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GOMECC cruise departs for another turn around the Gulf

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

The annual ocean monitoring cruise departs on a 42-day journey with three CMS students on board.

New robots see it all: ocean whirlpools, carbon gas absorption, icebergs, and more

Monday, June 12, 2021

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.

Alarming declines in the Gulf’s deepest dwellers

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

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.

2020: a record-breaking year for the USF glider team

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

The gliders, which roamed the ocean 208 days last year, help improve our understanding of red tides, hurricanes, ocean currents, and fish.

Florida Legislature can do even more to make us resilient to climate change and sea level rise | Column

Monday, September 27, 2021

Making investments in protecting our “blue economy” now will pay dividends long into the future.

Red tide and algae blooms: Florida waters in crisis

Monday, September 20, 2021

Florida's water pollution crisis is reaching a breaking point, and the race to pass comprehensive legislation to fix our statewide problems is moving as slow as the environmental catastrophe unfolding in our bays, rivers, natural springs, and lagoons every day.

Dr. Lisa White - University of California, Berkeley

Integrating virtual fieldwork, paleontology collections, and visualization tools to enhance geoscience instruction for diverse audiences.

Dr. Bonnie McCay, NAS - Distinguished Professor Emerita, Rutgers University

Coping with environmental changes: case studies in Newfoundland, Baja California, and the mid-Atlantic coast of the US.

Keeping Good Company: Fish Banks Simulation

On the last Wednesday of OCG the campers participated in a team activity called “Fish Banks,” a simulation game in which the girls acted as hypothetical fishing companies.

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’t thought about until grad school.