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The 2023 St. Petersburg Science Festival

CMS students, faculty, staff had a blast at St. Petersburg Science Festival

St. Petersburg Science Festival took place on a couple of perfect-weather days: February 17 and 18, 2023.

February 22, 2023Blogs and Perspectives

After 10 days completing multibeam surveys and Super Sites along our North-South transect of Ross Bank, we switched directions to conduct our East-West transect and finish our science days.

February 22, 2023Blogs and Perspectives

Three-dimensional visualization of dissolved Fe isotope ratios (δ56Fe) along GEOTRACES sections in (a) the Atlantic and (b) the Pacific. Data are originally from Cyril Abadie, Tim Conway, Jessica Fitzsimmons, Joshua Helgoe, Hannah Hunt, Seth John, François Lacan, Nathan Lanning, Franck Poitrasson, Amadine Radic, Matthias Sieber, Yoshiki Sohrin, Brent Summers, Shotaro Takano, Emily Townsend, and Derek Vance; they are available in the GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2021 (GEOTRACES Int. Data Prod. Group 2021) or are unpublished (GA08 and GP15, provided by Jessica Fitzsimmons and Tim Conway). The visualizations were created and provided by Reiner Schlitzer, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany. Abbreviation: IRMM-014, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements Standard 014.

How to pump up your iron: hit the gym, eat spinach, or talk to Tim Conway

A Q&A with CMS Associate Professor Tim Conway about iron in the ocean.

February 16, 2023News

We are halfway through our allotted science days on NBP23-02, the second leg of our cruise. During our McMurdo port call, we were joined by a new group of scientists: marine ecologists who study Emperor penguins!

February 11, 2023Blogs and Perspectives

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M.S. and Ph.D. candidates shine in 39th Graduate Student Symposium

Fifteen CMS graduate students delivered oral or poster presentations summarizing their research projects as part of the аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢College of Marine Science’s (CMS) 39th annual Graduate Student Symposium.

February 3, 2023Blogs and Perspectives

We had a port call at the largest US research station in Antarctica, McMurdo Station (MacTown), at the halfway point (hump day) of our expedition to switch out some of the ship’s crew and science party groups.

January 25, 2023Blogs and Perspectives

As we arrived at our first study site, there was excitement in the air. We were surveying a site in the Pennell Trough, Ross Sea that may provide clues to how the Ross Ice Shelf retreated in the past.

January 18, 2023Blogs and Perspectives

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All Hands on Deck

Researchers identify priorities within synthesis research in ecology and environmental science to address pressing issues and questions

January 12, 2023Blogs and Perspectives

Hello from Emily in the Antarctic! We’ve had quite the journey south onboard the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer. We left Lyttleton, New Zealand and transited to the Ross Sea, Antarctica over ~10 days.

January 9, 2023Blogs and Perspectives

Graduate student Emily Kaiser, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Amelia Shevenell’s lab, reports in from a research expedition to the Ross Sea, Antarctica, where she is part of a team exploring the timing and mechanisms forcing retreat of the Ross Ice Shelf (RIS) following the Last Glacial Maximum. The team will use seafloor mapping, seismic reflection, and sediment coring to achieve their objectives. Read more about their expedition – and stay tuned for more updates from Emily.

January 4, 2023Blogs and Perspectives

Savannah Hartman

Obligation to Enhance OBIS Data for Sea- and Shorebirds of the Americas

The family Procellariidae, which includes open-ocean petrels and shearwaters, were documented in the most marine ecoregions.

January 3, 2023Publication Highlights

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CMS in the News 2022

The аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢College of Marine Science news team is dedicated to sharing аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢CMS's story to a global audience. View CMS in the news for 2022.

December 23, 2022CMS in the News

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