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NOAA Sea Grant Awards UA Researchers $2.34M for Marine Debris Prevention

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – University of Alabama researchers have been awarded a $2.34 million federal grant to help prevent and remove marine debris along the Gulf Coast as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Dr. Mark Cheng, professor in UA’s College of Engineering and lead principal investigator, and Michael…

Dimova Attends ‘Blue Carbon’ Workshop in China

Dr. Natasha Dimova, associate professor in The University of Alabama Department of Geological Sciences, recently spent three weeks in Qingdao, China, as part of the Frontiers Forum, an international effort to increase collaborative studies of coastal hydrogeochemistry. Ocean University of China hosted the workshop, which focused on “blue carbon,” the term for carbon captured by…

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