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Mon., December 31, 2012 5:00pm
Researchers on the Georgia coast are looking at the links between the BP oil spill and diminished crab and shrimp catches in the Gulf. The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography is part of a team of marine labs studying the effects of spilled oil with a half-million dollar grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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Mon., November 19, 2012 7:15am
Savannah's Skidaway Institute of Oceanography will become part of the University of Georgia. State university system officials this week unveiled the move a year after they merged eight other colleges and universities into four.
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Thu., June 21, 2012 1:20pm
Coastal-area researchers are hoping to dispel a widely-held notion on Georgia's coast: that hurricanes never will be a threat. Georgia hasn't taken a direct hit from a major hurricane in more than a century. Over the last hundred years, only four minor storms made landfall here. The last one was David 33 years ago.
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Thu., May 10, 2012 6:57am
The University System of Georgia has approved pay large increases for the presidents of the state’s top public institutions. The trustees’ approval of deferred compensation will double the salary of the University of Georgia’s president.
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Thu., April 26, 2012 4:00pm
Researchers say, there's little difference between new "eco-friendly" docks and those that don't even try to protect salt marshes. Scientists spent three years studying new different types of docks designed to cast fewer shadows on the marsh. They concluded, they're not much better than ordinary docks.
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Mon., January 2, 2012 3:00pm
A researcher has ruled out lack of maintenance as a reason banks along the state's Intracoastal Waterway are eroding. A Georgia scientist looked at erosion on the snake-shaped boating route that serves recreational boaters. Geologist Clark Alexander says, he found, boaters are causing the erosion.
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Mon., October 24, 2011 12:01am
Scientists are investigating how drought kills crabs and marshes on Georgia's coast. Much of the state remains in drought despite recent rains. That puts pressure on rivers and eventually Georgia's broad estuaries. A researcher says, crab diseases seem to flare up when drought chokes off freshwater river flows.
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Fri., March 11, 2011 4:41pm
Even though the Japanese earthquake occured on the other side of the world, it still registered as massive to Georgians monitoring the earth. One geologist on the Georgia coast says, the earthquake's massive tidal wave likewise will be measured in oceans all over the world -- if only barely.
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Mon., May 17, 2010 2:36pm
It's only a matter of time before spill oil reaches the "loop current." Fr
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Thu., March 11, 2010 7:19pm
Is it too late? Is there anything local government can do? Those issues a
