Coastal Georgia Projects

Monitoring Sweetgrass Restoration on Jekyll Island
Monitoring Sweetgrass Restoration on Jekyll Island

Monitoring Sweetgrass Restoration on Jekyll Island

With support from a USDA-NIFA Developing Pathways internship, Carlie Blackburn — a recent graduate from the College of Coastal Georgia — spent the summer of 2023 on Jekyll Island, conducting an innovative monitoring study of a large sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia sericea)…

Culturally and ecologically important plants on the Georgia Coast
Culturally and ecologically important plants on the Georgia Coast

Culturally and ecologically important plants on the Georgia Coast

BIO-CULTURAL CONSERVATION ON THE COAST! We are starting a new project, funded by NOAA and Georgia Sea Grant, investigating sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia sericea) and other plant species of cultural and ecological importance to Gullah Geechee people and Georgia’s maritime ecosystems.  The…

Environmental Stressors, Land Use Legacies, and Georgia’s Iconic Maritime Forests
Environmental Stressors, Land Use Legacies, and Georgia’s Iconic Maritime Forests

Environmental Stressors, Land Use Legacies, and Georgia’s Iconic Maritime Forests

Understanding the past, present, and future fate of forests on Georgia’s barrier islands is motivating a lot of work in our lab these days…. Together with Warnell faculty colleagues Nate Nibbelink and Clint Moore, we received 4 years of funding…