Month: January 2023

The Oyster is Adrian’s World: How Oyster Gardens Improve Water Filtration
January 31, 2023Small but mighty, oyster gardens enhance oyster recruitment, the process of incorporating new oysters into a population to maintain population sizes; improve water quality and have a valuable role to play in environmental education. Adrian Sakr, a graduate student in the Altieri and Angelini labs, is experimenting with five materials to determine which oyster garden […]
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Researchers awarded $2.5 million to expand harmful algal bloom research along Florida coasts
January 11, 2023A team of 11 professional researchers and scientists from the University of South Florida (USF), University of Florida (UF), and South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) were awarded a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to support the development of new state-of-the-art water quality data and models to better predict and […]
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