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Pew Applauds Belizes Ambitious Commitment to Protect Coastal Wetlands
Plan signals growing global interest in nature-based solutions to climate change.
September 2, 2021Resiliency News
Education endeavor born from pandemic
STEAM Forward! Academy team members display their Pacific Ocean mazes. The workshop was led by resident oceanographer, Regina Easley.
September 1, 2021Resiliency News
Team selected to estimate abundance of Greater Amberjack in South Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico
Team selected to estimate abundance of Greater Amberjack in South Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico.
August 25, 2021News
Rising Tides August 2021
View some of the highlights in the Rising Tides Newsletter, August 2021 edition.
August 18, 2021Rising Tides Newsletter
Tampa Bay-PORTS Celebrates 30 Years
The real-time “coastal intelligence” system was the first of its kind in the US. It is now one of 37 systems around the country managed by NOAA.
August 17, 2021News
5 Ways the Infrastructure Bill Would Improve America’s Flood Resilience
The $1 trillion-dollar infrastructure bill passed Aug. 10 by the Senate contains disaster and flood-resilience provisions of historic proportions.
August 17, 2021Resiliency News
Climate change will make heat even deadlier for outdoor workers, study says
Florida’s 2 million outdoor workers — more than 20 percent of its workforce — will be at greater risk of losing their lives and $8.4 billion in total annual earnings.
August 17, 2021Resiliency News
Brad Siebel is being recognized with an Outstanding Research Achievements Award
Congratulations, Dr. Brad Seibel! He is one of 22 USF faculty members who didn’t allow the pandemic to impede productivity.
August 16, 2021Awards
Leveling the Playing Field for Grad Students
First-year courses that address the “hidden curriculum” of graduate school are critical, according to a publication in Nature Geoscience that includes co-author Dr. Mya Breitbart.
August 10, 2021News
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.
July 21, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
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.
July 20, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp
Bonding Time
This year’s Ocean Chemistry lab made for some good reactions! We began with a bead counting activity to show the composition of salts in the oceans.
July 20, 2021Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp