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USF students gain valuable experience on floating lab
It’s been nearly a year since University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft christened the multi-million-dollar research vessel, the WT Hogarth. Since then, students and scientists have climbed aboard this floating lab in St. Petersburg, FL.
April 17, 2018News
Theresa King wins poster presentation at the USF Graduate Student Symposium
One of two winners in the category for Natural and Physical Sciences at the USF Graduate Student Symposium, Theresa’s poster and presentation focused on the importance of understanding past interactions of warm waters and Antarctic ice shelves in terms of changes in sea level.
April 10, 2018News
Michelle Guitard, invited to sail on IODP Expedition 382
Guitard will sail on the JOIDES Resolution as a Physical Properties specialist. Post-expedition, Guitard intends to generate ocean temperature records from sites north and south of the Polar front to understand the role of ocean heat on Antarctic ice sheet dynamics during the mid-Pleistocene transition, ~1 million years ago.
April 6, 2018Awards
Ph.D. student, Michelle Guitard, invited to sail on IODP Expedition 382 to the Southern Ocean
Guitard will sail on the JOIDES Resolution as a Physical Properties specialist.
April 6, 2018News
Costa Rica: Beach water quality and management to protect public health
Investigating beach water quality and how it relates to pathogens and human health in Costa Rica.
April 5, 2018News
Cycling of carbon from the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico
This study led by Brad Rosenheim shows that the isotopic signature of oil is still present in the water column of the N. Gulf of Mexico 4 years after the spill.
April 4, 2018News
Rising Tides Newsletter - Spring 2018
View some of the highlights in the Rising Tides Newsletter, Spring 2018 edition.
March 28, 2018Rising Tides Newsletter
USF College of Marine Science establishes the Vembu Subramanian MSAC Award
This fund was created through an initial gift from the Little Laws Big Dreams Foundation and will provide an award annually to a current graduate student who demonstrates a collaborative spirit through service to the College of Marine Science and to their fellow graduate students.
March 27, 2018News
A missing generation of fish from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
“Even though we are 8 years removed from the oil spill, we may have not seen the last of its effects based on the results of our model” says Dr. Cameron Ainsworth, a professor at the University of South Florida-College of Marine Science and lead author on the publication.
March 19, 2018News
Ernst Peebles – New CMS Chair of Alumni Outreach
Dr. Peebles’ winding career path provided first-hand study of the ecology of both freshwater and oceanic end-member ecosystems, allowing the kind of big-picture perspective that was necessary for understanding why coastal aquatic animals require different habitats at different stages in their lives.
March 16, 2018News
Science Advocacy Publication 2018
Graduate students, Marcy Cockrell, Kate Dubickas, Megan Hepner, Alex Ilich, and Matt McCarthy, published an article in Fisheries encouraging scientists and science-minded citizens to participate in science advocacy.
March 16, 2018News
Natalia López-Figueroa gives a brief summary of her research and experience at OSM2018
My name is Natalia López-Figueroa, I am a first year Ph.D. student in the biological oceanography program under the advisement of Dr. Mya Breitbart.
March 14, 2018Blogs and Perspectives, Diversity