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Seas-ing the Day!
The Niskin bottle and sediments crew were tasked with collecting samples for us to characterize our stations.
June 23, 2022Girls Camp
Dr. Frank Muller-Karger Receives 2021 William T. Pecora Award
Dr. Frank Muller-Karger, biological oceanography professor who leads the Institute for Remote Sensing at the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science, has been honored with the prestigious 2021 William T. Pecora Award for his extraordinary contributions and leadership using remote sensing to further our understanding of the ocean.
June 21, 2022Awards
Fish Banks: Following the Current-cy
On the Tuesday of our last week of camp, we spent most of the day engaged in an activity called Fish Banks.
June 20, 2022Girls Camp
Fish Ecology Blog
This is the sixth year that Michael Sipes, Science Mentor, had the pleasure of leading the Fish Ecology Lab and every year it’s a blast.
June 20, 2022Girls Camp
Can Areas of High Alkalinity Freshwater Discharge Provide Potential Refugia for Marine Calcifying Organisms?
Enjoy this launch blurb celebrating a publication related to ocean acidification along the Springs Coast in the northeast Gulf of Mexico whose lead author was recent CMS alum (M.S., Class of 2019), Kyle Amergian.
June 17, 2022News, Publication Highlights
Totally Jawesome! A Shark 101 and Shark Tagging Lab
These campers totally needed a bigger boat.. Sharks were on deck at OCG!
June 17, 2022Girls Camp
Humans Responsible for over 90% of World's Oil Slicks
A team of Chinese and U.S. scientists developed the first global map of chronic oil slicks in the ocean and found that more than 90% of them come from human sources, significantly more than previously reported.
June 16, 2022News
Behold the Barrier Island!
The final field trip of Oceanography Camp for Girls 2022 was our expedition to Caladesi Island.
June 15, 2022Girls Camp
DNA Detectives!
Campers became detectives for a day as they collected the DNA left behind by organisms in the water, known as environmental DNA (eDNA), to identify organisms from different habitats!
June 15, 2022Girls Camp
Waves of Inspiration
Waves of Inspiration - MEDIA ADVISORY. Leadership St. Pete® Class of 2022 to unveil major capital improvements at Clam Bayou Marine Education Center,
June 8, 2022Community Engagement, News
Bull’s Eye for JEDI on the high seas (er … a freshwater lake!)
Last year NSF launched a two-year pilot program called All-ABOARD, which stands for “Alliance-Building Offshore to Achieve Resilience and Diversity.” The goal of this program, hosted by Columbia University, is to advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) initiatives in STEM fields—especially the geosciences, which are one of the least racially diverse fields of science.
USF CMS student Natalia López Figueroa awarded NOAA Margaret A. Davidson Graduate Fellowship
CMS Ph.D. candidate Natalia López Figueroa was awarded a Margaret A. Davidson Graduate Fellowship administered by NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management.