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Dr. Angela Lodge – Angie --facilitated the visit to Clam Bayou, home base for the USF CMS Oceanography Camp for Girls. The visit, held November 5, 2019, was featured as part of the US State Department’s “Hidden No More” Women in STEM initiative.

Global US Department of State’s Women in STEM Program Visits Oceanography Camp for Girls (OCG)

Eight women leaders from Argentina to Vietnam visited Clam Bayou and the USF CMS for a taste of the OCG experience meant to inspire new programming around the world.

November 6, 2019News

Dr. Christina Simoniello guides young students through an activity at the GCOOS booth during the 2017 St. Pete Science Festival.

A Q&A with CMS Alum, Dr. Chris Simoniello

Christina Simoniello is the 2019 first place winner of the Gulf Guardian Award in the Individual category for her work with the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS).

November 4, 2019News

Dr. David Naar explains some related geological concepts to the estuaries honors class.

CMS Faculty Teach USF Honors Undergraduates About Estuaries in the Class and at Sea

Nineteen undergraduate students from the Honors College at USF are learning about estuaries and coastal processes in a course newly offered by faculty and graduate students of the USF College of Marine Science (CMS) in the classroom and at sea.

October 31, 2019News

Bill Hogarth, Masanori Miyahara, Steve Murawski and Hideki Nakano. Dr. Miyahara presented the current status of Japanese fisheries as he seeks collaboration from scientists in foreign countries who have prior experience with declining fish stocks.

President of Japan Fisheries Research Agency Seeks International Collaboration to Address Declining Japanese Fish Stocks

Japanese fisheries saw a meteoric rise in fish catch after World War II, due to improved technologies, before the productivity peaked in the 1980’s and sharply declined.

October 25, 2019News

Rising Tides Newsletter, October 2019 edition.

Rising Tides Newsletter - October 2019

View some of the highlights in the Rising Tides Newsletter, October 2019 edition.

October 15, 2019Rising Tides Newsletter

Wind farms like this one pictured in the Irish Sea might make their way to the U.S. through the efforts of Orsted, a company that Dr. Shane Dunn has recently worked with.

A Q&A with CMS Alum, Dr. Shane Dunn

Operating as a geophysical consultant out of St. Petersburg, Dunn travels the world for some of the biggest, most technical projects on the planet.

September 25, 2019Blogs and Perspectives

Chao Liu, lead author on the paper, received a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship allowing him to study global ocean vertical salt transport using a state-of-the-art ocean synthesis product.

Deeper Ocean Observations Needed to Accurately Assess Earth’s Climatic Changes

Researchers at the USF College of Marine Science (CMS), along with colleagues from Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), NASA Headquarters, Cambridge Climate Institute, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, recently published a paper in Nature Communications emphasizing the importance of the deep ocean’s contributions to the upper ocean.

September 25, 2019News

Jacqueline Dixon, Dean, USF College of Marine Science

A Brief from Dean Dixon

Greetings from the College of Marine Science! We’re excited to restart our newly designed newsletter with this issue, and hope you enjoy it.

September 20, 2019Newsletter Articles

Savannah Hartman at the Hawaiian Convention Center

Ocean Obs ’19: Poster session!

Hundreds of posters. Hundreds of people.

September 20, 2019Blogs and Perspectives

The opening slide welcoming all attendees to the Ocean Obs '19 conference was accompanied by a soothing ukele tune. Perfect mood music!

Ocean Obs ’19 decadal conference opens in Honolulu

Here on the island of O’ahu, the College of Marine Science’s Institute of Marine Remote Sensing (IMaRS) lab members are attending one of the most important conferences held for ocean users.

September 19, 2019Blogs and Perspectives

Week One: Painting with Bacteria! - “Who are you?” activity.

Girls Go Gaga Over Science

This blog whisks you through my summer doing marine science with Girls Inc—and you don’t even have to get your feet wet!

September 18, 2019Blogs and Perspectives, Community Engagement

A discrete sampler being lowered a couple feet below the water's surface to collect microplastics. Photo Credit: Kinsley McEachern

New Study Reveals Four Billion Particles of Microplastics in Tampa Bay Waters

A new study from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg and Eckerd College estimates the waters of Tampa Bay contain four billion particles of microplastics, raising new questions about the impact of pollution on marine life in this vital ecosystem.

September 12, 2019News

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