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Publisher/Editor - Amy Thurman amy@southerntidesmagazine.com Editorial Assistant - Elizabeth Wheeless info@southerntidesmagazine.com The Bitter End Columnist - Captain J. Gary "Gator" Hill jgaryhill@gmail.com Around the Reef Columnist - Michelle Riley michelle.riley@noaa.gov Ebb & Flow Columnist - Trey Leggett info@southerntidesmagazine.com Consulting Naturalist - John "Crawfish" Crawford crawfi sh@uga.edu Contributing Writer - Erin Weeks weekse@dnr.sc.gov 5 Editor's Note 5 5 6 Community Updates 6 6 9 Ebb & Flow 9 9 11 Around the Reef 11 1 13 Did You Know? 13 1

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G Grouper with Aioli, & Spinach 1 14 Rollin' on the River 14 R

Savannah Bar Pilots

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Scientist Alicia Reigel, marine biologist from Louisiana State University, is working on her multi-year assessment of microbial communities that live with corals in Gray's Reef. She is examing the roles these tiny organisms play and how they help their coral hosts survive in changing ocean conditions. Photo by Marybeth Head/NOAA