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, […]
Coastlines and Oceans Divsion
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 […]
Family Science Night at The Academy at Ocean Reef
The Center for Coastal Oceans Research recently hosted a Family Science Night at the Academy at Ocean Reef in Key […]
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 […]
Coral reef restoration and conservation efforts
Pillar corals may be locally extinct in Florida in five years. Recent PhD graduate, Cindy Lewis discusses the importance of […]
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 […]
CCOR Travel Award Winners – Spring 2019
We are pleased to announce the seven recipients of the Center for Coastal Oceans Research (CCOR) travel awards for the early 2019 […]
Aquarius Resurfaced: Ecology of fear in plant-eating coral reef fish
In November 2013, during FIU’s first Aquarius mission, researchers used fiberglass models of predatory fish to study how the risk of predation […]
Ocean center welcomes new education coordinator
When she’s not teaching youngsters about the importance of our marine environment for the Center for Coastal Oceans Research, Analisa Duran can […]
Water institute presents graduate students with annual award
Each year, the leadership committee for the three centers at the Institute of Water and Environment decides the graduate students of […]
