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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

The Boyd Hill Birds of Prey Aviary was renamed to honor former CMS professor Gabe Vargo who played an integral part in developing the aviary. Photo credit: FOBH/Katie Bryden

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

Doctoral student Sara Reinelt will use data from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission in her research funded by the FINESST grant. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CNES

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 Milton captured via NOAA’s GOES East satellite as it approached the west coast of Florida. Image courtesy of NOAA/NESDIS

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

The glider Jai Alai was originally deployed for red tide observations but remained in the water to collect data on both Hurricane Helen and Milton.

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

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Rising Tides Newsletter Archives

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October 17, 2024Rising Tides Newsletter

USF College of Marine Science Aerial Campus View

Rising Tides - October 2024

View some of the highlights in the Rising Tides Newsletter, October 2024 edition.

October 17, 2024Rising Tides Newsletter

Dr. Ana Arellano with the  2024 REU Making Waves students.

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

A conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) rosette used to sample water from the ocean’s twilight zone during a GEOTRACES expedition in the Pacific Ocean. Credit: Alex Fox.

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

Cheng Xue, a postdoctoral scholar in the Optical Oceanography Lab at USF CMS, is the lead author on a recent article published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. The figure above shows satellite images of Qatari coastal waters (left) and the floating algae scums of 2017 (right). Courtesy of Cheng Xue.

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

Skeletons and shells from an invasive species of foraminifera are helping build beaches like this one in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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

The crew captured the first live footage of the Promachoteuthis squid, a genus which had previously only been characterized from dead samples. Credit: ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute

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

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