Articles by: Catherine Guinovart

Continuing Education Course: Flora and Fauna of the Florida Keys

Continuing Education Course: Flora and Fauna of the Florida Keys

This listing has expired. View current opportunities here. The Center for Coastal Ocean Research’s Flora and Fauna of the Florida […]

Journey to becoming a Diver Medical Technician

Journey to becoming a Diver Medical Technician

Experts from the Medina Aquarius Program worked with World Extreme Medicine to train a group of six physicians from around the world to become […]

Astronauts test navy diver AR displays at Aquarius

Astronauts test navy diver AR displays at Aquarius

Navy divers face many challenges when working underwater – from zero-visibility to low-gravity – all while trying to remember complex […]

Aquarius program offers course with World Extreme Medicine

Aquarius program offers course with World Extreme Medicine

The Medina Aquarius Program has partnered with World Extreme Medicine to offer a unique course, Hyperbaric Medicine and Saturation Diving, designed to […]

Light, color, vision and the Underwater World

Light, color, vision and the Underwater World

Animals around the world, from squids to chameleons to octopus, have developed unique adaptations that allow them to change colors […]

Aquarius Resurfaced: Caribbean sponge communities structured by top-down effects

Aquarius Resurfaced: Caribbean sponge communities structured by top-down effects

Sponges are becoming the dominant habitat-forming organism on Caribbean reefs as corals continue to decline because of environmental stressors like […]

Aquanaut Hervé Stevenin – from Aquarius to Gateway

Aquanaut Hervé Stevenin – from Aquarius to Gateway

Aquanauts who participate in NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) at Aquarius Reef Base are on the cutting edge of exploration technology. Hervé Stevenin, […]

Fishing for toxins

Fishing for toxins

Last week Dr. John Berry, associate professor within the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, did a talk at the Ocean Life Lecture […]

Aquarius Resurfaced: Microbial diversity in massive starlet coral

Aquarius Resurfaced: Microbial diversity in massive starlet coral

During NEEMO XX, a fourteen-day mission aboard Aquarius, the aquanaut team assisted researchers from FIU’s IMaGeS Lab in the collection of samples used […]

Dr. James Fourqurean: Saving seagrass to save the planet

Dr. James Fourqurean: Saving seagrass to save the planet

Dr. James Fourqurean, the Director of FIU’s Center for Coastal Oceans Research and member of the International Blue Carbon Initiative, a […]