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March 21, 2012
Congratulations to CMS PhD student Adrienne George on receiving an NSF East Asian Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) 2012 fellowship!
The EAPSI program allows U.S. graduate students to pursue their 
research interests and gain international research experience and greater cultural awareness with counterparts in East Asian and Pacific host countries and institutions. Adrienne will be conducting research with Dr. Chaolun Allen Chen within the Biodiversity Research Center, at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. Her project will characterize coral diseases and parasites in Taiwan through coral health surveys, analysis of carbon requirements of the microbes in coral mucus, denaturinggradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), and histological examination. This will be the first comprehensive study to characterize and identify the coral diseases of Taiwan.
Adrienne, a member of Dr. Pamela Hallock Muller’s Coral Reef Indicators Lab, earned her M.S. from CMS in August 2011. She has received funding support from the Florida Education Fund’s McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, College of Marine Science CMS Endowed Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship, and NSF Florida Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (FGLSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate programs.
Febrary 21, 2012
Congratulations to post doctoral research associate Dr. Karyna Rosario for winning the 2012 William M. Sackett Prize for innovative research!
Dr. Karyna Rosario recieved her Ph.D. with CMS professor Dr. Mya Breitbart in 2010. The award recognizes her work identifying viruses in reclaimed water for water quality monitoring purposes as well as the discovery of new groups of single-stranded DNA viruses in marine environments. Currently, she is investigating single-stranded DNA viruses in insect vectors in the Breitbart Microbiology Lab as a post doctoral resarch associate at CMS.
The Sackett Prize is designed to award the most meritorious research completed within the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida by one or more deserving students. All present and prior graduate students who have completed a MS or PhD within the past five years are eligible. The Prize is named in honor of Dr. William M. Sackett, who was Chairman of the Department of Marine Science from 1979 to 1983 and retired in 1997 as Distinguished Research Professor.
The Sackett Prize for Innovative Research is unique in that it is the only award in the College of Marine Science that recognizes demonstrated excellence in a completed research project. The other endowments recognize potential excellence in graduate students.
Febrary 13, 2012
USF News: A Joint Attack on Red Tide
USF College of Marine Science is working with scientists in Mexico to study the toxic algae and track its migration.
A cooperative effort between the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science and scientists in Mexico has united scientists in studying red tide, the toxic Karenia brevis algae which can cause major health problems and wreak economic havoc on beach communities all along the Gulf shores.
The new effort has united scientists on either side of the Gulf and is producing more accurate tracking of red tide. It signals a new era of scientific cooperation between states and nations who share a common dependency on the Gulf, say researchers at USF’s College of Marine Science.
View full article by Vickie Chachere
December 1, 2011
Dr. Teresa Greely selected to sail on the R/V JOIDES Resolution
Dr. Teresa Greely, Education & Outreach Coordinator at the USF College of Marine Science, has been selected to fill the Education Officer position on board the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) R/V JOIDES Resolution for Expedition 340 to the Lesser Antilles from February 6th-March 18th, 2012.
The scientific objective of the "Lesser Antilles Volcanism and Landslide" project is to increase understanding of the "constructive and destructive processes occuring along island arcs using the Lesser Antilles arc as a prime example. This project involves drilling, coring, and logging along one transect with three sites southeast of Montserrat, one site southwest of Montserrat, one site southwest of Dominica, one site northwest Martinique, as well as one transect with three sites southwest of Martinique. The record of eruptive activity and volcanoclastic sedimentation obtained during coring and logging will be used to accomplish these goals" (Source: Scientific Prospectus for Expedition 340).
Travel with Teresa via her Blog - Adventures at Sea
November 22, 2011
College of Marine Science student Ern Symonds wins poster award
Erin Symonds won the 2nd place award for the Best Student Poster Presentation at the 21st Annual Southwest Florida Water Resources Conference in Naples, with her poster titled "Viruses Found in Sewage and Their Potential to Indicate Fecal Pollution in Coastal Waters".
September 29, 2011
College of Marine Science Students receive awards for their academic achievements!
This year the College of Marine Science awarded over $300,000 as endowed fellowships to 26 CMS graduate students!
In addition to the endowed fellowships, many students receive additional awards for their academic achievements. Here are a few...
- Holly Rolls won an Early Career Scientist Award at the 2011 ICES Science Conference in Gdansk, Poland. Her talk was entitled "Resolving the relative importance of fish nursery habitats using otolith elemental fingerprints." As part of the award, she will get funds for traveling to her choice of future meetings in Bergen (2012) or Copenhagen (2013).
- Maria Vega-Rodriguez was awarded a 2011 Successful Latina Student Award.
- Claudia Baron Aguilar was awarded a 2011 Successful Latina Student Award.
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