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FSU expert: Third consecutive La Niña could bring more hurricanes

Published: September 20, 2022 | 8:42 am | Posted in: Expert Pitches

Meteorologists predict current La Niña conditions will persist this year through a third consecutive winter, a situation that usually brings a more active late hurricane season, followed by a dry and warm fall and winter across Florida. La Niña is the popular name for a phase of what meteorologists call the “El Niño-Southern Oscillation,” or […]

World Oceans Day: FSU researcher shares insight into importance of the ocean

Published: June 6, 2022 | 12:19 pm | Posted in: Expert Pitches

The United Nations marks June 8 as World Oceans Day, an opportunity to celebrate the ocean and how it supports life on Earth. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

The United Nations marks June 8 as World Oceans Day, an opportunity to celebrate the ocean and how it supports life on Earth. As director of Florida State University’s Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS), Eric Chassignet leads investigations into the physical processes that govern the ocean and its interactions with the atmosphere. He spoke […]

FSU-led research team receives $9M from National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to improve forecasts of ocean currents

Published: April 4, 2022 | 11:15 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

Florida State University researchers have received nearly $9 million from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program to improve predictions of water currents in the Gulf of Mexico that impact critical oil and gas infrastructure, fisheries management, and extreme weather events as well as the spread of ocean pollution. The five-year […]

FSU researchers uncover new role for strange organisms in ocean food web

Published: May 19, 2021 | 11:18 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

An example of a chain of salps floating in the ocean. (Photo by Lars Plougmann)

Florida State University researchers have more insight into a strange sea creature found in oceans around the world and what their presence means for the health of a marine ecosystem. Scientists have thought that salps — small marine organisms that look like clear, gelatinous blobs — competed for resources with krill, shrimp-like creatures that are […]

FSU researchers develop tool to track marine litter polluting the ocean

Published: April 28, 2021 | 12:15 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

A screenshot from a virtual tool developed by the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies to track marine litter. The colored lines show the path of debris in the ocean. from a virtual tool developed by the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies to track marine litter.

In an effort to fight the millions of tons of marine litter floating in the ocean, Florida State University researchers have developed a new virtual tool to track this debris. Their work, which was published in Frontiers in Marine Science, will help provide answers to help monitor and deal with the problem of marine litter. […]

FSU experts available to comment on United States and the Paris Agreement

Published: October 27, 2020 | 4:03 pm | Posted in: Expert Pitches

Jeff Chanton, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor and John Widmer Winchester Professor of Oceanography, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science. (FSU Photography Services)

Carbon emissions and climate change were key issues in the past presidential election. Newly inaugurated President Joe Biden has said he will sign an executive order to rejoin the Paris Agreement— an international accord with the goal of limiting global climate change that the United States left on Nov. 4, 2020. Florida State University has […]

Rapid weather swings increase flu risk

Published: January 30, 2020 | 9:42 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

New research from a team of Florida State University scientists shows that rapid weather variability as a result of climate change could increase the risk of a flu epidemic in some highly populated regions in the late 21st century. The research was published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Zhaohua Wu, an associate professor […]

NASA awards researchers $1.7M grant to develop tools to help Florida water utilities allocate resources

Published: May 15, 2019 | 2:17 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

FSU researchers and collaborators from throughout the state will develop new products that help regional utilities account for climate variation when making important decisions about resource allocation. (Credit: Mark Averette)

Researchers from Florida State University, in partnership with a network of scientists and stakeholders from throughout the state, have been awarded a $1.7 million grant from NASA to develop cutting-edge climate prediction tools that could benefit Florida water supply utilities. Florida State climate experts and their collaborators will use NASA Earth Science satellite and modeling […]

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