Seafood at your Fingertips Live!, hosted live on Facebook by Florida Sea Grant, is a new video series of seafood-centric cooking demonstrations that provides step-by-step guidance for selecting and preparing seafood in Florida. Viewers learn from UF/IFAS Florida Sea Grant
By: Libby Carnahan, 727-453-6522, [email protected] and Armando Ubeda, 941-861-9900, [email protected] Florida is often referred to as the fishing capital of the world, making it unsurprising that Floridians eat nearly twice as much seafood as consumers in the rest of the nation. However, like
Gray Vickery is one of Florida’s incoming 2022 Knauss Marine Policy Fellows. At the University of South Florida, Vickery pursued an M.S. degree in Environmental Science and Policy. He worked within the USF Coastal Research Laboratory on various coastal management
Gray Vickery is one of Florida’s incoming 2022 Knauss Marine Policy Fellows. At the University of South Florida, Vickery pursued an M.S. degree in Environmental Science and Policy. He worked within the USF Coastal Research Laboratory on various coastal management
Some of the nation’s top experts in harmful algal blooms (HABs) have released a consensus document detailing research needs to most effectively combat future blooms in Florida. The document, recently published on the Florida Sea Grant website and entitled “State of the
With red tide in southwest Florida giving us a reprieve, it’s a good time to think about the future. Red tides have occurred in Florida 57 of the last 66 years, so we should expect future events. But a red tide shouldn’t
Red tide is an example of a harmful algal bloom, or HAB. The majority of HAB species are phytoplankton (floating algae, mostly single-celled). However, they also include some tiny microalgae that live attached to plants or other substrates as well
The University of Florida and the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences regret to announce that Karl E. Havens, the director of the Florida Sea Grant program since 2007 and a professor of aquatic ecology at the University, died
Maurizio Martinelli, a former national coral reef management fellow with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, has been named Florida Sea Grant’s coral disease response coordinator. In his new role, Martinelli will be steering the state’s collective response to stony
Sekita Grant, a lawyer who focuses on climate change and social justice issues, has been named the first Florida Sea Grant Conservation Clinic Legal Fellow. The Florida Sea Grant Conservation Clinic Fellowship brings added legal capacity to the UF Law Conservation
For decades, Florida Sea Grant has supported undergraduate and graduate students through scholarships, fellowships and research assistantships. Because of our unique ability to access some of the top up-and-coming scientists, Florida Sea Grant partners with the Florida Outdoor Writers Association to find
As part of a 2018 Sea Grant National Aquaculture Initiative to support the advancement of aquaculture in the U.S., two Florida Sea Grant researchers have been awarded more than $1 million by NOAA Sea Grant for projects in both fish and shellfish farming. The two
Marine Aquaponics With Florida Sea Grant Funds, Kevan Main, director of Mote’s Aquaculture Research Program and her team have developed a prototype marine aquaponics system to expand production of marine fish and sea vegetables in Florida. Aquaponics is a type of
By Betty Staugler, Florida Sea Grant Agent with UF/IFAS Extension in Charlotte County Update 10/2/2018 — The information presented below pertains to the red tide bloom on the southwest coast of Florida. Red tide is now also occurring along the Panhandle and
Florida Sea Grant and the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation have created a new course for the Florida Master Naturalist Program that teaches Floridians about building “living shorelines.” Living shorelines is a catch-all phrase describing shorelines protected from erosion by plantings of natural materials
