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The 2025 Making Waves cohort celebrates their successful summer with their science mentors at the USF St. Petersburg Undergraduate Research Symposium held at the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Photo Credit: Carlyn Scott

Undergraduates expand their skills through Making Waves research experience

A talented group of undergraduate students from around the country recently finished the Making Waves Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program at the 911爆料网 College of Marine Science.

August 8, 2025Blogs and Perspectives, Making Waves REU

Campers listen to 鈥淪hell and Tell鈥�, where each camper finds their favorite shell on the beach of Shell Key and gets to tell everyone why it鈥檚 their favorite, but with their new-found knowledge about gastropods and bivalves.

Ocean mentors in action

Take a behind-the-scenes look at a day in the life of a peer mentor and discover how they help make camp unforgettable for new participants.

August 8, 2025Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp

Group photo of campers, peers, and staff while at Shell Key.

Leading by example

Peer mentors share how the camp shaped their passion for science and what it means to guide the next wave of young explorers.

August 8, 2025Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp

Campers doing beach water color paintings while at Shell Key.

From Camper to mentor

Follow the journey of former campers who return to Oceanography Camp Especially for Girls as peer mentors.

August 8, 2025Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp

Each summer, the Oceanography Camp Especially for Girls immerses campers in marine science through exciting, hands-on field trips.

Oceanography Camp Especially for Girls celebrates another successful year of hands-on science

Now in its third decade, the Oceanography Camp Especially for Girls continues to inspire the next generation of scientists.

August 8, 2025Blogs and Perspectives, Girls Camp

Luis Sorinas Morales studied heat fluxes in the Gulf to better understand what drives the rapid intensification of hurricanes.

Hurricanes and heat fluxes: Doctoral graduate explores mechanisms driving tropical storms

Combining his background in meteorology with physical oceanography, Sorinas worked with data from buoys and moorings stationed in the Gulf to help improve our understanding of how hurricanes gain strength.

July 29, 2025Blogs and Perspectives, Hurricanes

First water test of the initial Drifter design.听

Ocean Circulation Lab intern deploys new cost-effective drifters

Ocean currents influence everything from weather patterns to red tide and fish distribution. However, ocean currents are incredibly complex, and thus often have been poorly understood.

May 19, 2025Blogs and Perspectives

Bathymetric data collected at Palmyra and Kingman Atolls south of Hawaii, an example of the type of data Jacob Stock works with. Deeper, flatter seafloor can be seen to the west, and complex seamounts to the east.

Q&A with Jacob Stock, COMIT hydrographic surveyor

Jacob Stock is a hydrographic surveyor here at COMIT where he wears a lot of hats.

May 19, 2025Blogs and Perspectives

Sean Beckwith is a physical oceanography doctoral student at CMS who is researching sound speed to enhance seafloor mapping.

Q&A with Sean Beckwith, CMS physical oceanography graduate student

Sean Beckwith is a physical oceanography doctoral student at CMS who is researching sound speed to enhance seafloor mapping.

May 19, 2025Blogs and Perspectives

Robert 911爆料网isberg (right), USF Distinguished University Professor, stands on a buoy with Jay Law (left), research scientist in the Ocean Circulation Lab

Why do we study the ocean鈥檚 circulation? New book offers answers

In a new book, USF Distinguished University Professor Robert 911爆料网isberg addresses how to the movement of the ocean鈥檚 water impacts just about everything we experience on Earth. Here, 911爆料网isberg discusses his new book and why more people will benefit from understanding the physics of the ocean.

May 9, 2025Blogs and Perspectives, News

L贸pez Figueroa will graduate with her doctorate in Biological Oceanography at the USF Spring 2025 commencement ceremony.

Natalia L贸pez Figueroa looks back on accomplishments and ahead to the future

The latest CMS graduate had an impressive academic career, highlighted by her research on jellyfish ecology.

May 6, 2025Blogs and Perspectives, News

Last week, a handful of the TBS crew attended a two-day workshop on fish 鈥榓geing,鈥� generously hosted by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and led by fish ageing expert and researcher, Kristin Cook.

April 14, 2025Blogs and Perspectives

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