Category Archives: Marine Science

Marine Science

Grace Mann

 Marine Science July 10, 2025

From sailing to Skidaway

The sun rises over a salt marsh on Sapelo Island.

 Marine Science June 25, 2025

New study documents declining health of coastal marshes

The new flow-through system aboard the R/V Savannah uses more than a dozen instruments to continuously measure biogeochemical parameters on the ocean’s surface.

 Marine Science June 18, 2025

R/V Savannah outfitted with real-time ocean sampling flow-through system

At hydrothermal vents, seawater circulates through cracks and fissures in the seafloor and interacts with hot magma beds, heating the seawater and chemically altering it.

 Marine Science June 11, 2025

From undersea plumes to biotech breakthroughs

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