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Rising Tides Newsletter, August 2021 edition.

Rising Tides August 2021

View some of the highlights in the Rising Tides Newsletter, August 2021 edition.

August 18, 2021Rising Tides Newsletter

View of the first fuel ship entering the Port of Tampa after Hurricane Irma, as it passes NRT 5. Credit: NOAA

Tampa Bay-PORTS Celebrates 30 Years

The real-time 鈥渃oastal intelligence鈥� system was the first of its kind in the US. It is now one of 37 systems around the country managed by NOAA.

August 17, 2021News

The $1 trillion-dollar infrastructure bill passed Aug. 10 by the Senate contains disaster and flood-resilience provisions of historic proportions.

August 17, 2021Resiliency News

Florida鈥檚 2 million outdoor workers 鈥� more than 20 percent of its workforce 鈥� will be at greater risk of losing their lives and $8.4 billion in total annual earnings.

August 17, 2021Resiliency News

Octopus arms. Photo credit, Comparative Environmental Physiology (CEPh) Laboratory

Brad Siebel is being recognized with an Outstanding Research Achievements Award

Congratulations, Dr. Brad Seibel! He is one of 22 USF faculty members who didn鈥檛 allow the pandemic to impede productivity.

August 16, 2021Awards

First-year courses that address the 鈥渉idden curriculum鈥� of graduate school are critical, according to a publication in Nature Geoscience that includes co-author Dr. Mya Breitbart.

Leveling the Playing Field for Grad Students

First-year courses that address the 鈥渉idden curriculum鈥� of graduate school are critical, according to a publication in Nature Geoscience that includes co-author Dr. Mya Breitbart.

August 10, 2021News

Science Mentors Bella and Kylee present the fisheries data to the campers.

Keeping Good Company: Fish Banks Simulation

On the last Wednesday of OCG the campers participated in a team activity called 鈥淔ish Banks,鈥� a simulation game in which the girls acted as hypothetical fishing companies.

July 21, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp

Peer counselor Lauren, Lab Leaders Savannah and Dr. Digna, and campers Savannah, Sarah, Megan, and Alana help create a final presentation showing sea surface temperature and eddies that formed in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Gulf Stream from July 2020 鈥� July 2021.

Remote Sensing is FAR out!

Our goal was to teach these young women about the complex mechanisms and properties of the ocean that we hadn鈥檛 thought about until grad school.

July 20, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp

The lab rotation 2 group featuring OCG Fellow Shannon, campers Jocelyn, Arianna, Jenna, and Faustina, and Science Mentor Juan holding up their cool dry ice experiments in progress.

Bonding Time

This year鈥檚 Ocean Chemistry lab made for some good reactions! We began with a bead counting activity to show the composition of salts in the oceans.

July 20, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp

Ojas showing Ciona to campers Willow and Sophie.

Marine Microbes & I

Exploring the role of microbiome on marine and gut health.

July 20, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp

Science Mentor Mike and campers Arianna, Jocelyn, and Jenna examine the anatomy of a Redfish.

One Fish, Two Fish, Tampa Bay Redfish!

The goal of the lab is pretty straight forward: To learn about fish and why they are important.

July 20, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp

Science Mentor Becky and Peer Counselor Shiyenne assisting campers Sarah, Amiya, and Ari with creating their surplus models in Excel.

O-fish-ally Out of Fish? Marine Protection and Fisheries Lab

Campers got to learn the importance of protecting marine life and tried their hand at being fisheries managers in the Marine Protection and Fisheries Modeling lab.

July 20, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp

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