USF College of Marine Science
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The College of Marine Science (CMS) at USF St. Petersburg is a leading graduate and research institute. We are experts in all things ocean. #usfcms
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Hello Bluesky! 👋 We’re the USF College of Marine Science (CMS), a leader in graduate education and cutting-edge ocean research. Buoyed by world-renowned faculty and research facilities, CMS is the backbone of the largest hub of oceanography in the Southeast.
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🐚What can seashells tell us?
A new article in The Conversation co-authored by Tom Frazer, professor and dean of the College of Marine Science, explores how seashells can act as a historical record of seagrass health.
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🐚What can seashells tell us?
A new article in The Conversation co-authored by Tom Frazer, professor and dean of the College of Marine Science, explores how seashells can act as a historical record of seagrass health.
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Seashells from centuries ago show that seagrass meadows on Florida’s Nature Coast are thriving
Scientists are using mollusk shells to evaluate the health of Florida’s seagrass ecosystems.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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🐚What can seashells tell us?
A new article in The Conversation co-authored by Tom Frazer, professor and dean of the College of Marine Science, explores how seashells can act as a historical record of seagrass health.
theconversation.com/seashells-fr...
🐚What can seashells tell us?
A new article in The Conversation co-authored by Tom Frazer, professor and dean of the College of Marine Science, explores how seashells can act as a historical record of seagrass health.
theconversation.com/seashells-fr...
🌊Melting ice sheets in North America drove the rise in global sea level at the end of the last ice age more than scientists previously thought, according to new research published this week in Nature Geoscience.
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Never mind Antarctica: North American ice sheets caused dramatic rise in sea level after the last ice age
The new study calls into question whether glacial melt will be sufficient to collapse or even slow down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🌊Melting ice sheets in North America drove the rise in global sea level at the end of the last ice age more than scientists previously thought, according to new research published this week in Nature Geoscience.
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🌊In a new study co-led by USF professor @oceanandclimate.bsky.social Patrick Rafter, researchers used forams from the Pliocene to show that warming in the tropical Pacific may not trigger the severe decline in nutrients predicted by earlier models.
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How ancient plankton point to the resilience of ocean ecosystems
The researchers used a cutting-edge approach to predict future ocean conditions by examining the distant past through analyses of microscopic fossils.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🌊In a new study co-led by USF professor @oceanandclimate.bsky.social Patrick Rafter, researchers used forams from the Pliocene to show that warming in the tropical Pacific may not trigger the severe decline in nutrients predicted by earlier models.
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🌊CMS graduate student Angelique Rosa Marín is using forams to evaluate water quality in Puerto Rico. To teach others about her research, she developed an educational module for OCELOTS a NSF funded program that provides free and accessible learning resources.
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Tiny shells with a big story: graduate student develops course exploring microscopic organisms
Angelique Rosa Marín designed a free course about foraminifera, which capture oceanic conditions as their shells grow and can be used to monitor the health of the ocean.
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September 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🌊CMS graduate student Angelique Rosa Marín is using forams to evaluate water quality in Puerto Rico. To teach others about her research, she developed an educational module for OCELOTS a NSF funded program that provides free and accessible learning resources.
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🌊 Congratulations to Chuanmin Hu, Distinguished University Professor, on being elected a 2025 Fellow of @agu.org ! 🌎
👏 Chuanmin was selected for his transformative contributions in optical oceanography and satellite remote sensing with profound ecological, economic, and societal impacts.
👏 Chuanmin was selected for his transformative contributions in optical oceanography and satellite remote sensing with profound ecological, economic, and societal impacts.
September 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
🌊 Congratulations to Chuanmin Hu, Distinguished University Professor, on being elected a 2025 Fellow of @agu.org ! 🌎
👏 Chuanmin was selected for his transformative contributions in optical oceanography and satellite remote sensing with profound ecological, economic, and societal impacts.
👏 Chuanmin was selected for his transformative contributions in optical oceanography and satellite remote sensing with profound ecological, economic, and societal impacts.
🌊 Congrats to Frank Muller-Karger, Distinguished University Professor, on his second term with NOAA’s Ocean Exploration Advisory Board!
September 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🌊 Congrats to Frank Muller-Karger, Distinguished University Professor, on his second term with NOAA’s Ocean Exploration Advisory Board!
🌊Thanks to Michael Paluska of Tampa Bay 28 for visiting our campus and highlighting the College of Marine Science's exciting and important research on rapid intensification!
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Why Hurricanes Ian and Idalia exploded overnight — It wasn't just warm water
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September 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🌊Thanks to Michael Paluska of Tampa Bay 28 for visiting our campus and highlighting the College of Marine Science's exciting and important research on rapid intensification!
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🌊 From fresh faces to seasoned experts, the 2025 Faculty Seminar featured faculty whose research is driving meaningful impact.
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Faculty seminar puts world-class research into focus
The seminar occurs annually and features the research of the college’s faculty
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September 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
🌊 From fresh faces to seasoned experts, the 2025 Faculty Seminar featured faculty whose research is driving meaningful impact.
