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The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography was founded in 1968
when Robert C. Roebling donated his Modena Plantation on the northern tip of
Skidaway Island near Savannah to the State of Georgia for the establishment
of a marine research institution. The Institute staff today numbers around
eighty, including scientists with terminal degrees in a wide variety of
fields.
The research focus at Skidaway Institute includes not only the deep ocean
but also the continental shelves and estuaries, two regions where humans
interact most intimately with the sea. The Institute maintains several
unique facilities for enhancing marine research and is located on the bank
of the Skidaway River, a pristine saltwater, tidally-dominated channel with
access to a diverse range of estuarine and coastal habitats. Skidaway Institute
offers resident and visiting scientists a stand-alone research campus,
and the resources to accomplish a great variety of different types of research. |
Research labs, listed below, occupy approximately 60,000 sq ft. on the
main campus.
An additional 12,000 sq ft. of
seawater and freshwater culture/experimental facilities are also maintained.
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| SkIO's largest research vessel, the 92 ft. R/V
Savannah, is unique in
that she was in significant part designed by the scientists who use her for
coastal research, so she is ideally suited to the prevailing wave height and
period of the South Atlantic Bight. The R/V Savannah is a member of the University National
Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) fleet and is ideal for oceanographic studies in estuarine and
continental shelf waters throughout the southeastern U.S. Atlantic and Gulf
coasts. The institute also has several small vessels used primarily for
conducting research in local estuaries. |
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SkIO has played a lead role in the design, installation and maintenance of
power, communications and instrument systems deployed at the offshore platforms
for the South Atlantic Bight Synoptic Offshore Observational Network (SABSOON)
coastal ocean observing system. Hourly updated observations are posted on the
project web site and sent to the National Weather Service for inclusion in regional marine
forecasting models. SABSOON has been formally incorporated into the Southeast
Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System (SEA-COOS) which is being developed as a
regional coastal ocean observing system that is envisaged as a component within
the national Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS).
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The largest marine sciences library collection in
Georgia,
is housed on SkIO's campus with 6100 sq ft under roof containing holdings of 4000 book volumes and 17,000
serial volumes, over 110 journals, access to more than 300 databases and
full-text resources available through the state's GALILEO internet network. |
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Ten small apartments and cottages accommodate more than 150 visitors per
year, with individual occupancies ranging from days to months. Visitors
include students, faculty and staff from other University of Georgia System
campuses and from other US research and educational institutions, as well as
international students and faculty.
SkIO has received an NSF grant to
build a 16-bed housing unit designed to support field research courses when
needed, primarily during the summer, while being flexible enough to
accommodate individuals and smaller groups for the remainder of the year.
The new housing is intended to be part of a larger construction effort at
the Institute, in order to provide much-needed classrooms, teaching and
research laboratories for visitors and students. More information about
housing at SkIO is available at
http://www.skio.peachnet.edu/local/bo/housingpolicy.php
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| Modern gigabit campus LAN servicing SkIO, and other USG labs
(University of Georgia, Georgia Southern and Georgia Institute of Technology)
and federal partners (NOAA) and their faculty/staff in direct support of
research, academic and administrative projects.
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The Graphics Department at
Skidaway Institute offers a variety of visual arts services including print
production, figure development, slide and flatbed scanning, digital
photography, and color printing all archived for easy retrieval and
updating.
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Providing state of the art engineering services, the
engineering staff offers over 30 years of accumulative experience in
electrical and mechanical engineering and project development. From concept
to deployment, services provided include the systems level and detail level
design, fabrication, testing, installation, and maintenance of small to
large scale projects. |
| In keeping with the self-sustaining necessities of early
Institute days when the only access was by boat, SkIO remains remarkably
self-sufficient by maintaining the physical plant and grounds with in-house
machine, carpentry, plumbing and electrical shops. |
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