Tag: Florida Keys

UF/IFAS, The Florida Aquarium collaborate to revitalize coral reefs, marine habitats

by Brad Buck
November 21, 2024

Coral reefs serve as habitats for fish, increase tourism activities and reduce wave energy – among their many benefits. That’s why scientists with the University of Florida and The Florida Aquarium’s Coral Conservation and Research ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine
Tags: Broodstrock, Coral, Coral Reefs, Fish, Florida Keys, Florida Sea Grant, Habitats, Josh Patterson, Partnership, Reproduction, Restoration Aquaculture, School Of Forest Fisheries And Geomatics Sciences, Scuba, Sea Urchins, The Florida Aquarium, The Florida Aquarium’s Coral Conservation And Research Center, Tourism

UF scientists find good places to grow long-spined sea urchins, a starting point to restore ‘the lawn mowers of the reefs’

by Brad Buck
September 12, 2023

Scientists call long-spined sea urchins “the lawn mowers of the reefs” because they eat algae that could otherwise smother reef ecosystems and kill corals. That’s why researchers affiliated with the University of Florida Tropical Aquaculture ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Aaron Pilnick, Caribbean, Coral Reefs, Florida Aquarium Conservation Campus, Florida Keys, Florida Sea Grant, Josh Patterson, Juvenile, Larva, Long-spined Sea Urchins, School Of Forest Fisheries And Geomatics Sciences, Sea Urchins, Settlement, Substrate, Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory

Study: Sea level rise shifts habitat for endangered Keys species

by Kirsten Romaguera Rabin
August 1, 2023

A newly published study in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation describes the response to sea level rise by an endangered species only found in the Florida Keys. The silver rice rat moved to higher elevations at a greater ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, UF/IFAS Research, Water, Wildlife
Tags: Department Of Wildlife Ecology And Conservation, Endangered Species, Endemic Species, Florida Keys, Rats, Robert McCleery, UF/IFAS Wildlife Ecology And Conservation

UF researchers surprised to find microplastics in Florida Keys lagoons

by Kirsten Romaguera Rabin
April 14, 2021

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Researchers conducting a planned University of Florida-led study on plankton in two lagoons of the Florida Keys stumbled upon an unexpected presence in the course of their routine sampling: microplastics. A new publication ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Research, Water
Tags: Ed Phlips, Florida Keys, Microplastics, Research, School Of Forest Fisheries And Geomatics Sciences

Florida Sea Grant helped save Keys lobster industry nearly $4 million after Hurricane Irma

by Samantha Murray
April 12, 2018

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Hurricane Irma displaced more than 150,000 spiny lobster traps in the Florida Keys last year, sometimes miles away from their original locations. But a novel eyes-in-the-sky solution has saved the industry nearly $4 million, ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: Florida Keys, Florida Sea Grant, Hurricane Irma, News, Spiny Lobster

Florida Sea Grant helps Keys lobstermen get back on feet after Irma

by Brad Buck
September 25, 2017

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Hurricane Irma has had a major impact on Florida’s largest commercial fishery, displacing and damaging tens of thousands of spiny lobster traps in the Florida Keys. Florida Sea Grant is helping lobstermen by quickly locating ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Economics, Florida Keys, Florida Sea Grant, Lobsters, News, Planes, Shelly Krueger, Traps

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