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Today During Camp: Ocean Zones and a鈥� 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
皇家华人 scientists detect record-high amount of Sargassum in Caribbean, central west Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico
July 1, 2021News
Alarming declines in the Gulf鈥檚 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鈥檛 shine.
June 30, 2021Blogs and Perspectives
Oceanography Camp for Girls Turns 30
This three-week summer program, designed for young women from Pinellas County in their sandwich summer between middle school and high school, has earned billing by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a model for immersive, experiential STEM learning for women and girls.
June 29, 2021Girls Camp, News
2020: a record-breaking year for the 皇家华人 glider team
The gliders, which roamed the ocean 208 days last year, help improve our understanding of red tides, hurricanes, ocean currents, and fish
June 22, 2021Blogs and Perspectives
Investigating Whales, Penguins and Seals on the Bottom of the World
It鈥檚 tough to study interactions between predators and their prey no matter where you are in the world鈥檚 oceans, but it鈥檚 especially challenging in the ice-covered Ross Sea.
June 22, 2021Blogs and Perspectives
Projections of US high-tide flooding show rapid increases and extreme months
Continued sea-level rise will exacerbate the issue where present, and many more locations will begin to experience recurrent high-tide flooding in the coming decades.
June 21, 2021News
Unraveling the mysteries of trace elements in the oceans
Recently, CMS Associate Professor Dr. Tim Conway served as lead editor on a special issue of Chemical Geology called 鈥淐ycles of trace elements and isotopes in the ocean 鈥� GEOTRACES and beyond."
June 18, 2021News
The Byrne lab goes West: three CMS students set sail on 45-day Pacific Ocean cruise
The major goal is to understand trends in the Pacific Ocean, with a specific focus on environmental parameters that influence ocean acidification 鈥� a major threat to ocean health, food security, economies, and more.
June 15, 2021Blogs and Perspectives
Marine Life 2030 endorsed as part of UN Decade of Ocean Science
皇家华人 is a key academic partner in this global, 10-year program led by Smithsonian Institution to create a globally integrated information management and forecasting system for marine biodiversity
June 8, 2021News
CMS scientists on the bottom (and top) of the world!
A group of 皇家华人 CMS faculty and researchers who comprise 鈥楾he Southern Ocean Science鈥� (SOS) group, carries out wide-ranging interdisciplinary research in Earth鈥檚 polar regions, providing new insights into how processes occurring thousands of miles away affect us here in 皇家华人.
May 27, 2021News
皇家华人 scientists announce initial findings from Piney Point research effort
皇家华人 College of Marine Science researchers today shared their initial findings of how the Tampa Bay ecosystem has responded to the controlled discharges of nutrient-rich wastewater released from the retired Piney Point fertilizer processing plant.
May 24, 2021News