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CMS in the News 2024
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 2024.
November 21, 2024CMS in the News
Former USF professor honored with Boyd Hill Birds of Prey Aviary
Gabe Vargo, a former professor at the College of Marine Science, helped found the birds of prey program at Boyd Hill and was an integral part in developing the aviary.
November 14, 2024Blogs and Perspectives, Community Engagement, News
Prestigious NASA award will help CMS student study the Southern Ocean
Sara Reinelt, a doctoral student in the lab of Don Chambers, was awarded a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) grant, which will fund her research of eddy-induced carbon flux in the Southern Ocean.
November 13, 2024Awards, Blogs and Perspectives
Hurricane season puts new storm surge model to the test
Spread across the West Florida Shelf, buoys with sensors continuously collect and transmit critical information that allows scientists in the Ocean Circulation Lab at the USF College of Marine Science to track intensification of hurricanes in real time.
October 30, 2024News
How a USF glider helped forecast Hurricane Helene
An underwater glider deployed by a group at the College of Marine Science collected valuable oceanographic data that helped forecasters predict the path and intensity of hurricane Helene.
October 24, 2024News
Rising Tides Newsletter Archives
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October 17, 2024Rising Tides Newsletter
Rising Tides - October 2024
View some of the highlights in the Rising Tides Newsletter, October 2024 edition.
October 17, 2024Rising Tides Newsletter
Celebrating the Success of the Making Waves REU 2024
We want to take a moment to express our sincere gratitude for the dedication that the mentors, graduate students, program coordinators, and USF personnel provided during the 2024 Making Waves REU (MWREU) program.
October 3, 2024Blogs and Perspectives, Making Waves REU
Deep-sea discovery shines light on life in the twilight zone
A GEOTRACES expedition in the Pacific Ocean revealed low levels of iron in the ocean’s twilight zone. A paper detailing the unexpected findings was published this week in Nature.
September 19, 2024News
Revealed by satellites: Long-term trends of coastal water quality in Qatar
In a recent article, members of the Optical Oceanography Lab used satellite observations to track changes to coastal water quality in Qatar, where a fast-growing economy comes with environmental challenges.
September 16, 2024Publication Highlights
An “invasive” marine organism has become an economic resource in the eastern Mediterranean
A recent paper on foraminifera in the eastern Mediterranean offers a unique perspective on the complex interactions between humans and marine environments.
September 12, 2024News
Team led by USF alum discovers seamount, new species along Nazca Ridge
This discovery of a deep-sea mountain is the latest in a string of new seafloor data gathered in the Nazca Ridge area by scientists led by Jyotika Virmani at the Schmidt Ocean Institute.
September 9, 2024News