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1 University of South Florida College of Marine Science th Avenue South Saint Petersburg, Florida Dr. William Hogarth, Dean

2 The College of Marine Science is a GRADUATE RESEARCH program where faculty, research staff, and graduate students work side-by-side to solve global problems of the oceans and the atmosphere. The College of Marine Science is the only academic college at USF that does OT have departments we work in multiple multi-and interdisciplinary research teams.

3 The College of Marine Science has biologists, chemists, engineers geologists, mathematicians physicists, computer modelers, and technologists all working in interdisciplinary teams. Our graduate students work closely with great faculty members.

4 Our graduate students give presentations at national and international meetings. Our graduate students work with extremely high tech equipment (not shown!)

5 Our graduate students get really immersed in their research. Our graduate students frequently go to sea on research vessels.

6 Our graduate students use underwater habitats. The College of Marine Science has a very strong education and outreach program

7 The College of Marine Science is one of the few oceanography programs in the US that has an engineering group working hand-inglove with faculty and graduate students. The engineers and technologists in our Center for Ocean Technology create state-of-the-art sensors not found at any other oceanographic institution.

8 The College of Marine Science maintains an ocean observing system of buoys armed with sensors to detect environmental change for all to use. The College of Marine Science maintains a network of sensors in Tampa Bay to prevent ships from colliding with each other and striking bridges.

9 The College of Marine Science has a new major research vessel the R/V Weatherbird II College of Marine Science researchers have a global reach. Our scientists have worked in every ocean on Earth.

10 We work on global-scale problems such as climate change, sea-level rise, and ocean acidification. Our scientists are studying global climate change issues.

11 Our scientists are studying the linkages between the two largest fluid bodies on Earth. Scientists from the College study the Earth s past from the earliest forms of life to the recent.

12 Scientists from the College of Marine Science understand past climates from examining deep-sea cores Our scientists study life in the ocean from tiny microbes to large marine mammals. A nm is a billionth of a meter (39.36 inches)

13 Our scientists are examining global ocean circulation. Our scientists examine global ocean and atmospheric interactions.

14 We study issues such as global sea-level changes using satellites Florida during the last ice age

15 Florida 125,000 years ago during the last interglacial period maybe Florida in the next 150 years? Future of Florida s coastline?

16 But, we focus on problems in our own backyard as well. Did you know that the deepest coral reef in the US is just offshore Florida s coastline?

17 The Loop Current just offshore strongly affects Florida. We are predicting when red tides will occur

18 We study problems that affect all Floridians. The grouper/snapper alone is a $36 million industry in Florida (landings revenue) with economic impact of the total commercial fishing industry for the state valued at $2.9 billion in 2006.

19 We are trying to understand why coral reefs are dying With ~3 billion more humans arriving by the year 2100, the College of Marine Science is heavily invested in understanding the coastal ocean.

20 Did you know that 50% of the world s population lives within 100 miles of an ocean?? And, the coastal ocean is important to many other organisms

21 The ocean is enormously complex The oceans cover 73% of the Earth s surface

22 Less than 5% of the ocean has been explored Most of the oxygen we breathe came from the ocean process of photosynthesis growing phytoplankton.

23 Did you know that more people have stood on the surface of the moon than have been to the deepest part of the ocean? The tallest mountain on Earth is in the ocean nearly a mile higher than Mount Everest!

24 The ocean has a steep, high-relief seafloor Florida once was located at the South Pole!

25 Florida was once part of Africa. Earth interior processes affect the atmosphere and oceans

26 The ocean is a major influence on weather and climate. Melting of ice sheets is a huge concern top of Greenland.

27 Sea level has changed dramatically in the geologic past sea level was 1,000 ft higher 100,000,000 years ago. Extraterrestrial bodies affect life on Earth

28 Research on the high seas is exciting! Our graduate students represent the next generation of scientists to solve the next generation of problems!

29 A sunrise on a bright future for the College of Marine Science