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CMS in the News 2025

The USF College of Marine Science news team is dedicated to sharing USF CMS's research to local, regional, and global audiences. View CMS in the news for 2025.

October 10, 2025CMS in the News

A midnight view of the Greenland Ice Sheet near Ilulissat in July 1991. The background shows the vast ice sheet, while the foreground fjord is choked with icebergs released by one of the world’s fastest-moving outlet glaciers. During the last ice age, this ice sheet was directly connected to the ice masses that covered most of Canada. Credit: Torbjörn Törnqvist

Never mind Antarctica: North American ice sheets caused dramatic rise in sea level after the last ice age

The new study calls into question whether glacial melt will be sufficient to collapse or even slow down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

October 9, 2025News

Volusia County resident Claire Venables looks through a box of family memorabilia that was damaged by flooding during Hurricane Milton. Her children’s birth certificates were destroyed and had to be replaced.Volusia County resident Claire Venables looks through a box of family memorabilia that was damaged by flooding during Hurricane Milton. Her children’s birth certificates were destroyed and had to be replaced.

Some Central Floridians still recovering one year out from Hurricane Milton

One year after striking land as a Category 3 storm, Hurricane Milton continues affecting lives in Central Florida.

October 7, 2025Florida Flood Hub

The new study suggests that ocean warming may not lead to the decline in nutrients and fisheries in the tropical Pacific predicted by earlier models. Credit: Jordan Robins/Ocean Image Bank.

How ancient plankton point to the resilience of ocean ecosystems

The researchers used a cutting-edge approach to predict future ocean conditions by examining the distant past through analyses of microscopic fossils.

October 2, 2025News

Rising Tides Newsletter Archives

Rising Tides Newsletter Archives

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October 1, 2025Rising Tides Newsletter

Rising Tides - October 2025

Rising Tides - October 2025

View some of the highlights in the Rising Tides Newsletter, October 2025 edition.

October 1, 2025Rising Tides Newsletter

CMS graduate student Angelique Rosa Marín conducts research at Puerto Rico’s Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Tiny shells with a big story: graduate student develops course exploring microscopic organisms

Angelique Rosa Marín designed a free course about foraminifera, which capture oceanic conditions as their shells grow and can be used to monitor the health of the ocean.

September 29, 2025Blogs and Perspectives

Chuanmin Hu, a Distinguished University Professor at the USF College of Marine Science, was elected as an AGU Fellow for his fundamental and transformative contributions in optical oceanography and satellite remote sensing.

Chuanmin Hu was elected as an AGU Fellow

Chuanmin Hu takes optical measurements of oil on water in a field experiment. Image courtesy of Chuanmin Hu.

September 24, 2025Awards, News

The 2025 Faculty seminar featured speakers from all disciplines of the college.

Faculty seminar puts world-class research into focus

The seminar occurs annually and features the research of the college’s faculty.

September 3, 2025Blogs and Perspectives

Layne Legget, Steve Murawski, and AJ Gross prepare to install a barnacle rack in Tampa Bay.

USF scientists build on Deepwater Horizon research with new project targeting pollutants in Tampa Bay and beyond

The Tampa Bay Surveillance project examines contaminants in Florida’s largest estuary, with the goal of identifying sources of contamination and helping prevent pollution.

September 2, 2025News

Rising Tides - August 2025

Rising Tides - August 2025

View some of the highlights in the Rising Tides Newsletter, August 2025 edition.

August 29, 2025Rising Tides Newsletter

Through crowdsourced bathymetry, scientists tap into local boating communities to gather data about water depths. Credit: Sarah Grasty

Local boaters help scientists map the seafloor

An initiative called Crowd the Bay supports more detailed seafloor maps for Tampa Bay and serves as a blueprint for augmenting nautical charts across Florida, the nation, and beyond.

August 26, 2025News

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