10/06/2026
🦪🌊Faculty Highlight🌊🦪:
Meet Caitlyn Mayer, adjunct faculty teaching our applied mariculture course. This course is an experiential learning course that focuses on how to take science and create a sustainable solution in your community. Students learn maritime skills, a background in aquaculture, the history of mariculture and working water fronts in SC, how to create an oyster/clam farm, and then they work on several farms around the state to gain experience. Throughout the semester they have a group project where they create a real mariculture based solution to an address a need in SC communities, that focuses on the pillars of sustainability.
About Caitlyn Mayer: Her passions include sustainable food systems, specifically a background in oyster farming, sustainable business/solutions, eco-tourism, mindfulness, yoga, geology, geotourism. She aims to integrate mindfulness and sustainability in the sense of pillars in all of her courses, and show how everything is connected. Her past research with students has been oyster related, but her graduate research was water quality modeling through remote sensing. Some fun facts are she owns and manages an airbnb, she’s a yoga instructor, realtor, teaches field courses in costa rica on sustainable business and ecotourism and new mexico in field geology. She loves surfing, to travel, family time and chickens and tacos 🌮🌮!!!!
So excited and grateful to have Caitlyn Mayer as a member of our CLAM-ily and faculty here!
