Sponges are becoming the dominant habitat-forming organism on Caribbean reefs as corals continue to decline because of environmental stressors like […]
Aquanauts who participate in NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) at Aquarius Reef Base are on the cutting edge of […]
The Center for Coastal Oceans Research at Florida International University and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary are searching for […]
Last week Dr. John Berry, associate professor within the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, did a talk at the Ocean […]
During NEEMO XX, a fourteen-day mission aboard Aquarius, the aquanaut team assisted researchers from FIU’s IMaGeS Lab in the collection of […]
Dr. James Fourqurean, the Director of FIU’s Center for Coastal Oceans Research (CCOR) and member of the International Blue Carbon […]
In November 2013, during FIU’s first Aquarius mission, researchers used fiberglass models of predatory fish to study how the risk […]
Commercial, professional and scientific divers often need to work in remote areas where they are isolated from hospitals that can […]
Anyone who has ever conducted fieldwork knows that sometimes things do not go according to plan. Being prepared for the […]
Hurricane Irma roared through the Florida Keys last September causing substantial damage on land and at sea. Five miles off […]