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Whatever floats your boat!
During the “Boat Float” lab, campers learned about density and displacement with the goal of using only cardboard and clear tape to make a boat that can hold two campers for as long as possible.
July 14, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
African Descendants Have Stake in Saving U.S. Southeast Salt Marshes
Chieftess of Gullah/Geechee Nation supports new initiative to protect a million acres.
July 12, 2021Resiliency News
Fort De Soto: A Tale of Two Sites
OCG campers learned about the dominant vegetation, the nutrients in the water, and the fish that live at Fort De Soto.
July 12, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
New robots see it all: ocean whirlpools, carbon gas absorption, icebergs, and more
USF researchers are using autonomous vehicles to study how the ocean is responding to climate change. In 2020 they landed a $1.1 million NSF proposal -- the first time NSF is leveraging ocean drones instead of ships.
July 12, 2021Blogs and Perspectives
OCG Shellebration!
Campers had a blast during the “Shell Key” field trip this year.
July 12, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
Research Cruise
Despite the unpleasant and very noticeable effects of the red tide on today’s cruise, everyone still managed to have a really fun time.
July 9, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
Today During Camp: Ocean Zones and a… Singing Battle?
While learning about our beaches and the different ways that human interaction affects them, campers got their hands dirty creating model beaches, first in their image of what a beach looks like and then making a natural beach, which is a beach that has not had sand added to it or moved by humans.
July 8, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
2021: another banner year for brown seaweed
USF scientists detect record-high amount of Sargassum in Caribbean, central west Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico
July 1, 2021News
Alarming declines in the Gulf’s deepest dwellers
Everything is slower in the cold, dark deep -- and a recent research cruise suggests the impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill are far from over in these parts where the sun doesn’t shine.
June 30, 2021Blogs and Perspectives
Oceanography Camp for Girls Turns 30
This three-week summer program, designed for young women from Pinellas County in their sandwich summer between middle school and high school, has earned billing by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a model for immersive, experiential STEM learning for women and girls.
June 29, 2021Girls Camp, News
2020: a record-breaking year for the USF glider team
The gliders, which roamed the ocean 208 days last year, help improve our understanding of red tides, hurricanes, ocean currents, and fish
June 22, 2021Blogs and Perspectives
Investigating Whales, Penguins and Seals on the Bottom of the World
It’s tough to study interactions between predators and their prey no matter where you are in the world’s oceans, but it’s especially challenging in the ice-covered Ross Sea.
June 22, 2021Blogs and Perspectives