Fellowship Awarded to Jennifer Hein

Congratulations to Master of Science in Environmental Studies candidate, Jennifer Hein, for being selected for the 2011 Coastal Research Fellowship Program! The South Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRs) offers this opportunity each year with the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium. By encouraging research in the ACE Basin and NI-WB NERRs, fellows explore the impact…

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Guest Blogger: Amanda Lane

Amanda Lane, a Graduate Assistant in the Environmental Studies Program, sent us a wonderful blog post about her first year experience as an M.E.S. Candidate who’s adjusting to life on her own in Grad School: School has been back in session for almost a month now; my, how time flies! My name is Amanda Lane…

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Painting a Portrait

Originally posted in the Post and Courier by Diane Knich on Monday, July 13, 2009. She trudges through the brush and along the edge of Kiawah Island’s marshes almost every day, holding a large metal antennae in the air and listening for the beeps to grow louder from the tracking machine belted to her waist…

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Sarah Latshaw is Awarded an NSF Fellowship

If I could give a standing ovation online, I would!  Sarah Latshaw certainly deserves every bit of celebration for being awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Since 1952, The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 43,000 Graduate Research Fellowships out of more than 500,000 applicants.  That’s only 8.6%!  More than 20 Fellows have…

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