Category: Tech Dive

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research & Communications Coordinator Lea Eggensberger said that to understand the type of sediment lying at the bottom of a body of water, sometimes you have to poke it. That’s a very simple way of describing how the modular penetrometer, or ModPen, works. The ModPen is a tool developed by […]

A University of Florida doctoral student is using underwater sound recordings to study how fish communities move through connected coastal habitats at St. Martin’s Marsh Aquatic Preserve on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Finella Campinino, a doctoral student in the lab of Laura Reynolds, an associate professor in UF’s Coastal Ecology Program, is leading the project at […]