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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…

Congratulations, Dr. Lear!

Kristen Lear successfully completed and defended her dissertation this summer, with her dream job already lined up — as the Endangered Species Interventions Specialist for the Agave Restoration Initiative at Bat Conservation International. Congratulations and Bon Voyage! Even though Kristen…

Commodity Frontiers, Social Cohesion, and Livelihood Adaptation
Commodity Frontiers, Social Cohesion, and Livelihood Adaptation

Commodity Frontiers, Social Cohesion, and Livelihood Adaptation

This synthesis of trends in livelihood adaptation in a Kenyan pastoralist community focused on two themes, which interact to influence governance of common pool resources:  (1) the broader phenomenon of commodity frontiers, and (2) social cohesion within communities. Gabriele Volpato,…