Focus Areas

  The GCRC staff address specific scientific issues by holding regular meetings with coastal researchers and managers, maintaining this website as a clearinghouse for information on research activities, synthesizing technical information, and coordinating research efforts on emerging coastal resource issues. 

Our focus areas include:

• Regional Planning - delineate the coastal research needs of the southeast region* and implement a plan to address them. This effort is described in detail in our partner website, www.gcrc.uga.edu/sarrp.htm [opens in new window].
  *(North and South Carolina, Georgia and the Atlantic coast of Florida)

• Marsh Dieback - investigating the causes and extent of saltmarsh vegetation thinning along the Georgia coast

• Coastal Water Quality:

  • Freshwater inflow - and downstream effects on the watershed
• Watershed assessments - to evaluate water quality conditions in the coastal units of the National Park Service in the southeast

• Marsh Hammocks - coastal uplands also known as back-barrier islands

• Coastal Stakeholder Issues - technical support for GA DNR - Coastal Resources Division stakeholder groups