Almost a third of the Atlantic Coast’s tidal salt marshes are located in Georgia’s Lower Coastal Plain, as are thousands of acres of rare tidal freshwater marshes. Immortalized in poet Sidney Lanier’s poem “The Marshes of Glynn,” these wide expanses of salt marsh are the most visible physical feature along Georgia’s 100-mile-long coast. The salt marshes stretch in a band four to six miles wide between the mainland and coastal barrier islands.

Transgenic (genetically modified) yellow poplar trees grow in the laboratory of geneticist Richard Meagher at the University of Georgia. Researchers at UGA engineered a strain of yellow poplar capable of growing in soil contaminated with mercury and converting the metal into a less harmful form. The process of using plants to remove toxins from the environment is called phytoremediation. Photograph by Sarah E. McKee, New Georgia Encyclopedia The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print.

Historians of the Civil War (1861-65) have only recently begun serious study of Unionists, an often overlooked group of white southerners who played a substantial part in sowing discontent and undermining the Confederate war effort. Unionists found themselves living in a new nation, the Confederacy, to which they chose not to give their allegiance. While their numbers in Georgia (or in any other southern state) are uncertain, much about Unionist presence and activity in the state has come to light in recent years.

The fourth USS Savannah (CL-42) engaged in Atlantic and Meditteranean operations during World War II (1941-45), most notably Operation Torch, the allied invasion of North Africa. Photograph by Naval History and Heritage Command The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder.

A researcher at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, based at Emory University in Atlanta, works in the Biomarkers Core laboratory. The biomedical research conducted at the center helps to provide treatment and prevention strategies for human illnesses. Courtesy of Yerkes National Primate Research Center The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print.