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Shannon Burns prepares for field work aboard the R/V Endeavor.

Graduate Student Sets Sail on the R/V Endeavor out of Bermuda

Scientists involved in the project will combine seasonally resolved observations of particulate, dissolved, colloidal, soluble, and ligand-bound iron, and corresponding physical, chemical and biological data from the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Station (BATS) program, with state-of-the-art biogeochemical modeling.

March 12, 2019News

Gravity corer on deck of the drilling platform separated from Subglacial Lake Mercer by a kilometer of ice. Photo Credit: Kathy Kasic, SALSA

A kilometer of Antarctic ice hides lake and possible clues to the future of our warming planet

At 15 meters deep, Mercer is the deepest subglacial lake to have been directly sampled, building on the accomplishments of the WISSARD expedition to Lake Whillans, a subglacial lake downstream of Mercer with an average depth of about 2 meters at the time of sampling.

March 8, 2019News

Subglacial Antarctic Lake Scientific Access team members Molly Patterson, Al Gagnon, and Ryan Venturelli (left to right) working with the gravity corer. Photo Credit: Kathy Kasic

Adventure to Antarctica

with USFCMS Student Ryan Venturelli

March 8, 2019Blogs and Perspectives

he Research Vessel Weatherbird II docked at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science. By Seán Kinane (21 April 2016)

USF scientist talks about the health of the Gulf of Mexico 9 years after the BP oil disaster

In April of 2010 BP’s Deepwater Horizon exploded and nearly 5 million barrels of oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico over several weeks; the Gulf ecosystem was damaged and researchers are trying to figure out how badly.

March 6, 2019News

Zonal Jets: Phenomenology, Genesis, and Physics. Choosing the book’s cover image was a story of sweet serendipity, Galperin said. A book contributor, Yakov Afanasyev from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, is also an amateur painter who drew inspiration from recent NASA images (the Juno mission) to craft this ethereal painting of Jupiter’s weather layer.

Zonal Jets: the Boundless Capillaries of the Sea

USF professor Boris Galperin leads global effort to publish the first comprehensive book on zonal jets, complex features of atmospheric and ocean circulation that evaded discovery in the ocean for decades.

February 28, 2019News

University of South Florida graduate student Meaghan Faletti carefully dissects the information-rich eye lens from a pinfish. Photo Credit: Meaghan Faletti

Diving into a Fish-Eat-Forage-Fish World

As scuba divers, life beneath the waves is peaceful as we move weightlessly through the water column in relative quiet aside from the air bubbling from our regulators, the whirl of distant boat propellers and the snap, crackle and pop of parrotfish munching on the reef.

February 27, 2019News

Seven USF CMS graduate students just wrapped up their second day at the 2019 Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Attendees include left to right: Jon Sharp, Ellie Hudson-Heck, Shannon Burns, Adrienne Hollister, Katelyn Schockman, Kate Dubickas, and Ben Ross. Photo courtesy of: Kate Dubickas

Grad students wrap up second day at the 2019 ASLO conference in Puerto Rico

Six fellow graduate students and I just wrapped up our second day at the 2019 Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) conference here in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

February 27, 2019Blogs and Perspectives

This image shows oil appearance frequency from all cloud-free images (including those without sun glint) in 2005–2016. It shows a cumulative area of 1888 km2 near the Taylor Energy Platform. (Figure 6 in the study, used with permission of Chuanmin Hu)

Study Estimates Larger-than-Expected Oil Footprint Near the Damaged Taylor Energy Platform

Researchers analyzed remote sensing imagery to assess oil slicks near the Taylor Energy platform, which was damaged by Hurricane Ivan in September 2004, and determined how environmental conditions affected the slicks’ distributions.

February 26, 2019News

Aerial drone photo of the neighborhood in Redington Beach. Some scientific forecasts of rising seal levels project that a 2-foot rise would leave parts of the town underwater by 2100. But there are much more pessimistic forecasts out there. Photo Credit: Luis Santana | Times.

Climate change is here. Will Tampa Bay finally get ready?

Our coastal region must prepare for the threats of climate change. Enter the Tampa Bay Regional Resiliency Coalition. But what can local governments do when the world’s governments haven’t done enough?

February 25, 2019News

Zooplankton. Photo Credit: Matt Wilson/Jay Clark, NOAA NMFS AFSC Wikimedia

The Ocean Is Running Out of Breath, Scientists Warn

idespread and sometimes drastic marine oxygen declines are stressing sensitive species—a trend that will continue with climate change.

February 25, 2019News

Members of the Seminole High School ‘A team’ review their answers during a break in the action of the Round Robin morning session at the 2019 Spoonbill Bowl.

2019 marks 15 years of the Spoonbill Bowl

On Saturday, February 16th, 2019, eleven high schools from across west central Florida fielded teams to compete against each other in a Round Robin style competition during the morning portion of the tournament followed by a playoff style competition in the afternoon.

February 20, 2019Community Engagement

(Left to right) Don Chambers, USF College of Marine Science, Rebecca Zarger, USF, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman; Joshua Johnson, 1A. Photo Credit: Megan Holmes

The story behind 1A’s live broadcast: A showcase of what makes St. Pete great

On Monday, the University of South Florida St. Petersburg hosted a live recording of one of the most popular shows circulated by NPR, WAMU’s 1A, whose name pays homage to the First Amendment.

February 14, 2019News

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