Project Updates

S.C. Sea Grant Consortium-nominated Jesseca Kusher of the College of Charleston selected as 2025 finalist for the Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship.

From February 1, 2023, through January 31, 2024, the Consortium and its member institutions documented 86 impacts and accomplishments, plus 50 products and tools, within five focus areas.

The SHORES initiative addresses the urgent need for climate-resilient engineering in South Carolina’s Lowcountry by providing comprehensive education and hands-on experience to future engineers.

Jocelyn Juliano helped over 40 shrimp fishermen apply for grants to aid their businesses when the industry was affected by a freeze.

The Consortium collaborated with Daufuskie Island Independent School and partners on a 10-week Geographic Information System course for middle school students.

A recent report found that every dollar appropriated to the Consortium results in $9.23 of new economic activity for South Carolina, creating an annual economic impact of $9.0 million.

The Ocean Odyssey Coastliner Program provides educators with direct access to marine industry career-related outreach events and resources.

S.C. Sea Grant Consortium’s Commercial Seafood Apprenticeship Program (CSAP) recently graduated five individuals.

The S.C. Sea Grant Consortium awarded $300,000 in competitive funding to support four research projects that examine the effects of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs).

In 2023, 180 students at Edith L. Frierson Montessori Elementary School, a Title I school on Wadmalaw Island, learned about the importance of oyster- and salt-marsh habitat restoration.

April 23rd to May 3rd was proclaimed “South Carolina Heat Safety Week” by Governor Henry McMaster and Charleston City Mayor William Cogswell.

Folly 2050: Planning for Water, a six-year update to the City of Folly Beach Sea Level Rise Adaptation Report, was recently published.