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🌊 At the USF College of Marine Science, experts are hard at work uncovering the causes of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, measuring its impacts, and helping vulnerable communities prepare.
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USF experts lead on sargassum research, monitoring, and prediction
As the seaweed plagues the Caribbean, researchers at the USF College of Marine Science publish new findings and refine monitoring efforts.
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August 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🌊 At the USF College of Marine Science, experts are hard at work uncovering the causes of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, measuring its impacts, and helping vulnerable communities prepare.
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Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊
August 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊
🌊 Meet Luis Sorinas Morales a physical oceanography student who is graduating with his PhD from the College of Marine Science this semester.
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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 stre...
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July 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🌊 Meet Luis Sorinas Morales a physical oceanography student who is graduating with his PhD from the College of Marine Science this semester.
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🌊How did a crucial “pressure point” in the Gulf lead to a stronger Hurricane Ian in 2022? Find out here: www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
Study finds ‘pressure point’ in the Gulf could drive hurricane strength
Researchers identify how the absence of a strong current at a critical location in the Gulf led to unusually high subsurface sea temperatures and influenced the rapid intensification of Hurricane Ian.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🌊How did a crucial “pressure point” in the Gulf lead to a stronger Hurricane Ian in 2022? Find out here: www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
🌊Telemundo 49 joined us on a research cruise to film the science behind deploying buoys to track ocean currents. This Spanish-language documentary shows how the College of Marine Science helps monitor oceanic conditions critical for hurricane forecasting.
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Que el mar nos cuente: la importancia de las boyas para el pronóstico del tiempo y huracanes
Rubén Capote, meteorólogo en jefe, y Samantha Díaz, presentadora del tiempo, explican cómo las boyas meteorológicas son claves para los pronóstico de las tormentas y huracanes que se forman en el Golf...
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June 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🌊Telemundo 49 joined us on a research cruise to film the science behind deploying buoys to track ocean currents. This Spanish-language documentary shows how the College of Marine Science helps monitor oceanic conditions critical for hurricane forecasting.
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🌊A recent study led by researchers at USF’s College of Marine Science shows that water discharged from rivers can play a role in fueling hurricanes, such as Hurricane Idalia, and may help improve future forecasting efforts.
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How rivers fuel hurricanes — and how that knowledge can improve forecasts
A recent analysis of Hurricane Idalia led by researchers at the USF College of Marine Science demonstrates how an extensive river plume in the Gulf may have influenced the tropical storm’s rapid inten...
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June 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🌊A recent study led by researchers at USF’s College of Marine Science shows that water discharged from rivers can play a role in fueling hurricanes, such as Hurricane Idalia, and may help improve future forecasting efforts.
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🌊A study by @marmite-usf.bsky.social USF College of Marine Science and @universityofhawaii.bsky.social researchers shows that industrial iron from Asia is fueling spring phytoplankton blooms in the North Pacific Transition Zone—an area critical for Pacific fisheries. www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
Iron “fingerprints” reveal marine pollution thousands of miles away
In a recent study, researchers determined that iron found in the North Pacific Transition Zone comes from industrial sources, such as power plants, in Asia.
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June 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🌊A study by @marmite-usf.bsky.social USF College of Marine Science and @universityofhawaii.bsky.social researchers shows that industrial iron from Asia is fueling spring phytoplankton blooms in the North Pacific Transition Zone—an area critical for Pacific fisheries. www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
🌊 It’s World Ocean Month! 🌊
All month long, we’re celebrating the incredible researchers at the USF College of Marine Science who are expanding our understanding of the ocean through cutting-edge, world-renowned science.
All month long, we’re celebrating the incredible researchers at the USF College of Marine Science who are expanding our understanding of the ocean through cutting-edge, world-renowned science.
June 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🌊 It’s World Ocean Month! 🌊
All month long, we’re celebrating the incredible researchers at the USF College of Marine Science who are expanding our understanding of the ocean through cutting-edge, world-renowned science.
All month long, we’re celebrating the incredible researchers at the USF College of Marine Science who are expanding our understanding of the ocean through cutting-edge, world-renowned science.
🌊 Join us in celebrating three exceptional members of the USF College of Marine Science: Joe Donnelly, Boris Galperin, and Teresa Greely.
With decades of service, each has contributed significantly to advancing research, empowering scientists, and supporting community.
With decades of service, each has contributed significantly to advancing research, empowering scientists, and supporting community.
May 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🌊 Join us in celebrating three exceptional members of the USF College of Marine Science: Joe Donnelly, Boris Galperin, and Teresa Greely.
With decades of service, each has contributed significantly to advancing research, empowering scientists, and supporting community.
With decades of service, each has contributed significantly to advancing research, empowering scientists, and supporting community.
🌊 Ocean physics affects more than you think—from red tides to storm surge.
In "Climate to a Fish Sandwich: Why We Study the Ocean’s Circulation", USF's Dr. Robert Weisberg explains why ocean circulation matters—for all of us.
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In "Climate to a Fish Sandwich: Why We Study the Ocean’s Circulation", USF's Dr. Robert Weisberg explains why ocean circulation matters—for all of us.
