From protecting coral reefs and restoring watersheds to advancing aquaculture and strengthening coastal resilience, the University of Guam Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant (UOG CIS & Sea Grant) is calling on researchers to turn innovative ideas into solutions for the Pacific.
Speaking to students at the University of Guam School of Engineering in a talk titled “Circular Economy 101: Advancing Circularity in Guam,” Austin Shelton, Ph.D., director of the UOG Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant, argued that Guam does not have to invent a circular economy, only return to one, and that the engineers of tomorrow will help rebuild it.
When two super typhoons hit Guam this year, University of Guam undergraduate Segundo Garrido was already out in the field counting insects. His research now provides the island’s first parasitoid inventory in about 60 years and earned him recognition in the undergraduate poster presentation category for life sciences/environmental sciences at the 2026 SACNAS Annual Conference in Long Beach, California.
The University of Guam Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant (UOG CIS & Sea Grant) is expanding its commitment to sustainable fisheries and community education with the establishment of a new Sustainable Fisheries Education Fellowship, naming Kevin Rivera as its inaugural fellow.
The University of Guam continued its ongoing award streak at the SACNAS Annual Conference with three students and one faculty mentor taking top honors at the nationaly STEM assembly.
Over six-hundred college and university students from all over the country presented their research over the course of the two-day judging period and of them, three UOG students were presented with disguised recognition awards.
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