Stunning Discovery Finds Bonefish Dive 'Deep' into the Abyss to Spawn
Using active acoustic telemetry and sonar data, ¼ø»Æʦapp Harbor Branch scientists and collaborators are the first to track a shallow water fish diving 450 feet deep to spawn and provide detailed documentation.
Endangered Juvenile Smalltooth Sawfish Found in St. Lucie River
¼ø»Æʦapp Harbor Branch and FWC scientists successfully caught, tagged and released a juvenile smalltooth sawfish in the Indian River Lagoon - a major step for sawfish research and recovery efforts in Florida.
It's Not Too Late to Cast Your Vote...For Best ¼ø»Æʦapp Research Images
¼ø»Æʦapp is giving everyone the chance to cast their votes (again), but this time for the best images captured by its researchers in a contest that highlights work from across all of ¼ø»Æʦapp's 10 colleges.
Study First to Show Relationship between a Bird's Gut and its Brain
¼ø»Æʦapp scientists studied songbirds' gut microbiome and have identified potentially critical bacteria affecting cognition and performance.
Scientists are First in the World to Spawn Bonefish in Captivity
¼ø»Æʦapp Harbor Branch and Bonefish & Tarpon Trust have reached a groundbreaking milestone in fish reproduction research by successfully inducing captive bonefish to spawn in aquaculture tanks.
Novel Study First to Tally Biomass from Oceanic Plastic Debris
¼ø»Æʦapp Harbor Branch scientists and collaborators have obtained a quantitative number for biomass from oceanic plastic debris using a novel visualization method that provides the first estimate of its kind.
Gulf of Mexico Mission: 'Ocean Blue Holes Are Not Created Equal'
A team of scientists from ¼ø»Æʦapp's Harbor Branch and collaborators recently explored the depths of the "Green Banana" Blue Hole thanks to gutsy scuba divers and an innovative 500-pound autonomous benthic lander.
¼ø»Æʦapp Lands $11 Million Contract from U.S. Office of Naval Research
¼ø»Æʦapp's Harbor Branch has landed an $11,179,001 contract from the U.S. Office of Naval Research to develop a next-generation bathyphotometer sensor for natural oceanic bioluminescence assessments.
Scientists Catalogue Shark and Ray Distribution in Florida Lagoon
¼ø»Æʦapp Harbor Branch researchers conducted the first long-term, in-depth analysis of the elasmobranch community in the southern Indian River Lagoon, categorizing 630 individuals of 16 species.
¼ø»Æʦapp Awarded $2.2 Million to Monitor Algal Blooms in Lake Okeechobee
A scientist from ¼ø»Æʦapp's Harbor Branch received a grant from Florida's Department of Environmental Protection to develop a sensing and visualization package to monitor harmful algal blooms in Lake Okeechobee.