Upcoming Events
Wednesday, Jan 31
Ocean Science Lecture Series:
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Cuba's Forbidden Depths: Permission Granted!
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|Presented by Shirley Pomponi | FAU Harbor Branch | 4:00 p.m
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Wednesday, Jan 31
Harbor Branch Immersion Tour | Ocean Discovery Visitors Center | 10:30 a.m. [
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Friday, Feb 2
Marine Science Fridays:
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Oh The Places They Go: Spotted Eagle Ray Movement Throughout Florida"
| Presented by Breanna DeGroot | Harbor Branch Ocean Discovery Visitors Center | 12:00 p.m. [
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Wednesday, Feb 7
Indian River Lagoon Boat Tour | Ocean Discovery Visitors Center | 10:00 a.m. [
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Thursday, Feb 8
Indian River Lagoon Poster Session | FAU Harbor Branch | 5:30 p.m. | No Registration Required [
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Friday, Feb 9
Thursday, Mar 15
Marine Science and Oceanography Graduate Program now accepting applications for Fall 2018 admission. Apply by March 15, 2018. [
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2017 Annual Impact Report Now Available
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The 2017 Annual Impact Report is
now available digitally here. The Report highlights the research, education and outreach efforts at Harbor Branch during FY17.
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R/V Hogarth Visits FAU Harbor Branch
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On January 19 students, staff and faculty enjoyed the opportunity to tour the R/V Hogarth while it was docked at FAU Harbor Branch's channel.
The ship is replacing the nearly 50-year-old R/V Bellows, which had a hand in educating thousands of Florida’s marine science and oceanography degree-seeking students during its time at sea. Students in FAU’s Semester by the Sea course, headquartered at Harbor Branch, will spend a week at sea aboard the R/V Hogarth next spring as part of their curriculum.
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Bonefish Restoration Research Project Induces Spawning in Wild Bonefish
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The
Bonefish Restoration Research Project
(BRRP), a major initiative sponsored by Bonefish & Tarpon Trust, has successfully induced spawning of wild bonefish and hatched the fertilized eggs into larvae. This is a first for this species, and a major step in the organization’s efforts to spawn and raise bonefish in captivity. The project, which is based at FAU Harbor Branch, achieved this milestone with assistance from Cape Eleuthera Institute from during field experiments earlier this month in the Bahamas.
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Study Finds Cause of Algal Blooms and the Results Stink
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Water samples gathered and tested in a year-long study provide multiple lines of evidence that human wastewater nitrogen from septic systems was a major contributor to the high nitrogen concentrations in the estuary and downstream coastal reefs.
“It has long been thought that the algal blooms found in Lake Okeechobee, which are caused by pollution such as runoffs from farms, were solely responsible for driving the blooms and their toxins in the St. Lucie Estuary,” said Brian E. Lapointe, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a research professor at FAU Harbor Branch. “We wanted to investigate the role of on-site septic systems, which have previously been overlooked.”
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NOAA Report Documents Amazing U.S. Deep-Sea Coral and Sponge Ecosystems
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NOAA’s new report,
State of Deep-Sea Coral and Sponge Ecosystems of the United States, explains advances in deep-sea coral research over the past decade and how this new information is shaping deep-sea conservation. Each of the report’s 13 peer-reviewed chapters was written by leading U.S. researchers, including a chapter each by FAU Harbor Branch's own John Reed and Shirley Pomponi, Ph.D..
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DNA ‘fingerprinting’ Helps Monitor Whale Numbers in Alaska
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FAU Harbor Branch’s Population Biology and Behavioral Ecology Program is using DNA ‘fingerprinting’ to monitor the population size of beluga whales in Alaska. There is increasing concern about the potential impact of climate change, oil and gas development and mining on the population.
Estimating abundance and monitoring trends has relied on aerial surveys which is both costly and prone to many sources of bias. By systematically collecting tiny tissue biopsies from free-swimming whales over several years and conducting the DNA ‘fingerprinting’ at the Harbor Branch lab, the team was able to estimate the size of the population from the frequency of ‘recaptured’ (i.e. re-sampled) individuals in their sample set. The study has established the method as an effective alternative approach to population monitoring of beluga whales worldwide and of other cetacean species.
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Automatic Classification of Grouper Vocalizations
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A soon to be published paper, entitled "An Approach for Automatic Classification of Grouper Vocalizations with Passive Acoustic Monitoring," describes a method to automate the detection and classification of courtship associated sounds produced by four species of groupers of the western tropical Atlantic Ocean. This method is based on machine-learning and voice recognition algorithms.
The method is currently being implemented on Harbor Branch's SV3 wave glider and for two years has been used to discover fish spawning aggregations in the Virgin Islands and Puerto-Rico.
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