Topic: Marine Biology and Ecology
Welcoming students to a new reality
A new application for students offered through First Year Directions classes at the University of Miami gives them a chance to experience unique campus activities virtually.
The corals of the future
A Rosenstiel School research team recently imported dozens of live corals from Tela Bay, Honduras, known for its warm and murky waters, to breed them with Florida corals in an effort to make more resilient offspring.
Matchmaking scientists look to Honduras for new coral parents to help Florida’s reefs survive climate change
Historic coral breeding effort marks new era in coral research and reef restoration
Previously uncharacterized parasite uncovered in fish worldwide
Using genome reconstruction, scientists unveiled a once “invisible” fish parasite present in many marine fish world-wide that belongs to one of the most important groups of parasites at a clinical level. However, it had gone unnoticed in previous studies. The parasite is geographically and taxonomically widespread in fish species around the planet, with implications for commercial fishing and oceanic food webs.
University of Miami, Royal Caribbean Group, and Inter Miami CF team up to bring 'Coral Gardening' to South Florida community
University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science’s Rescue a Reef coral restoration program celebrates World Ocean Day with a new coral restoration site creating over a thousand coral colonies
