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Marine Sciences interdisciplinary undergraduate and Masters graduate student Lydia (Meg) Babcock-Adams working in the Medeiros lab was one of the 12 Franklin College students selected by our dean to receive the Presidential Award of Excellence!

To recognize his outstanding efforts in instruction, graduate student John Ledoux has been awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, with which UGA honors teaching assistans who excelled in their performance. Congratulations!

 

What types of compounds and signals are passed between phytoplankton and bacteria in the ocean? Marine Sciences doctoral student Bryndan Durham discovered two previously unknown organic sulfur compounds that are released by diatoms into seawater and rapidly scavenged by nearby bacteria.

Natalie McLenaghan, a Master of Science student working with Dr. Merryl Alber has received the 2015 Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship.

Samantha Joye, UGA Athletic Association Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of marine sciences has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor bestowed upon them by their peers for "scientifically or socially distinguished efforts…