News Releases

Minnesota Sea Grant's recent news releases, media advisories, and other newsworthy announcements are below. For more information, please contact MNSG Communications Manager Marie Thoms.

DULUTH, Minn. — The University of Minnesota Sea Grant Program welcomes Alexander Frie as the new research and fellowship coordinator effective November 8, 2021. MNSG and Sea Grant programs nationwide invest a large part of their federal and university funding in research and education competitions that are directly managed by a research coordinator.

DULUTH, Minn. — Are you looking for local, fresh fish caught and raised by producers in the Great Lakes region?

DULUTH, Minn. — Minnesota Sea Grant seeks an Aquaculture Extension Associate (AEA) to help coordinate current aquaculture projects that address the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of the aquaculture industry in the Great Lakes region. 

DULUTH, Minn. — The University of Minnesota Sea Grant program will begin a project in September 2021 to develop producer-scale methods for raising Yellow Perch fish from egg to market size using a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS).

DULUTH, Minn. — The University of Minnesota Sea Grant Program welcomes Kelsey Prihoda as the new Sea Grant Great Lakes Transportation Extension Educator.

DULUTH, Minn. — The University of Minnesota Sea Grant Program and Water Resources Center welcome Maggie Karschnia as their new joint extension educator for urban stormwater, community resiliency, and watershed education in Minnesota. 

ST. PAUL and DULUTH, Minn. — The University of Minnesota Sea Grant program announces that the 2022 Minnesota finalist for the National Sea Grant John A. Knauss Policy Fellowship is University of Minnesota graduate student Naomi Blinick.

DULUTH, Minn. — Minnesota Sea Grant (MNSG) seeks a full-time Research Program Coordinator (RC) to develop, oversee, and manage MNSG’s research and graduate fellowship programs and to develop their own research program in areas relevant to the mission of MNSG.

DULUTH, Minn. — A new paper in the May 11, 2021 online issue of Nature Communications demonstrates why keeping local lakes and other waterbodies clean produces cost-effective benefits locally and globally.

DULUTH, Minn. — A new three-year, $250,000 project led by the University of Minnesota Sea Grant program seeks to determine the potential for a sustainable food-fish aquaculture industry in Minnesota.