Written by Buster Thompson, Chronicle Reporter Anglers fish with hooks, lines, and sinkers to get their catch of the day. Biologists on the other hand use electrofishing to stun and collect their wild specimens, and state scientists needed ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Recreation, UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife
Written by 2021 UF/IFAS NCBS Summer Intern, Grace Hejmanowski Introduction This summer I had the opportunity to work with artificial oyster reefs and water quality in Cedar Key while interning for Dr. Mark Clark at NCBS. I also had the opportunity ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water, Wildlife
Written by 2021 UF/IFAS NCBS Summer Intern, Erik Van Dyke My Internship Experience This summer I was able to work with the Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) lab in Cedar Key. FIM uses standardized sampling methods to evaluate fish abundance, ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources, Recreation, Water, Wildlife
Written by 2021 UF/IFAS NCBS Summer Intern, Emilee Stump My name is Emilee Stump and this summer I interned in the Meyer Microbial Ecology Lab. Over the course of this internship, I researched the bacterial symbionts associated with marine ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife
Written by 2021 UF/IFAS NCBS Summer Intern, Chloe Aborgast This summer I had the opportunity to work with the University of Florida’s D.E.E.R Lab. The UF DEER Lab is a research lab that focuses on game species and habitat management. My role ... READ MORE
Category: Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife
Written by 2021 UF/IFAS NCBS Summer Intern, Annabel Schreiber This summer I had the opportunity to work in Dr. AJ Reisinger’s Urban Ecosystems Ecology lab with Ph.D. student Audrey Goeckner. Audrey’s research looks at dissolved nitrogen ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS Research, Water, Wildlife
Written by Audrey Looby, Ph.D. student, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Over the past three years, I have been spent days trying and at times failing to catch fish on a lake or watching videos of baby Florida bass swim around a tank, all in ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Research, Water, Wildlife
Written by Jamila Roth, Ph.D. student, UF/IFAS School of Natural Resources and Environment This summer, I spent many sunny hours on the small island of Sandy Hook in Crystal River, FL, where I was conducting a field experiment for my Ph.D. ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife
Written by Kate Rose, Graduate Student in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, UF IFAS School of Forestry, Fisheries & Geomatic Sciences There is perhaps no seafood as quintessential to the Florida experience as the Florida stone crab. This ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife
Written by 2021 UF/IFAS NCBS Summer Intern, Ashlyn Posey First, a thanks This summer I have had the opportunity to work with USGS’s Mike Randall and Melissa Price, under Principal Investigator Margaret Lamont, on sturgeon ecology and conservation. ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, UF/IFAS Research, Water, Wildlife