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°®åú´«Ã½ Seeks Participants for Study on Effects of Harmful Algal Blooms

By | March 20, 2023

°®åú´«Ã½ Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute researchers are currently seeking participants for a study evaluating potential impacts of exposure to harmful algal blooms.

°®åú´«Ã½ Receives $2.8 Million Gift for Queen Conch Farm in Grand Bahama

By | March 14, 2023

°®åú´«Ã½'s Harbor Branch has received a $2.8 million gift to establish a queen conch hatchery in Grand Bahama. The project is built on a network of collaborators to secure local support and collaboration.

Does Current Shellfish Culture Gear Curb 'Crunching' Rays?

By | March 7, 2023

Marine rays like to "crunch" on clams, which can sometimes take a big bite out of clammers' profits. °®åú´«Ã½ Harbor Branch researchers assessed the efficacy of anti-predator materials on whitespotted eagle rays.

°®åú´«Ã½ Lands U.S. EPA Grant for 'Hands-on' Indian River Lagoon Field Trip

By | February 24, 2023

°®åú´«Ã½ Harbor Branch has received a $399,963 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) South Florida Initiative Program to support a new Indian River Lagoon field trip program.

°®åú´«Ã½'s Andia Chaves Fonnegra, Ph.D., Lands Coveted NSF CAREER Award

By | February 13, 2023

With a five-year, $974,100 NSF grant, Andia Chaves Fonnegra, Ph.D., will develop fundamental ecological research to understand the functional ecology and biodiversity patterns in sponge-dominated coral reefs.

Study Resolves 50-Year Dispute of Teleost Fishes Ancestral Lineage

By | February 10, 2023

°®åú´«Ã½ Harbor Branch's Sahar Mejri, Ph.D., is among a team of scientists to use genome mapping to demonstrate sister groups from a common evolutionary ancestor.

°®åú´«Ã½ Study Finds Low Salinity Can Work to Culture Florida Pompano Fish

By | December 5, 2022

°®åú´«Ã½ Harbor Branch researchers are the first to conduct a low salinity study on Florida pompano to determine the optimal salinity required to culture juvenile fish from hatch to weaning under on-farm conditions.

Researchers Inducted into °®åú´«Ã½ Chapter of National Academy of Inventors

By | November 28, 2022

Four °®åú´«Ã½ researchers representing engineering, medicine, science and Harbor Branch will be inducted into the °®åú´«Ã½ Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors®.

Harmful Algal Toxins Found in Bull Sharks in the Indian River Lagoon

By | November 17, 2022

°®åú´«Ã½ Harbor Branch researchers are the first to measure multiple baseline concentrations of phycotoxins from harmful algal blooms in bull sharks from Florida's Indian River Lagoon.

°®åú´«Ã½ Lands U.S. Department of Defense Grant for Powerful Imaging Tool

By | November 1, 2022

Researchers have received a $599,503 grant from the United States Department of Defense for a powerful high resolution imaging technique that can reveal nanoscale structures.

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