (SRW). Kambiz Rasoulkhani, a civil engineering Ph.D. candidate in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, received the $250 prize for his…

Oceanography researchers presented new studies on how the unusual ocean condition contributed to Hurricane Harvey at recent Ocean Sciences Meeting.

As thousands of college students converge on Texas beaches this month, the Texas Sea Grant College Program at Texas A&M University would like everyone to be aware of the dangers of rip currents, which can sweep even the strongest swimmer out to sea. Rip currents cause at least 100 deaths each year at United States…

The Texas Sea Grant College Program at Texas A&M University has awarded $5,700 in research grants to six undergraduate students at the main campus in College Station and Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG). The students are funded as part of the Texas Sea Grant Scholars Undergraduate Research Program, which designates Texas Sea Grant Scholars…