Gulf Coast Community Design Studio

09/26/2025

Hope to see you there!

07/16/2024

Great Opportunity on the Gulf Coast! Please share with anyone who you think may be interested!

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06/17/2024

Volunteer Opportunity on the Coast! Please come support Cat Island and Gulf Island National Seashore.

🏖Are you up for a challenge? Join us and the Gulf Islands National Seashore team on July 13th at Cat Island for the ultimate volunteer opportunity. During this intensive event, volunteers will be collecting trash and recording data on what kind of trash is collected on a predetermined portion of the island.

What to expect:
-Volunteers will meet at the Ken Combs Pier boat launch at 8:30 a.m. and will return to boat launch by 1 p.m. Transportation to the island will be provided by Charter-for-hire boat captains. Boats will depart by 9 a.m.
- The boat ride is approximately 30 mins.
- Cleanup supplies and water will be provided by the event staff.
- Bring your own: refillable water bottle, closed toe shoes, sun protection (hat, sunglasses, sun screen), snacks, and necessary and/or emergency medications if applicable.

✅Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWfYZGMUtY4PloFbD69ZrmWpW_0ipo_9xqK7GVpx3fWugAEg/viewform

🤝With your help, the goal of this initiative is to clean all 68 miles of shoreline of Ship Island, Cat Island, Horn Island & Petite Bois over a 3 year period.

05/21/2024

We're thrilled to have Derek Duckworth join our team here at GCCDS; He joined us on January 16, 2024, and has hit the ground running with several of our projects in the works.

Derek is a Graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, with a degree in Geography - Sustainable and Economic Development. Derek comes to us with background experience in Urban and City Planning along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and other regions of the country. Derek is most excited to do outreach projects, whether it is working with faculty and students in Moss Point on the NOAA B-WET grant or community outreach with the NRCS grant. Derek's background in GIS, planning, and community engagement make him a perfect employee for our Community Planner role. Derek is always looking to broaden his horizons and help any community advocates within the extensive Gulf Coast region.

When Derek is not working to better his community through planning and advocacy, you may be able to find him on one of the local golf courses, dog parks, or beaches with his dogs Ozzie and Charley.

Help us in welcoming Derek to our GCCDS Team! If you have any outreach or advocacy projects that you think we may be able to assist with, please contact our office, us and Derek will be happy to help!

05/21/2024

WE ARE HIRING! We are searching for an Administrative Assistant to work with us in our GCCDS Gulfport Office. This position is a full-time, hourly position with benefits included. If you or someone you may know is interested and qualified for this position we strongly encourage them to apply. Come join our team and help make a difference in your community!

12/15/2023

We're pleased to welcome Georgia DeWitt to the GCCDS Staff. Georgia is a graduate of LSU's Landscape Architecture program with a keen interest in the connection between communities and the natural environments they inhabit, with an emphasis on issues relating to stormwater and resiliency.

Georgia comes to the Mississippi Gulf Coast with a background as a nursery and landscape professional. She was an Olmstead Scholar in 2023 and has been certified as a Landscape Horticulturist. She knows her plants!

Since joining the studio in August 2023, she's been volunteering on the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Phenology Trail and has been a great asset to the expanding work of the Studio.

Welcome!

AND STAY TUNED ... 2 more new staff introductions are on the horizon.

11/02/2023

GCCDS worked all week with Women In Construction on the construction of a deconstrucable structure that will one day serve as a Water Quality Testing Station for the Yellow Jacket Interpretive Trail.

Simply put ... the women are smart, innovative, and awesome ... and worked together so well through the whole process! We're so pleased with the way this project is coming together and for our continuing partnership with Women In Construction!

11/02/2023

GCCDS worked all week with Women In Construction on the construction of a deconstrucable structure that will one day serve as a Water Quality Testing Station for the Yellow Jacket Interpretive Trail.

Simply put ... the women are smart, innovative, and awesome ... and worked together so well through the whole process! We're so pleased with the way this project is coming together and for our continuing partnership with Women In Construction!

10/25/2023

MSU Architecture Students will be with us this Friday Morning Serial to join in the discussion on affordable housing (8am - 9am)

Their East Biloxi Neighborhoods work will be pinned-up around the studio for everyone to view and offer feedback.

Please join us!

10/07/2023

Building up the team for many exciting projects on the horizon. Looking for a licensed landscape architect, experienced planner and full-time adminitrative assistant. Please share! Gulf Coast Community Design Studio

09/29/2023

Happening now … all things East Biloxi.
Conversations with East Biloxi non-profit and community resilience leaders and MSU’s 4th year Landscape Architecture Studio.

East Biloxi Community Collaborative Back Bay Mission Steps MSU Dept. of Landscape Architecture Students, Alumni, Faculty and Staff Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant