Team Action Plan III Projects
Embrace the Gulf!
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Gulf Star 2017 Awards
Watershed Monitoring with Underserved High School Students | Mobile Baykeeper
This project provides classroom and hands-on training to teach students at LeFlore High School in Mobile, Alabama about issues impacting water quality, training them in water monitoring, and empowering them to become active environmental stewards.
Video Case Studies | Mississippi State University Television Center and Dauphin Island Sea Lab
Outreach videos highlighting coastal community resilience and marine debris projects, emphasizing success stories and providing inspiration for other coastal communities Gulf wide.
Tracking Trash | Dauphin Island Sea Lab
The goal of this project is to educate middle and high school students and teachers about the marine debris problem in coastal Alabama; show students how technology can be used to study a problem, and develop an engineering/solution-based mindset and instill a sense of stewardship for their local waterway. Shared project with the Marine Debris Cross-Team Initiative.
Marine Debris Education & Prevention | Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program
This project will engage high school and college students in the data collection and monitoring of marine debris and sediment microplastics on a private beach in Louisiana. Students will spend one day per quarter in the field researching, collecting, and analyzing marine debris data and preparing action items to stop it at the source. Shared project with the Marine Debris Cross-Team Initiative.
Marine Debris Dash | Ocean Hour
This project works systematically to clean up specific shores in northwest Florida, collecting debris and tracking the items on the NOAA marine debris tracker. Using the data, this project will work with local businesses and government officials to curb their incidence on the shore. Shared project with the Marine Debris Cross-Team Initiative.
Plastic Free Gulf Coast in Mississippi | Gulf Coast Community Design Studio
This project aims to reduce the use of single-use plastic in the three coastal counties of Mississippi and provide data showing this reduction. Shared project with the Marine Debris Cross-Team Initiative.
Microplastics Citizen Science Project | Mississippi State University
The purpose of this microplastics project is to demonstrate the type and location of degraded microplastics. This grant is a citizen science project where sediment and water samples are collected and processed for microplastics, then integrated into an existing visualization tool. The data collection and visualization tool is already being used by Florida Microplastic Awareness Project and is being expanded to marine debris programs in other Gulf states. Shared project with the Marine Debris Cross-Team Initiative.
Urban Youth Conservation Corps | Limitless Vistas, Inc.
This project increases awareness of the losses and degradation of coastal habitats caused by invasive species. This project also educates and trains students in conservation field techniques that can be used to pursue jobs in the conservation industry and/or generate interest in seeking environmental or conservation college degree.
