MASGC supports applied, interdisciplinary marine science research, education and outreach to foster the sustainable development and management of ecosystems.
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ALT Bar chart illustrating year-over-year growth in living shoreline assessment requests from 2019 to 2025, culminating in the highest total in 2025.
ALT Master Naturalist students on a boat looking at the wetlands at Grand Bay NERR.
ALT Graphic design with a headshot photo of a man, a Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant logo and text reading New Director Steve Sempier Ph.D.
ALT Students wearing medals stand with educators in a high school gym.
ALT Illustration of a tired, worried-looking man lying awake in bed with his hands folded over a blanket. Surrounding him are circular icons showing warning signs of stress: throwing away spoiled food, an angry fisherman yelling, bottles of alcohol and pills, a smartphone with many notifications, a distant couple, and a watch showing an early morning wake-up time. The title “Warning Signs” appears above the man, with the caption “Stress and the Seafood Industry” below.
ALT Six dried and altered guitarfish specimens arranged against a dark background.
ALT Automated Flip Farm system lifts and flips oyster cages during harvest in coastal New Zealand waters.
ALT Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium Director LaDon Swann receives a William Q. Wick Visionary Career Leadership Award certificate from Abigail Archer, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant Program and the Sea Grant Extension Assembly.
ALT A student holds a set of shark teeth and makes a face opening their mouth to show their teeth.
ALT A large white shark swims directly toward the camera in deep blue water. Overlaid on the lower part of the image is the title page of a scientific article from Frontiers in Marine Science titled “Fishery-independent camera surveys provide novel observations of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) off coastal Alabama,” authored by J. Marcus Drymon and colleagues.
ALT Two headshot photos of Steve Sempier and Eric Sparks with the text "Meet the Candidates for Director" and a Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant logo.
ALT Young students participate in a trunk habitat scavenger hunt activity, exploring educational materials about deep-sea coral as they sit on the floor near a large aquarium.
ALT Animals graze in a green pasture with Chief Mountain (Montana) in the background.
ALT Attendees sit in rows in a classroom listening to a presentation.
ALT A student observes plankton samples on a digital microscope.
ALT wo researchers in a laboratory carefully working with oysters at black water-filled trays on a counter, using tools while wearing gloves.
ALT Left panel shows two women smiling as they meet at the front door of a house with text encouraging people in mobile or manufactured homes to head to a friend’s secure home during a tornado watch. Right panel shows a happy multigenerational family gathered around a board game, highlighting that visiting family or friends provides both safety and quality time during severe weather.
ALT Infographic showing eight steps of the scientific method, from observing to communicating results.