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Oceanography Camp for Girls (OCG) is a three-week summer program for young women from Pinellas County. Dr. Teresa Greely (far left), has served as the Camp鈥檚 director since 1994. Dr. Angela Lodge (far right), a former social worker and youth development expert co-directed OCG with Greely for more than 20 years.

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

Center for Ocean Technology | Glider Fleet

2020: a record-breaking year for the 国产短视频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

The SCINI ROV (in foreground) is being tested by a researcher prior to deployment, while the acoustic towed package is the white cylinder laying on the snow behind it. The Conestoga wagon 鈥渄ry lab鈥 is in the background. Photo credit: Stacy Kim.

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

Regional sea-level change between 1992 and 2019, based on data collected from the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, and Jason-3 satellite altimeters. Blue regions are where sea level has gone down, and orange/red regions are where sea level has gone up. Since 1993, seas around the world have risen an average rate of 3.3 millimeters per year. Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.

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

Aurora borealis is observed from Coast Guard Cutter Healy Oct. 4, 2015, while conducting science operations in the southern Arctic Ocean. Healy was underway in the Arctic Ocean in support of the National Science Foundation-funded Arctic GEOTRACES, part of an international effort to study the distribution of trace elements in the world's oceans. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Cory J. Mendenhall.

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

NOAA鈥檚 R/V Ronald H. Brown will carry the Byrne crew, as well as 26 other scientists, for the West Coast Acidification 2021 cruise. Photo: NOAA.

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

Marine Life 2030 endorsed as part of UN Decade of Ocean Science

国产短视频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

The 79掳N glacier in Greenland. Credit: Stephen Krisch

CMS scientists on the bottom (and top) of the world!

A group of 国产短视频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 Florida.

May 27, 2021News

Kristen Buck, PhD (far left), led the 国产短视频Piney Point field sampling effort and water chemistry analyses.

国产短视频scientists announce initial findings from Piney Point research effort

国产短视频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

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

Modeling was key in Deepwater Horizon oil spill research. So was consistent funding.

New state-of-the-art tools have changed the way we understand the impacts of oil on the marine environment.

May 14, 2021News

NASA scientists use satellites to map the vegetation index, which is the

Measuring biodiversity from space

In a new publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution, a team led by Prof Dr. Andrew Skidmore from the University of Twente in the Netherlands share a new tool to add to the biodiversity toolkit: measuring biodiversity from space.

May 13, 2021News

The All-ABOARD pilot project aims to build diversity, equity, and inclusion in the geosciences. In the fall, or as soon as pandemic restrictions lift, four teams will take part in a unique in-person retreat that will partially take place on a research ship (such as this one, the RV Sally Ride) operated by the U.S. Academic Fleet. Photo: U.S. Navy

国产短视频Team Selected to Join New NSF Diversity Program

The goal of this two-year program hosted by Columbia University to advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) initiatives in STEM.

May 7, 2021Diversity, News

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