THIBODAUX, La. — ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ Department of Biological Sciences, ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ Football and Shell are excited to announce a $21,000 contribution to university coastal restoration projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shell committed $175 for every Colonel first down at Guidry Stadium this fall. The Colonels picked up 120 first downs during their five home games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShell is proud to sponsor ÐÓ°É´«Ã½\u2019s efforts to preserve and protect our working coast,\u201d said Rick Tallant, Shell\u2019s vice president of production for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. \u201cOver the past several years, this partnership to power coastal restoration has seen the University grow out tens of thousands of plants for restoration projects and our employees have logged hundreds of volunteer hours planting them along the coast.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The money will be used to support ÐÓ°É´«Ã½\u2019 existing coastal restoration work, including the propagation of mangroves at the ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ farm to plant on the coast, clean up efforts on beaches and bayous and the planting of native coastal vegetation. ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ Biology plays a hands-on role in coastal restoration by partnering with the ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ Geomatics program to use drones to monitor barrier islands and spread awareness of coastal issues in local schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are very appreciative of Shell\u2019s continued support as a valuable partner to ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ and the South Louisiana community,\u201d said Dr. Allyse Ferrara, distinguished service professor and Jerry Ledet Endowed Professor of Environmental Biology. \u201cThis money allows us to be flexible and responsive when working with community partners and volunteers.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shell has a long history of working with and alongside ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ to address environmental challenges. They have helped remove over 3,000 lbs of beach trash during the 2019 International Coastal Cleanup at Elmer\u2019s Island, paid for recycling bins to help keep campus beautiful and helped the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program plant more than 3,000 new trees in Plaquemines Parish, to name a few examples. In total, Shell has contributed more than $250,000 to ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ biology for environmental work over the years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For more information on the ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ Department of Biological Sciences visit www.nicholls.edu\/biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: <\/strong>Dec. 9, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n MEDIA CONTACT: <\/strong>Jacob Batte, Media Relations and Publications Coordinator, 985.448.4141 or jacob.batte@nicholls.edu THIBODAUX, La. — ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ Department of Biological Sciences, ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ Football and Shell are excited to announce a $21,000 contribution to university coastal restoration projects. Shell committed $175 for every Colonel first down at Guidry Stadium this fall. The Colonels picked up 120 first downs during their five home games. \u201cShell is proud to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,42,8,9,11,12],"tags":[51,127,126],"class_list":["post-8011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-science-technology","category-feature","category-in-the-news","category-news","category-nicholls","tag-allyse-ferrara","tag-coastal-restoration","tag-shell"],"yoast_head":"\n
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