Sara Carney (STJR ’16) Receives College of Geosciences Award
STJR Graduate and Communications Manager for Texas Sea Grant, Sara Carney was recently awarded a 2022 College of Geosciences Exemplary Service Award. The award recognizes faculty and staff of the College of Geosciences who have made exemplary contributions to the teaching, research, and service missions of the college beyond the normal expectations of their positions.
Carney has served as communications manager for the Texas Sea Grant College Program at Texas A&M University for the past three and a half years. There, she oversees various digital and print communications efforts for the program, including Texas Shores magazine.
Notably, she helped manage the creation of and wrote content for Texas Sea Grant’s exhibit in the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, “Texas Sea Grant: 50 Years of Science and Stewardship.” The three thousand square-foot exhibit encompassed the 50-year history of Texas Sea Grant as well as the natural resources of Texas coast (and how to protect them). While displayed from June 2021 to July 2022, the exhibit was visited by 68,915 patrons from all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
“I am truly honored and humbled to receive this recognition,” Carney said. “It was a lovely way to bookend the closing of the Texas Sea Grant exhibit. I especially want to thank my coworkers, our director, and the museum designers, who all made it possible to realize new and exciting communications efforts for Texas Sea Grant.”
Carney received an MS in science and technology journalism (STJR) in 2016. As an undergraduate, she had majored in biomedical sciences and wildlife & fisheries sciences. Her work in the STJR program included writing a thesis titled “The Cosmos and the Earth: Content and Quality of Environmental Risk Communication in Cosmos (1980) and Cosmos (2014).”
Texas Sea Grant was previously administratively housed in the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M. The program has since moved to the Division of Research.