Oceanographic training on the R/V Savannah

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Students from UGA and other universities spent the first half of the course at the UGA Marine Institute on Sapelo Island and the second half at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. During the intensive studies program, they researched animals, plants, microbes and processes in coastal environments and participated in a small research cruise to the Georgia coast aboard the R/V Savannah.

“We wanted to use the coastal facilities and get students down on the coast and use some of the resources we have down here, both at the marine institute at Sapelo Island and at Skidaway,” said Jim Nelson, an associate professor at the Skidaway Institute in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ marine sciences department.

The program was directed by Mary Ann Moran, a Distinguished Research Professor in Marine Sciences; Nelson; and Dana Savidge, an associate professor with the Skidaway Institute.

Summer is filled with opportunities for UGA students, across campus, around the state and all over the world. The chance to work with and learn from some of our best researchers, whether in the lab here on campus or like these students down on Sapelo and Skidaway, is some of the most valuable time spent for both our faculty and our students. And not a bad place to be for the summer, out on the water off the Georgia barrier islands.