Marine Science

Local masters student Susannah Cogburn receives $5,000 as a research stipend from the Guy Harvey Foundation for marine research.

The Water School at FGCU recently deployed a new artificial reef complex eight miles off shore from the county line between Collier and Lee. While WGCU is producing a documentary about the reef and the scientific research it hopes to study, we will keep folks informed of the progress of the reef (past and present) with Dispatches from Kimberly’s Reef. Here is the third dispatch which tells how the FGCU reef team hired a marine construction company to make the reef a reality for the fall of 2022.

Diving explorer and medical researcher Dr. Joseph Dituri surfaced Friday after living underwater for 100 days while carrying out a scientific research mission in a Florida Keys marine habitat.Dituri set a new record for the longest time living underwater at ambient pressure while residing in the Jules’ Undersea Lodge habitat in Key Largo, eclipsing the previous record of 73 days that was set in 2014 at the same location.

Florida Gulf Coast University began installing the base of its new artificial reef, named Kimberly’s Reef, in the Gulf of Mexico. Groups of concrete culverts will create an 11-acre underwater laboratory for scientific experimentation and research.

Florida Gulf Coast University’s most prestigious building to open in its 25-year history — The Water School — has had its grand opening and is now helping students learn and experiment in marine science labs with state-of-the-art equipment that rival much larger universities.

Back in 2017, the Florida Aquarium teamed up with the Horniman Museum and Gardens in London to embark on a project to save coral reefs by predictably…

Back in 2014, 12 coral species received protection under the Endangered Species Act, but they still have not received the critical habitat protection the…

The practice of shark finning — removing a shark’s dorsal fin and discarding the animal’s body back into the water — has been in the political spotlight…

The folks who work at the Guy Harvey Research Institute at Nova Southeastern University are hoping that people will come to understand the critical link...

A mass bleaching of coral reefs worldwide is finally easing after three years, U.S. scientists announced Monday. About three-quarters of the world's...