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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
Campers use Saildrone to explore the mysteries of the Southern Ocean!
As a key contributor to heat and carbon transport around our globe, the Southern Ocean plays a large role in regulating Earth’s global climate.
July 20, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
Coastal Cleanup
It is a tradition that OCG campers take an afternoon to go around the Clam Bayou property and pick up any trash they find.
July 19, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
Island Time
OCG campers got their daily dose of Vitamin Sea on their field trip to Caladesi Island!
July 15, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
Whatever floats your boat!
During the “Boat Float” lab, campers learned about density and displacement with the goal of using only cardboard and clear tape to make a boat that can hold two campers for as long as possible.
July 14, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
Fort De Soto: A Tale of Two Sites
OCG campers learned about the dominant vegetation, the nutrients in the water, and the fish that live at Fort De Soto.
July 12, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
New robots see it all: ocean whirlpools, carbon gas absorption, icebergs, and more
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.
July 12, 2021Blogs and Perspectives
OCG Shellebration!
Campers had a blast during the “Shell Key” field trip this year.
July 12, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
Research Cruise
Despite the unpleasant and very noticeable effects of the red tide on today’s cruise, everyone still managed to have a really fun time.
July 9, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
Today During Camp: Ocean Zones and a… Singing Battle?
While learning about our beaches and the different ways that human interaction affects them, campers got their hands dirty creating model beaches, first in their image of what a beach looks like and then making a natural beach, which is a beach that has not had sand added to it or moved by humans.
July 8, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
2021: another banner year for brown seaweed
USF scientists detect record-high amount of Sargassum in Caribbean, central west Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico
July 1, 2021News
Alarming declines in the Gulf’s deepest dwellers
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.
June 30, 2021Blogs and Perspectives