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Time to Submit Your Book Recommendations
All faculty, students, and staff--now is the time to submit your recommendations for books to be purchased to support your teaching, research, and learning. Please include as much information as possible--author, title, date, publisher, etc. and indicate your preference for print or e-books. Please note there are some publisher restrictions with e-books including the number of pages you can download (usually 60 pages or less). If this will impede your use of the book, then be sure to indicate you are requesting print. We need your recommendations asap. Print books ordered for COA are housed at Gunter Library at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. Please email to: guntergcrl@usm.edu
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Libraries, archives, and museums are repositories of intellectual property. Each of these institutions has a slightly different purpose, but all three deal with the exchange of information. Copyright laws are the mechanisms that regulate intellectual property and strive to create a balance to provide rights for the authors of created works and access of these works by the public. Copyright law strives to maintain the balance of these two opposing objectives. Society is what gave form to the theories that helped formulate copyright law. Each of the four theories had some influence in all countries. The theories affecting copyright include fairness, personality, welfare, and culture. (Fisher, 2020) Fisher, William (2020) Theories of Intellectual Property (BC)
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Hannah Parker – Kim de Mutsert
David Truhe – Eric Powell
Ethan Mocny – Eric Powell
Vivian Tidd – Songjie He
Alexandria (Lizzie) Hancock – Wei Wu
Michael Zarske – Robert Leaf
| | Congratulations Travel Award Winners! | | |
Ron Schmied Award recipient Alyssa Pagel to Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Conference in Cartegena, Columbia.
Travel Award recipients, Hailee Nigro, Micayla Cochran, Caitlin Young to Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation Conference in Richmond, VA.
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Devin Bellman – Administrative Coordinator Marine Education Center
Mary Manning – Asst Procurement Coordinator – GCRL Procurement
Ebony McKee – Aquaculture Technician I - TCMAC
| | Part biography, part memoir, and part scientific adventure, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a wondrous fable about how to persevere in a world where chaos will always prevail. Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian. We will pick a day after the end of the Fall semester in December to have a brown bag discussion about the book. | | Eaglet Food Pantry Celebrates 3rd Anniversary | On September 13, 2022, Gunter Library established its Eaglet Food Pantry for the GCRL community. Over the three years, the pantry has added vegetarian and gluten free selections. In 2023 it added a personal care/hygiene section. A recent generous donation of a refrigerator will allow the pantry to include frozen and refrigerated foods. The Eaglet Pantry is available during library open hours. | | Gunter Library is a collection point for teddy bears. Please put your donation in the bin by the service desk. | | Keep up to date with USM’s academic calendar | |
- Hattiesburg Outreach Zoo Presentation at Edgewater Mall, Thursday, August 21, 10am-noon (free)
- After Katrina: A Listening Session for the MS Gulf Coast at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art (Biloxi) Thursday, August 28 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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- Eric Woods & The Way Down music at Friday at the Fort 499 Front Beach Dr, Ocean Springs Friday, August 29. 6pm–9pm (free, bring a blanket or lawn chairs)
- Downtown OS Art Walk, Saturday, August 30, 10am-4pm (free)
- Labor Day, Monday, September 1, (Gunter Library closed, USM holiday)
- Nature Discovery Tours at Fontainebleau Trail, Ocean Springs, MS. Saturday, September 6, 9:00am – 10:00am (free)
- GCRL Community Day, Saturday, October 18, 10am-2pm (free) SAVE the DATE
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Save the Date
Monday, August 25th - 6 pm to 7 pm
Caylor 104
Sponsored by Mississippi Alabama Sea Grant Consortium
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Collateral Crustaceans: Measuring Bycatch Mortality in Gulf Crab Traps
Presenter:
Micayla Cochran
Division of Coastal Sciences Graduate Research Assistant 🦀
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
Blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) support a culturally and economically valuable commercial fishery in the Gulf of Mexico. Most states require the release of undersized and ovigerous blue crabs, yet mortality of these discarded crabs is an understudied and poorly estimated component of total mortality and represents a major data gap hindering effective management. The aim of this project is to quantify discard mortality of undersized and ovigerous crabs using bycatch surveys. Bycatch surveys have been conducted monthly aboard commercial crabbing boats in three locations across the Lake Pontchartrain-Mississippi Sound coastal system in Louisiana and Mississippi. Crabs were sexed and measured and the likelihood of mortality of a subset of crabs was estimated with a reflex action mortality predictor (RAMP) assessment. Throughout the project, conversations aboard commercial crabbing vessels serve as informal education sessions, which fosters trust with fishermen while empowering the research team to better understand the most pressing issues facing the fishery. The outcomes of this project will be used in the creation of crabber “best practices” and whiteboard videos to be shared through formal outreach avenues.
| | "Like" the GCRL Science Cafe Facebook page for more information about upcoming Science Cafe events. | | If you missed any of our virtual GCRL Science Cafes visit our Marine Education Center’s (MEC) Facebook page at the link below. | | |
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
Joyce Shaw, Librarian & Professor
Megan Le, Library Manager
Brennan Collins, Library Assistant
Marjie Williams, Library Assistant
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