Jennifer M. Buchanan, is education coordinator at the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Scope and Content Note:
She discusses the following topics in her interview: end users of research, commercial fishermen, commercial fishing, climate change, educating the public, commercial fishermen, real-time data sampling, stewardship of marine resources, wetlands, habitat loss, rising sea levels, Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi Sound, Gulf of Mexico, management practices, BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster, mitigation of habitat degradation, TEDs, BRDs, sea turtles, artificial reefs, oyster reefs, oysters, shrimp, mercury in marine environment, Bonnet Carré Spillway, freshwater diversion into Mississippi Sound, watersheds, Mississippi River and its watershed, Pascagoula River and its watershed, crabbing, fishing regulations, marine habitats of Gulf states, shifting islands, salt marsh, fetch, shoreline erosion, imported shrimp, aquaculture, costs of commercial fishing, advocacy for preserving and restoring natural environments, uplands, forests, land trusts, oral history, National Marine Educators Association, Southern Association of Marine Educators, cultural aspects of estuaries.