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![Graphic abstract. Photo Credit: Makenzie Kerr](/marine-science/news/images/makenzie-kerr-graphic-abstract-usf-college-of-marine-science-490x327.png)
A Scavenger Egg Hunt in the Gulf of Mexico
And a fun online activity for kids!
May 6, 2020Blogs and Perspectives
![Sand and seaweed beds in the Bahamas. Image courtesy Serge Andrefouet, University of South Florida.](/marine-science/news/images/ocean-sand-bahamas-490x327.jpg)
Public’s Favorite Earth Image Processed at USF
Dr. Serge Andrefouet was visiting USF when he processed an image that just keeps on winning.
April 30, 2020Blogs and Perspectives
![Figure 1. High frequency radars (HFR) are land-based systems that measure the speed and direction of ocean surface currents in near real-time. Pictured above is the newly deployed HFR receive antenna, location and measured data coverage.](/marine-science/news/images/usf-deploys-new-hfr-in-marathon-490x327.png)
USF Leads Installation of New High Frequency Radar (HFR) near Marathon, Florida
A new High Frequency Radar (HFR) was installed near Marathon, Florida to study the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current System by the University of South Florida’s Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System (USF COMPS), in cooperation with Rutgers University and the University of Miami.
April 13, 2020Blogs and Perspectives
![2020 Spoonbill Bowl](/marine-science/news/images/gainesville-2020-spoonbowl-winners-490x327.jpg)
And that’s a wrap! The 2020 Spoonbill Bowl was a fun and exciting event, especially for our first-place winners, Gainesville 4H!
This year’s Spoonbill Bowl was one for the books! With 17 teams competing from 13 different high schools on Florida’s west coast, the event went incredibly smoothly and efficiently.
February 18, 2020Blogs and Perspectives
![CMS personnel attend the Blackthorn Memorial](/marine-science/news/images/blackthorn-490x327.jpg)
CMS Attends Historic Blackthorn Memorial
Scientists Dr. Mark Luther and graduate student Garrett Miller from the USF CMS joined a commemorative ceremony on January 28, 2020 held at the memorial site about two miles north of the collision site.
February 6, 2020Blogs and Perspectives
![Amplified Voices](/marine-science/news/images/amplified-voices-490x327.jpg)
Amplified Voices: How identity shapes our scientific experience
Diverse work environments benefit scientific progress and the well-being of individual researchers - yet the geosciences are still lagging behind. Together with her contributors, Michelle Guitard reports on the current situation in the US, and suggests some ways in which underrepresented voices can be amplified.
February 5, 2020Blogs and Perspectives
![Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. Image Credit: NASA/James Yungel](/marine-science/news/images/thwaites-glacier-in-west-antarctica-490x327.jpg)
USF scientist helps measure a rapidly melting glacier
Dr. Alastair Graham, departed on the US icebreaker Nathanial Palmer for the Amundsen Sea, home to the so-called “Doomsday Glacier” called the Thwaites Glacier.
February 4, 2020Blogs and Perspectives
![All present artists that created work for the exhibit and the event coordinators.](/marine-science/news/images/all-artists-and-coordinators-490x327.jpg)
Think Macro Act Micro
How marine science dripped onto the artist’s canvas.
January 23, 2020Blogs and Perspectives, Community Engagement
![Ph.D. student Natalia Lopez, dicussing her undergraduate research using stable isotopes to predict the impacts of sea level rise in a natural reserve in Puerto Rico.](/marine-science/news/images/natalia-lopez-talking-about-her-undergraduate-research-predict-the-impacts-of-sea-level-rise-490x327.jpg)
Great American Teach In – Largo High School
During the day of the event Natalia Lopez was going to talk to only one group, but both the students and teachers asked if Natalia Lopez could stay longer to ask more questions, talk to their friends in other grades and get more details about these opportunities.
November 19, 2019Blogs and Perspectives, Community Engagement
![Makenzie Kerr with a 3rd grade class, holding up the fish coloring pages they got by deciphering which fish their egg was from.](/marine-science/news/images/makenzie-kerr-with-a-third-grade-class-holding-up-the-fish-coloring-pages-490x327.jpg)
The Great American Teach In 2019
The “Great American Teach In” is a fun opportunity for community members to talk to kids about their careers and the experiences they had to get to where they are in their field.
November 19, 2019Blogs and Perspectives, Community Engagement
![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.](/marine-science/news/images/barrow-offshore-wind-turbines-490x327.jpg)
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
![Savannah Hartman at the Hawaiian Convention Center](/marine-science/news/images/savannah-hartman-at-the-hawaiian-convention-center-490x327.jpg)
Ocean Obs ’19: Poster session!
Hundreds of posters. Hundreds of people.
September 20, 2019Blogs and Perspectives