Plants

The Day of the…Sargassum Weed?

In the classic 1951 sci-fi novel The Day of the Triffids, made into a 1962 film, a strange meteor shower renders everyone who watches it...

Salt Marsh Grass is One Tough Plant

The great flats of salt marshes, green in summer, golden in fall, are an impressive feature of the Georgia coast. Two-thirds to...

Marshes of Glynn

Not many landscapes have had a famous poem dedicated to them. One such, of course, are the Golden Isles of the Georgia coast: sea islands...

Mossy Oaks

As I wrote in 'Marsh Mud and Mummichogs', the best-loved coastal tree is the live oak, Quercus virginiana. The low spreading branches,...

Microscopic algae in coastal food webs

Cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, is the most visible plant in Georgia salt marsh estuaries. Scientists initially thought that decaying...

ABOUT ME

The book's author, Evelyn Brown Sherr (here with Max the Aussie In Oregon) has had a life-long fascination with the natural world. Born in Dublin, GA, she grew up on the Atlantic coast of Florida. After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta, she earned a PhD in zoology with a focus on ocean ecology at Duke University In Durham, NC. She was a research scientist at the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island from 1974 to 1990.