Cebrian assumes leaders role at NGI

STARKVILLE, Miss. - A senior marine scientist with research experience in coastal ecosystems and human impact on coastlines has been named associate director of Mississippi State University’s Northern Gulf Institute (NGI). Just Cebrian, a former senior marine scientist with the Dauphin Island (Ala.) Sea Lab, which is an NGI research partner, will serve as the lead scientist for a group of MSU employees supporting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). He also will work as an MSU research professor. NCEI hosts and provides public access to one of the world’s most significant archives for environmental data. NGI operates under the umbrella of MSU’s Office of Research and Economic Development and is a NOAA Cooperative Institute, a partnership of six academic institutions, and NOAA, to address national strategic research and education goals. MSU leads this collaboration, partnering with the universities of Southern Mississippi and Alabama-Huntsville; Louisiana State and Florida State; Dauphin Island Sea Lab; and NOAA scientists at various labs and operational centers in the Gulf of Mexico region. (Source: Mississippi State 11/19/18)