S.C. Sea Grant Consortium News

University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides has been reelected chair of S.C. Sea Grant Consortium’s Board of Directors. Pastides began his third term on January 1, 2019.

The S.C. Sea Grant Consortium has two new staff members – Human Resources Manager Marlena Davis and Coastal Resilience Specialist Landon Knapp.

S.C. Sea Grant Consortium Board of Directors will hold its annual meeting from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on December 19, 2018 in the College of Charleston President’s boardroom, 66 George Street, Charleston, S.C.

S.C. Sea Grant Consortium nominees Zachary Cannizzo, Justine Lundsted, and Stacey Weinstock have been selected for the 2019 Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship.

Sean Poppy, an outreach educator at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL), is the latest winner of the S.C. Environmental Awareness Award.

Hamed Majidzadeh, Ph.D. has joined the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium staff as the coastal environmental quality specialist.

S.C. Sea Grant Consortium nominee Kelsey McClellan has been selected for a two-year Coastal Management Fellowship by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management.

About 75 residents of neighborhoods around Filbin Creek participated in the North Charleston Flood Expo on July 10, 2018.

S.C. Sea Grant Consortium Marine Education Specialist Elizabeth Vernon (E.V.) Bell was selected by the Lowcountry STEM Collaborative as its June 2018 STEM Educator of the Month.

Two new staff members have joined the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium – Crystal Narayana as web developer and graphic artist and Shaun Moylan as manager of information technology resources.

Students planted seabeach amaranth, a federally threatened species, as part of a coastal restoration effort.

People who have managed fishery processing and distribution in McClellanville, S.C. for decades are aging and the future of their docks is in doubt.