Multiple-University Extension Program Addresses Postdisaster Oil Spill Needs Through Private Funding Partnership

Authors

Stephen H. Sempier, University of Mississippi
D. LaDon Swann, Auburn University
Larissa Graham, Auburn University
Christine Hale, Texas A&M University
Emily S. Maung-Douglass, Louisiana State University
Monica Wilson, University of Florida
Matthew Bethel, Louisiana State University
Pamela T. Plotkin, Texas A&M University
Martin B. Main, University of Florida

Volume

56

Issue

4

DOI

10.34068/joe.56.04.19

Abstract

In response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) was formed to answer oil spill–related scientific questions. However, peer-reviewed scientific discoveries were not reaching people whose livelihoods depended on a healthy Gulf of Mexico. GoMRI and the four Gulf of Mexico Sea Grant programs partnered to develop a regional Extension program with a team of multidisciplinary specialists and a regional manager embedded within the Sea Grant programs. The team answered oil spill science questions from target audiences. The program leaders also identified the value of adding a regional Extension communicator to enhance their Extension products.

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Recommended Citation

Sempier, S. H., Swann, D. L., Graham, L., Hale, C., Maung-Douglass, E. S., Wilson, M., Bethel, M., Plotkin, P. T., & Main, M. B. (2018). Multiple-University Extension Program Addresses Postdisaster Oil Spill Needs Through Private Funding Partnership. The Journal of Extension, 56(4), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.56.04.19