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Will there be enough krill to go around? It’s not an easy question.

Everybody Likes Krill

Will there be enough krill to go around? It’s not an easy question.

November 1, 2018News

Sean Beckwith and Luis Sorinas discuss the impact of ocean acidification on calcifying organisms with members of the St. Pete community.

Food Trucks, Vegetables, and Ocean Acidification? USF CMS Takes on the Saturday Morning Market

On Saturday, October 27, 2018, students, staff, and faculty from the College of Marine Science came together to help teach the St. Petersburg community about ocean acidification.

October 31, 2018News

University of South Florida: A Preeminent Research University

Celebrating 10 Years of Marine and Coastal Fisheries

Congratulations to Dr. Steven Murawski and Dr. Ernst Peebles for the paper that they co-authored being selected in the top 10 for the past decade by the journal Marine and Coastal Fisheries.

October 29, 2018News

Young climbers take on the rock wall in the foreground of the Poynter Park Stage at the 2018 St. Petersburg Science Festival

The 2018 St. Pete Science Festival Brings Plenty of Science and Fun in the Sun

This year’s booths included Ocean Microcosm, Paleo Experiments, Ocean Iron Plinko Board, pH Races, Gulf Detectives: Fishing Sediments, and Oil Spills, and an art exhibit of high-resolution Electron Microscopy imagery.

October 23, 2018News

Dr. Brad Rosenheim discusses the threat of sea level rise at Taste of Science.

The CMS Community Comes Together for a “taste of science”

What do mangroves, mud, and Antarctica have to do with St. Petersburg? This is a question Dr. Brad Rosenheim has been pondering for many years.

October 22, 2018News

Radiolarian imaged by a Scanning Electron Microscope. (Photo Credit: Tony Greco)

USF CMS Electron Microscopy Laboratory Offers High Resolution Analysis for any Scientific Discipline

Anthony M. Greco has mastered the science and the art of electron microscopy, but he has also mastered some other crucial qualities that go along with any scientific discipline: education and outreach.

October 20, 2018News

Pamela Hallock Muller, Professor - Geological Oceanography

Landmark Paper In Carbonate Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Hallock Muller on AAPG now judging her “Nutrient excess and the demise of coral reefs and carbonate platforms” paper as a landmark in the category Carbonate Sedimentology and Stratigraphy.

October 17, 2018CMS in the News

Drs. Murawski and Mann were two of the eight featured speakers who gave 6-minute “lightning talks” at the inaugural “State of Science” event held at the new Research & Education building of Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital.

Marine Science Shines in St. Pete Innovation District

Be sure to catch the action on October 20th, 2018.

October 12, 2018News

Mya Breitbart's Innovation in the 'Burg' podcast

USF CMS Professor Mya Breitbart’s Innovation in the ‘Burg’ Podcast

Dr. Mya Breitbart, professor of Marine Biology at USF College of Marine Science talks with Tee Grizzard, artist and Risk Management Consultant at LassiterWare.

October 12, 2018News

2010 Deepwater Horizon environmental disaster

USF Examines Health of Gulf of Mexico in Aftermath of Oil Spill

A team of scientists and students from the University of South Florida have spent the past seven years looking at what lies beneath the Gulf of Mexico since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon environmental disaster.

October 12, 2018News

Author Jack Davis (center) talks with guests before giving a talk on his Pulitzer Prize-winning book. USFCMS professor Steve Murawski (left) waits to ask Dr. Davis a question.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Jack Davis, speaks at inaugural event of the Joint Institute for the Gulf of Mexico Studies

The environmental history professor and award-winning author most recently received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in history for his book The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.

October 11, 2018News

College of Marine Science students pose with trash pickers after a long day’s work

USF CMS Students and the St. Petersburg Community Come Together to Help Clean a Local Park

This year, MSAC united with Keep Pinellas Beautiful as a part of their International Coastal Cleanup, an initiative aimed at reducing marine debris along our coastlines.

October 3, 2018News

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