Each morning after my 4-8am shift I would have breakfast and then sit on the bow to look at the Deep Blue. I would scan the horizon for what was out there – may be another boat or ship – and then lean over the bow to peer into the Deep ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural ResourcesWhen one thinks of the motion of the ocean one immediately thinks of waves. We will discuss waves in another part of this series, but here we are going to focus on the water movement beneath the waves. Unconsciously – subconsciously ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources
Part of the 2019 UF IFAS social media survey across Florida found that many Floridians understood how septic systems worked, but fewer understood how sewer systems functioned. This article is going to try and tell you the basics of how sewage ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources, WaterWater within the Deep Blue is not something that most people think about when they are out there. Other questions like – “how deep is it?” “What’s on the bottom?” “I wonder what kind of fish are out here.” Are the typical ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural ResourcesFor centuries humans have been interested in what is on the bottom of the sea. Stories and legends arose of mermaids and magical cities like Atlantis. From the science side of things, the interest was there as well. In the mid-nineteenth ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources
What is it? Coral reef scientists in the Caribbean recently released a paper cataloging the spread of a new invader on Venezuelan coral reefs: an Indo-Pacific soft coral or octocoral. This species, categorized as Unomia stolonifera, is ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural ResourcesEarly in the morning of Day 1 of the cruise the water of the open Gulf of Mexico was like glass. There were no ripples on the surface, but it was rolling with small swells. The water was colored a deep cobalt blue – the Deep Blue of the ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural ResourcesEver since my father gave me a dive mask when I was in the 5th grade, I knew what I wanted to do for a career. I placed the mask on and went into what I called “the drop-off” in Santa Rosa Sound (it was probably 10 feet deep – but to ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources
Written by Ashley McDonald, Biological Scientist at UF/IFAS NCBS What's a Fish Slam? NCBS staff researcher (Ashley McDonald) and master’s student (Zoey Hendrickson) were two of dozens of biologists from 12 organizations that congregated ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources, Recreation, , Water, Wildlife
Sustainable development goal 14 is to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development” or as it is shortened “life below water”. 1 According to the United States Geological Survey “about ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Natural Resources, Water, Wildlife