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Florida’s most valuable treasure map?
In an unprecedented four-year, $4.5 million effort, a team led by the USF College of Marine Science to map the seafloor off the west Florida coast will double the area surveyed to date—but even then it’s less than 10 percent of the goal.
May 24, 2019News
Team of Scientists Is Working to Develop a Marine Biodiversity Observation Network in the Americas, from Pole to Pole
This year’s workshop saw the first fruits of the inaugural workshop held during the 2018 AmeriGEOSS Week in Sao Sebastiao, Brazil, organized by the MBON Pole to Pole Americas, a project implemented by Enrique Montes (USFCMS) as a stepping stone of the global MBON.
May 17, 2019News
Shipwreck Hunter David Mearns Rivets Packed House at Mahaffey Theater
Mearns, an alumnus of the USF College of Marine Science (USFCMS, Class of ’86) and Director of Blue Water Recoveries, Limited, was in town from his home in England because he was awarded USF’s highest award, the President’s Global Leadership Award.
May 11, 2019News
Defying odds, seafloor mapping team discovers 3 uncharted wrecks in a single day
To build detailed images of the suspected wrecks, Hommeyer and Brizzolara returned to the location of each wreck, performing multiple passes from several angles to avoid any gaps in data caused by “shadows” from the overlying features.
May 6, 2019News
36 hours on a small boat: Bay to river carbonate system water measurements
Chris Moore, USFCMS student and employee of the USGS, recently completed river 4 of 4 in his dry season water sampling of Tampa Bay rivers as he embarks on a scientific census of sorts to describe the waters of Tampa Bay in relation to the threat of ocean acidification.
May 1, 2019Blogs and Perspectives, News
CMS Students Bring a Taste of Science to the Community
“Taste of Science” is a festival that takes place in cities around the country. Its mission is to give the community a sampling of science at locales they already frequent.
May 1, 2019News
Lessons from a new model: Shelled animals in some coastal areas may lose their ‘shirts’ to climate change faster than others
The oceans are warming, losing oxygen, and growing more acidic, and this study sheds light on how some coastal areas may have greater immunity to these changes than others.
April 29, 2019News
Crap! That’s a lot of Curry!
A team at the USF College of Marine Science was startled to find that a plant-borne virus dominates the viral community in human feces – and it could be a boon to water quality monitoring around the globe.
April 18, 2019News
Red Tide Forensics: So THAT’s What Happened
A team led by the USF College of Marine Science and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission unraveled the cocktail of conditions that led to last year’s epic red tide along Florida’s coast
April 18, 2019News
USF CMS welcomes Science Communication Strategist, Kristen Kusek
“I have the best job in the world,” said Kusek, who returns to the USF College of Marine Science 20 years after she graduated.
April 9, 2019News
Are things OK in Lake Okeechobee?
Lisa Krimsky recently spoke at USF College of Marine Science about Florida’s largest lake – Lake Okeechobee. Krimsky is a is a faculty member with the University of Florida IFAS Extension and the Florida Sea Grant Program.
April 5, 2019News
‘Red Tide Summit’ on Indian Rocks Beach addresses public concerns
Last year’s red tide, which started in 2017, was a particularly epic incident that killed fish and other precious marine life, along with much tourism-driven business along the west Florida coast.
April 1, 2019News