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Chao Liu, lead author on the paper, received a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship allowing him to study global ocean vertical salt transport using a state-of-the-art ocean synthesis product.

Deeper Ocean Observations Needed to Accurately Assess Earth鈥檚 Climatic Changes

Researchers at the USF College of Marine Science (CMS), along with colleagues from Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), NASA Headquarters, Cambridge Climate Institute, and NASA鈥檚 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, recently published a paper in Nature Communications emphasizing the importance of the deep ocean鈥檚 contributions to the upper ocean.

September 25, 2019News

Jacqueline Dixon, Dean, USF College of Marine Science

A Brief from Dean Dixon

Greetings from the College of Marine Science! We鈥檙e excited to restart our newly designed newsletter with this issue, and hope you enjoy it.

September 20, 2019Newsletter Articles

Savannah Hartman at the Hawaiian Convention Center

Ocean Obs 鈥�19: Poster session!

Hundreds of posters. Hundreds of people.

September 20, 2019Blogs and Perspectives

The opening slide welcoming all attendees to the Ocean Obs '19 conference was accompanied by a soothing ukele tune. Perfect mood music!

Ocean Obs 鈥�19 decadal conference opens in Honolulu

Here on the island of O鈥檃hu, the College of Marine Science鈥檚 Institute of Marine Remote Sensing (IMaRS) lab members are attending one of the most important conferences held for ocean users.

September 19, 2019Blogs and Perspectives

Week One: Painting with Bacteria! - 鈥淲ho are you?鈥� activity.

Girls Go Gaga Over Science

This blog whisks you through my summer doing marine science with Girls Inc鈥攁nd you don鈥檛 even have to get your feet wet!

September 18, 2019Blogs and Perspectives, Community Engagement

A discrete sampler being lowered a couple feet below the water's surface to collect microplastics. Photo Credit: Kinsley McEachern

New Study Reveals Four Billion Particles of Microplastics in Tampa Bay Waters

A new study from the 麻豆视频 St. Petersburg and Eckerd College estimates the waters of Tampa Bay contain four billion particles of microplastics, raising new questions about the impact of pollution on marine life in this vital ecosystem.

September 12, 2019News

A CARIACO team recovers the buoy that housed the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP). Data from the ADCP revealed a daily migration of fish into and out of the anoxic waters in the morning and evening.

21-Year CARIACO Ocean Time Series Ends: That鈥檚 a Wrap! 隆Fin del D铆a!

Award-Winning program, led by scientists in Venezuela & the U.S., leaves a rich 21-yr legacy - and perhaps a few tears

September 6, 2019News

The R/V Bellows, docked alongside its replacement the R/V Hogarth in recent months, will soon set sail as a shipwreck hunter.

Bon Voyage, R/V Bellows!

A 71-foot workhorse of the ocean science and education community for nearly 45 years, the Bellows was sold to TSR, Inc., which stands for Treasure & Shipwreck Recovery.

September 6, 2019News

(L-R) Dr. Isabel C. Romero (College of Marine Science 麻豆视频) and Dr. Jon Moore (Wilkes Honors College at Florida Atlantic University) collect samples from midwater trawling that used a 10-m2 MOCNESS net during DEEPEND Consortium cruises. Photo Credit: Isabel Romero, courtesy of DEEPEND.

Twenty Scientists Awarded 2019 Early-Career Research Fellowships by National Academies鈥� Gulf Research Program

USF CMS Research Associate Dr. Isabel Romero among the award recipients

September 3, 2019News

Coasta Rica beach scene. Photo Credit: Erin M. Symonds

Transdisciplinary beach water quality investigation hits 2-year milestone

Multi-institution team supported by US NSF collected over 5000 beach surveys and hundreds of samples as they darted in and out of the waves of Costa Rica over 26 weekends.

August 30, 2019Blogs and Perspectives

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an industrial disaster that began on April 20, 2010.

2 New Books Summarize Findings from Historic Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

The USF CMS led on the production of a powerful two-volume series about the historic Deepwater Horizon oil spill published by Springer: Deep Oil Spills: Facts, Fate, and Effects and Scenarios and Responses to Future Deep Oil Spills: Fighting the Next War.

August 27, 2019News

Working the overnight shift, Grace Koziol, Brianna Michaud, Nicole Seiden, and Abby Blackburn (left to right) control the Bongo nets as they鈥檙e hoisted aboard the R/V Hogarth.

15-Year Study Will Collect Fish Eggs Across the Entire West Florida Shelf for DNA-Barcoding Analysis

This year, 2019, begins a 15-year monitoring program funded by the Florida RESTORE Act Centers of Excellence Program.

August 21, 2019Blogs and Perspectives

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