Category Archives: Marine Science

Marine Science

Members of the Rivero-Calle Lab invited a group of 10 USG scientists aboard the Savannah. (Photos submitted by Sara Rivero-Calle, pictured here in the bottom right.)

 Marine Science May 08, 2025

Skidaway lab hosts USG scientists aboard R/V Savannah

MARTA Rail Cars deployed as artificial reefs on L Reef off the coast of Georgia. Captured seven months after deployment by GA Department of Natural Resources divers.

 Marine Science April 30, 2025

Study highlights the economic benefits of Georgia’s artificial reefs

A researcher at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary deploying a shallow water hydrophone to record sound. Photo courtesy of NOAA.

 Marine Science March 19, 2025

Improving acoustic telemetry: Study shows how wind affects fish tracking

University of Georgia undergraduate students attending the Semester at Skidaway program sort through marine life caught during a trawl in the Wassaw Sound aboard the R/V Savannah. The program places students on the Georgia coast for unique experiences learning methods and concepts from marine science researchers.

 Marine Science February 06, 2025

Skidaway looks back at eventful year of upgrades, impact

A total suspended particle sampler, which filters the air for aerosol particles, and a rain sampler set up on a monitoring station near Oahu, Hawaii. (Photo courtesy of SkIO faculty member Clifton Buck.)

 Marine Science January 31, 2025

Study unveils dust patterns over time in the North Pacific

Iceburg

 Marine Science November 21, 2024

Science on the southern seas: A journal

Claire Zwiers Cook, a doctoral student in Natalie Cohen’s lab, stands next to the new Attune CytPix Flow Cytometer. Photo by Jackson K. Schroeder.

 Marine Science November 13, 2024

Cohen adds flow cytometry imaging to Skidaway lab

Adam Greer (right) and graduate student Grace Mann prepare the towed plankton imaging instrument aboard the R/V Savannah, as Derrick Dozier-Muhammed, principal of Johnson High School, watches.

 Marine Science November 06, 2024

New generation of plankton imaging systems offer flexibility

Jay Brandes stands with the new isotope ratio mass spectrometry system in the Skidaway Island Stable Isotope Laboratory.

 Marine Science November 01, 2024

Skidaway lab installs state-of-the-art isotope ratio mass spectrometry system

Picture of a Moray Eel on a black background.

 Marine Science October 16, 2024

Study reveals how eel ear bones provide insights into trace metal sources on the continental shelf