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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No new science news from us bc we’ve been “Shackletoned”-stuck and drifting with the ice for a few days now. Hoping a big storm will blow us out tomorrow so we can finally get back to work! Drone photo is by Dr Ellen Buckley, diatoms & filmentous ice algae are from the ice station #oceanography 🐧🇦🇶🌊
January 20, 2026 at 9:27 PM
No new science news from us bc we’ve been “Shackletoned”-stuck and drifting with the ice for a few days now. Hoping a big storm will blow us out tomorrow so we can finally get back to work! Drone photo is by Dr Ellen Buckley, diatoms & filmentous ice algae are from the ice station #oceanography 🐧🇦🇶🌊
🌊AI meets ocean science 🌎 New research led by USF and NOAA reveals a global rise in floating algae, signaling a major shift in ocean conditions with wide-ranging impacts on ecosystems, tourism, and coastal economies.
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Scientists harness AI to discover a rise in floating algae across the global ocean
Authors of the new paper in Nature Communications attributed the bloom expansions to both human activities, such as nutrient runoff into the ocean, and climate variability, such as ocean warming.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
🌊AI meets ocean science 🌎 New research led by USF and NOAA reveals a global rise in floating algae, signaling a major shift in ocean conditions with wide-ranging impacts on ecosystems, tourism, and coastal economies.
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🎉 Congratulations to Chuanmin Hu on his recent election as a Fellow of The Oceanography Society!
Hu was nominated for his work on optical oceanography and satellite remote sensing. Among Hu’s contributions is his landmark work characterizing the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.
Hu was nominated for his work on optical oceanography and satellite remote sensing. Among Hu’s contributions is his landmark work characterizing the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.
January 15, 2026 at 5:50 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Chuanmin Hu on his recent election as a Fellow of The Oceanography Society!
Hu was nominated for his work on optical oceanography and satellite remote sensing. Among Hu’s contributions is his landmark work characterizing the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.
Hu was nominated for his work on optical oceanography and satellite remote sensing. Among Hu’s contributions is his landmark work characterizing the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.
Applications are still open!
🌊We're hiring! The College of Marine Science is seeking a tenure-track faculty member in Geological Oceanography, with an emphasis in hydrography or marine geophysics.
Learn more about the position and how to apply at the link below.
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Learn more about the position and how to apply at the link below.
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January 14, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Applications are still open!
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Happy New Years All! I am so excited to share the very first preprint from my lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... - from @lydiaruggles.bsky.social's thesis-also my first student 😊. tldr: Only bacteria collected during a Pyrodinium bloom rescued Pyro from B12 limitation #microbialsky #microsky 🦠🧪🧬🌊
B-vitamin requirements and phycosphere interactions for the HAB-forming dinoflagellate, Pyrodinium bahamense var. bahamense
Pyrodinium bahamense is a saxitoxin-producing dinoflagellate found in tropical and subtropical estuarine waters globally, with the var. bahamense variety forming recurrent harmful algal blooms (HABs) ...
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January 5, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Happy New Years All! I am so excited to share the very first preprint from my lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... - from @lydiaruggles.bsky.social's thesis-also my first student 😊. tldr: Only bacteria collected during a Pyrodinium bloom rescued Pyro from B12 limitation #microbialsky #microsky 🦠🧪🧬🌊
🌊 The USF College of Marine Science and Saildrone teamed up to develop more efficient methods of collecting sound speed profiles, critical data that improves seafloor mapping models.
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Read more about the collaboration here: www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
Public-private partnership tackles seafloor mapping challenge
Researchers at the USF College of Marine Science collaborated with Saildrone to improve techniques for hydrography.
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January 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM
🌊 The USF College of Marine Science and Saildrone teamed up to develop more efficient methods of collecting sound speed profiles, critical data that improves seafloor mapping models.
Read more about the collaboration here: www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
Read more about the collaboration here: www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
🌊We're hiring! The College of Marine Science is seeking a tenure-track faculty member in Geological Oceanography, with an emphasis in hydrography or marine geophysics.
Learn more about the position and how to apply at the link below.
fa-ewkd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Learn more about the position and how to apply at the link below.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🌊We're hiring! The College of Marine Science is seeking a tenure-track faculty member in Geological Oceanography, with an emphasis in hydrography or marine geophysics.
Learn more about the position and how to apply at the link below.
fa-ewkd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Learn more about the position and how to apply at the link below.
fa-ewkd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
We were so excited to host the City of St Pete Mayor, Ken Welch, at the USF College of Marine Science outreach center, Clam Bayou Marine Education Center! During his visit, Mayor Welch was able to observe the students as they engaged in hands-on field work.
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We were so excited to host the City of St Pete Mayor, Ken Welch, at the USF College of Marine Science outreach center, Clam Bayou Marine Education Center! During his visit, Mayor Welch was able to observe the students as they engaged in hands-on field work.
A new study published this week in Nature Geoscience found that while tropical Atlantic is experiencing a significant increase in sargassum, abundance of the seaweed is declining in its historic habitats of the Gulf and Sargasso Sea.
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Study reveals dramatic decline in some historic sargassum populations
Certain populations of sargassum have plummeted in abundance over the past ten years, raising alarm for marine ecosystems that depend on the seaweed.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A new study published this week in Nature Geoscience found that while tropical Atlantic is experiencing a significant increase in sargassum, abundance of the seaweed is declining in its historic habitats of the Gulf and Sargasso Sea.
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🌊At the International GEOTRACES Programme Summer School in Cape Town, College of Marine Science Associate Professor @marmite-usf.bsky.social Tim Conway helped train the next generation of chemical oceanographers, sharing his expertise on trace metals and marine biogeochemistry.
December 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🌊At the International GEOTRACES Programme Summer School in Cape Town, College of Marine Science Associate Professor @marmite-usf.bsky.social Tim Conway helped train the next generation of chemical oceanographers, sharing his expertise on trace metals and marine biogeochemistry.
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#WCMB2026 #ScientificCommittee
Frank Muller-Karger from @cmarinescience.bsky.social studies coastal and marine ecosystems including water quality, biological production, biodiversity, climate change, and human activities.
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Frank Muller-Karger from @cmarinescience.bsky.social studies coastal and marine ecosystems including water quality, biological production, biodiversity, climate change, and human activities.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#WCMB2026 #ScientificCommittee
Frank Muller-Karger from @cmarinescience.bsky.social studies coastal and marine ecosystems including water quality, biological production, biodiversity, climate change, and human activities.
www.wcmb2026.org/sccombio#Fra...
@unoceandecade.bsky.social @vliz.be
Frank Muller-Karger from @cmarinescience.bsky.social studies coastal and marine ecosystems including water quality, biological production, biodiversity, climate change, and human activities.
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@unoceandecade.bsky.social @vliz.be
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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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