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Dr. Robert Weisberg, Distinguished University Professor and Physical Oceanographer at USF College of Marine Science

Interview with Dr. Weisberg, Ocean Circulation and Ecology – Part I

The key to answering many of the big questions about living organisms is to understand the forces at work in their everyday environment.

May 10, 2018News

2018 Final Winners Montgomery Blair

Montgomery Blair High School Cruises to Victory in 21st Annual NOSB

The 2018 Spoonbill Regional champion team, students from Eastside High School in Gainesville Florida placed 10th overall in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl competition

April 25, 2018Community Engagement

Professor Emeritus Al Hine

Marine Science activism at the community level

“Back away from the barrier islands,” Dr. Albert Hine urged county commissioners in the past here in the Tampa Bay region.

April 20, 2018News

Ocean Buoy Monitoring Deployment Buoy

National Academies Gulf Research Program Awards Over $340,000

USF is one of 11 institutions receiving recovery support.

April 18, 2018News

Ryan Venturelli receives a 2018 GSA Graduate Student Research Grant

Ryan Venturelli receives a 2018 GSA Graduate Student Research Grant

This research involves the application of coral clumped isotopes to understand changes in temperature, seawater isotopic composition, and salinity along the Florida Keys Reef Tract throughout the last 11,000 years.

April 17, 2018Awards

Floating lab at USF CMS

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

Congratulations Theresa King!

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 USF College of Marine Science

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

Congratulations Michelle Guitard!

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

Interdisciplinary Research in Costa Rica USF Marine Science Graduate Students

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

2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

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 edition.

Rising Tides Newsletter - Spring 2018

View some of the highlights in the Rising Tides Newsletter, Spring 2018 edition.

March 28, 2018Rising Tides Newsletter

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