Nicholas Foukal is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia's Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Month: September 2025| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Appendicularians are abundant zooplankton that make mucous houses, which allow them to filter food from the water. Creating and discarding these houses is an important mechanism for transporting carbon to... Read more » The post Video: Appendicularians up close appeared first on Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
The University of Georgia has promoted Clifton Buck of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) to full professor, effective Aug. 1, 2025. Buck, a faculty member in the Department of... Read more » The post Clifton Buck promoted to full professor appeared first on Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Claire Eilers has been named a Presidential Graduate Fellow. The honor is the UGA's most prestigious fellowship award for new Ph.D. students.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Summary Overview: The R/V Savannah is an effective regional tool equipped with shared instrumentation that supports research and education in the Southeastern US. The vessel averages 144 days a year... Read more »| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Assistant Professor Skidaway Institute of Oceanography 10 Ocean Science Circle Savannah, Georgia. 31411 rivero@uga.edu Education: B.S. Biology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), 2005 M.S. Biological Oceanography, University of Puerto Rico... Read more »| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Month: June 2025| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
A new video takes viewers aboard the Research Vessel Savannah, owned and operated by the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO). Part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System... Read more » The post Welcome aboard the R/V Savannah appeared first on Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
UGA Skidaway Institute faculty member Nick Foukal is co-leading a project measuring the East Greenland Coastal Current.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
The Semester at Skidaway Field Study program places students on the Georgia coast for a unique learning experience.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Semester at Skidaway brings UGA marine science students to the Georgia Coast for a semester-long experiential learning experience.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
The August cruise for DolLAYER in the Gulf of Mexico is officially complete. We were at sea from August 13-26 and had excellent weather almost the entire time. The whole... Read more » The post DolLAYER Summer Gulf Cruise Complete appeared first on Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
The UGA Skidaway Institute is excited to welcome 13 students participating in the 2025 Semester at Skidaway Field Study Program.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
From August 4-8, the newest cohort of graduate students from the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences gathered at the UGA... Read more » The post Photos: SkIO hosts new graduate students for week of experiential learning appeared first on Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Lowin has been named a new investigator for NASA’s Future Investigators in the NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) program.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Professor Skidaway Institute of Oceanography10 Ocean Science Circle Savannah, Ga. 31411 Office: (912) 598-2308 Fax: (912) 598-2477 Email: Marc.Frischer@skio.uga.edu Education: A.B. Washington University, Microbial Genetics 1985. Ph.D. University of South... Read more »| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Claire Zwiers Cook, a doctoral student in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and based at the UGA Skidaway Institute... Read more » The post Claire Zwiers Cook named inaugural Pomeroy Memorial Graduate Fund award winner appeared first on Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
For more than 15 years, SkIO faculty have provided opportunities through Savannah State University’s REU program.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Aaron, K.D., A.T. Greer, P.I. Duffy, L.M. Treible, M.E. Frischer (2025). Stratification intensity structures zooplankton functional trait composition in a continental shelf system. ICES Journal of Marine Science 82(6): fsaf089. doi:... Read more »| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Assistant Professor Skidaway Institute of Oceanography 10 Ocean Science Circle Savannah, GA 31411 Office: (912) 598-2334 Fax: (912) 598-2310 Email: atgreer@uga.edu Education: Ph.D. Marine Biology and Fisheries, University of Miami,... Read more »| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
SkIO's Research Vessel Savannah was outfitted with a new flow-through system featuring more than a dozen instruments.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
The continental shelf is a relatively shallow region of the ocean (0-200 m deep) that is also biologically productive. The reason for this productivity is twofold – these shallow waters... Read more »| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
A blog for the Dol-LAYER and Dol-MICROBE projects| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Professor Department of Marine Sciences and Skidaway Institute of Oceanography University of Georgia Athens 10 Ocean Science Circle Savannah, Ga. 31411 Office: (912) 598-2361 Fax: (912) 598-2310 Email: jay.brandes@skio.uga.edu... Read more »| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
We are a group of biological oceanographers interested in how the physical structure in the ocean environment influences the ecology of marine organisms and their interactions, with particular emphasis on... Read more »| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Ben Lowin is a doctoral student focusing on remote sensing in Sara Rivero-Calle’s Lab at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO).| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Educators from Johnson High School plan to use what they experienced on the R/V Savannah to mold future lessons and projects.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Michael Sheridan is a master's student and research assistant in Clifton Buck's lab at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO).| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
First-year master’s student Ashley Ohall took home a first place prize at this past Microplastics in the Coastal Region conference.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Natalie Cohen, a Skidaway Institute of Oceanography scientist, has been named a 2024 Simons Early Career Investigator.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Claire Zwiers-Cook is a PhD student studying in Natalie Cohen’s lab at SkIO.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
SkIO scientist Sara Rivero-Calle traveled nearly 5,000 miles to Venice, Italy, where she participated in an exclusive training.| Skidaway Institute of Oceanography