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Glider team member Ben Hefner prepares to launch a glider

UGA Skidaway Institute underwater gliders contribute to hurricane forecasts

The U.S. Navy and the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography are teaming up this summer to track hurricanes.

A specialized imaging system for viewing zooplankton is launched from a research vessel.

Skidaway Institute researchers receive $1 million grant to study oceanic food web

Savannah, Ga. – A team of University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography scientists has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to study the way tiny zooplankton alter the marine food web on the continental shelf.

ship blown snow

COVID delayed Arctic researchers head home

My time working at the MOSAiC ice floe has come to an end, and I am currently traveling south on Polarstern towards Svalbard, where the exchange between personnel from Legs 3 and 4 of the project will take place.

A Skidaway Institute glider named “Angus” begins a mission. Photo credit: Kim Donoghue

UGA Skidaway Institute scientists use high-tech tools to track fish migrations

Savannah, Ga.

UGA Skidaway Institute researcher Jay Brandes with the Raman microscope.

New high-tech microscope to bolster UGA Skidaway Institute's microplastics research

Savannah, Ga. – A new, high-tech microscope is giving scientists at the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography a tool to study the tiniest particles and organisms in our environment in a whole new light.

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