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Why do we study the ocean’s circulation? New book offers answers
In a new book, USF Distinguished University Professor Robert Weisberg addresses how to the movement of the ocean’s water impacts just about everything we experience on Earth. Here, Weisberg discusses ...
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May 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
🌊 Ocean physics affects more than you think—from red tides to storm surge.
In "Climate to a Fish Sandwich: Why We Study the Ocean’s Circulation", USF's Dr. Robert Weisberg explains why ocean circulation matters—for all of us.
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In "Climate to a Fish Sandwich: Why We Study the Ocean’s Circulation", USF's Dr. Robert Weisberg explains why ocean circulation matters—for all of us.
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The CMS is now on LinkedIn — and we’re thrilled to connect with you! 🎉
Follow us to stay up to date on ocean research, student and faculty achievements, career opportunities, and everything happening at the heart of marine science in the Southeast.
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Follow us to stay up to date on ocean research, student and faculty achievements, career opportunities, and everything happening at the heart of marine science in the Southeast.
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University of South Florida College of Marine Science | 4 followers on LinkedIn. Anchored in excellence | The USF College of Marine Science is a leader in graduate education and ocean research. Locate...
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May 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The CMS is now on LinkedIn — and we’re thrilled to connect with you! 🎉
Follow us to stay up to date on ocean research, student and faculty achievements, career opportunities, and everything happening at the heart of marine science in the Southeast.
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Follow us to stay up to date on ocean research, student and faculty achievements, career opportunities, and everything happening at the heart of marine science in the Southeast.
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The season finale of the Rising Tides Podcast is available now!
This week, Nicole Raineault, associate director of research and technology at the Florida Institute of Oceanography, will explain the ROV Taurus and its use in studying the deep sea.
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This week, Nicole Raineault, associate director of research and technology at the Florida Institute of Oceanography, will explain the ROV Taurus and its use in studying the deep sea.
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The Rising Tides Podcast
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May 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The season finale of the Rising Tides Podcast is available now!
This week, Nicole Raineault, associate director of research and technology at the Florida Institute of Oceanography, will explain the ROV Taurus and its use in studying the deep sea.
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This week, Nicole Raineault, associate director of research and technology at the Florida Institute of Oceanography, will explain the ROV Taurus and its use in studying the deep sea.
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Congratulations to Patrick Rafter, assistant professor of chemical oceanography, who in 2024 was selected as a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow of the
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National Academy of Sciences Selects the 2024 Kavli Fellows - NAS
The National Academy of Sciences announces the selection of one hundred sixty two of the nation's brightest young scientists from industry, academia, and government to take part in the National Academ...
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April 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Congratulations to Patrick Rafter, assistant professor of chemical oceanography, who in 2024 was selected as a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow of the
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Way to go, @oceanandclimate.bsky.social
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Way to go, @oceanandclimate.bsky.social
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🌊For the first time, researchers have identified viruses in red tide blooms, harmful algae that can cause fish kills and respiratory problems for beachgoers. The study may lead to a better understanding of red tide events.
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Viruses identified in red tide blooms for the first time
In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers used viral metagenomics to identify several viruses — including one new viral species — present in blooms of K. brevis, more commonly known as red ...
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April 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🌊For the first time, researchers have identified viruses in red tide blooms, harmful algae that can cause fish kills and respiratory problems for beachgoers. The study may lead to a better understanding of red tide events.
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🌊New podcast just dropped! Listen to the “Rising Tides Podcast” to learn about Sargassum and new methods of tracking the seaweed’s spread.
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‘The Rising Tides Podcast’ explores cutting-edge ocean technologies in marine science
Designed for ocean experts and general audiences alike, “The Rising Tides Podcast” invites oceanographers to discuss their ground-breaking research through one-on-one conversations.
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April 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
🌊New podcast just dropped! Listen to the “Rising Tides Podcast” to learn about Sargassum and new methods of tracking the seaweed’s spread.
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🌊 Brad Siebel, professor of biological oceanography at CMS, was recently elected as an AAAS Fellow for his contributions to marine animal physiology and ecology research.
Congratulations, Brad!
Congratulations, Brad!
Eleven USF faculty among 2024 class of Fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science
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March 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
🌊 Brad Siebel, professor of biological oceanography at CMS, was recently elected as an AAAS Fellow for his contributions to marine animal physiology and ecology research.
Congratulations, Brad!
Congratulations, Brad!
🌊 Scientists have been divided on the causes of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. But a new study in Nature Communications by CMS researcher may have identified what drove a tipping point that brought Sargassum to the Caribbean.
Researchers identify ‘tipping point’ that caused Sargassum inundations in the Caribbean
The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has puzzled researchers since 2011. A new model demonstrates that the alga was brought to the tropics by strong currents, and thrived in ideal growing conditions.
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March 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🌊 Scientists have been divided on the causes of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. But a new study in Nature Communications by CMS researcher may have identified what drove a tipping point that brought Sargassum to the Caribbean.