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Franklin senior Kennedy Ingram breaks ground in ocean science graduation milestone

“It’s the mystery of it,” says Kennedy Ingram about the ocean. “Knowing that over 80% of the ocean is still unexplored makes me feel like there’s so much left to discover.” In May, Ingram will graduate from the UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences with a B.S. in ocean science and a minor in geology. She is one of the first two Black women to graduate from the program, and her academic path reflects Franklin’s emphasis on experiential and…
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Hands-on and fearless: How Macie Phillips found her place in marine science

For Macie Phillips, choosing the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia felt like destiny. As the youngest of four siblings who graduated from UGA, she was ready to complete the family tradition. But it was the university’s marine science program that truly sealed the deal. As a Double Dawg in ocean sciences and ecology, Phillips took advantage of the many multidisciplinary opportunities available through Franklin.…
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The South Atlantic Bight: a living laboratory

The swath of US coastline that extends from Cape Hatteras, NC to Cape Canaveral, FLA, known as the South Atlantic Bight, is a broad but relatively shallow section of the Atlantic that reaches to the gulf stream. Situated near its coastal midpoint, the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography houses a research hub into the bight that allows marine scientists and oceanographers near-constant access to this dynamic biological…
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Marine sciences graduate student connects passion for sailing to ocean preservation

UGA goes Beyond the Arch to the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography to catch up with graduate student Grace Mann, whose childhood ocean adventures drive her marine science research: She spent her first 16 years exploring the reefs, sailing the waves, and walking the shores of the Turks and Caicos Islands. These experiences instilled in Mann a love for the ocean and, eventually, a calling to protect it.  Her English-born dad and Texas-bred…
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New tools for finding the right whales

North Atlantic right whales, hunted to extinction by the end of the 19th century, return to the Georgia Bight for calving. Marine scientists search the large ocean sector stretching from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina to Cape Canaveral, Florida to document the number of new calves, which remains below average. Franklin faculty at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography are using a new technology to help track conservation and rebuilding of the…
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Oceanographer Foukal joins SkIO

Nicholas Foukal, physical oceanographer most recently at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has joined the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography faculty. Foukal will begin his role as an assistant professor on August 1, 2024. “I am excited to join the faculty at Skidaway and get started,” said Foukal. “In many ways, I will be continuing what I began at WHOI and will keep the positive momentum going that I had built there on the…
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High school educators join cruise on the R/V Savannah

Invited by UGA scientists Adam Greer and Marc Frischer, Johnson High School (Chatham County) principal Derrick Muhammad and four JHS educators spent just over 24 hours onboard the R/V Savannah several dozen miles off the Georgia coast, learning about the process of collecting oceanographic data with the ultimate goal of relaying insights back to their students and using their experience to develop future lesson plans: “For the UGA Skidaway…
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