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High-Resolution multibeam maps to identify essential habitats on the west Florida coast shelf. Image Credit C-SCAMP Project

Florida researchers team to map entire Florida coast, wildlife habitats

The USF College of Marine Science is teaming up with the Florida Institute of Oceanography to map the entire Florida coast, as well as gather data on fish spawning areas in the state’s coastal waters.

July 24, 2018News

Building remotely operated vehicles

Engineering Remotely Operated Vehicles

Practicing design collaboration, communication, and some hands-on engineering skills, the ROV Lab campers got to spend a day in the life of an ocean engineer.

July 23, 2018Girls Camp

 A picture taken in April shows sargassum seaweed on the French Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe. Helene Valenzuela /AFP/Getty Images

Masses Of Seaweed Threaten Fisheries And Foul Beaches

Masses of brown seaweed, sometimes a few clumps, often big mounds, line the shore.

July 23, 2018News

Dinorah Chacin Amoren of the Fish Ecology Lab

Get to know Dinorah Chacin Amorena a PhD student at the Fish Ecology Lab

Dinorah Chacin Amorena, a PhD student at the Fish Ecology Lab gives you a sneak peak into her personal life.

July 16, 2018Blogs and Perspectives, Diversity

Ciona robusta (commonly referred to as a ‘sea squirt’)

Microbiology Techniques with Ocean Critters

The girls of OCG spent two half days with the Dishaw Lab at USFSP identifying and exploring characteristics of microbes from a marine organism.

July 15, 2018Girls Camp

Salisbury, J., et al. (2016), Coastal observations from a new vantage point, Eos, 97,https://doi.org/10.1029/2016EO062707. Published on 14 November 2016.

Remote Sensing

The first two lab days, I had four amazing campers who learned how satellites use light from the sun to make interpretations of the environment based off the surface conditions of our oceans.

July 11, 2018Girls Camp

Red snapper next to pipeline

USF CMS Research Team Working as Part of the Cooperative Red Snapper Count

The study is Gulf-wide, extending from Texas to the Dry Tortugas west of the Florida Keys, and seeks to combine technologies and survey approaches to better estimate the size and structure of Red Snapper populations throughout the Gulf of Mexico.

July 10, 2018News

CRYO-CO2 experiment

Iron, Bubbles, Oil Spill Troubles

In the Ocean Chemistry labs, campers explored the invisible processes essential to our oceans.

July 9, 2018Girls Camp

2010 BP Deep Horizon oil spill

Seven Year Study Reveals Data to Protect Oceans Against Future Oil Spills

Researchers just published results of a seven-year study, recording the most comprehensive data available of marine life throughout the entire Gulf of Mexico.

July 8, 2018News

USF CMS alumna Inia Soto Ramos

GRIIDC Hires USF CMS Alumna Inia Soto Ramos to Specialize in Ocean Satellite Data

In her new role with the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC), she will work as a data curator to review scientific data sets on their way to the GRIIDC ERDDAP server.

July 6, 2018News

Fish Banks

Fish Banks: Learning about conservation

The second to last day of camp is the day of the Fish Banks game, or as I like to call it, the “Best Day of Camp”!

July 5, 2018Girls Camp

Image from NASA's MODIS satellite for October 2011, showing the Gulf Stream Eddy targeted in the study, picked out by surface chlorophyll (credit NASA)

Gulf Steam Eddies supply iron to the iron-starved North Atlantic Gyre

Understanding the role of metals in ocean ecosystems is thus a research priority for a number of faculty at the USF College of Marine Science, and internationally.

July 2, 2018News

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