Department of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Science

FSU experts available to comment on geochemical effects of Saharan dust cloud

Published: July 1, 2020 | 1:25 pm

More dust from the Sahara Desert is forecast to come to the United States this week. The massive dust plume […]

Published: June 26, 2020 | 3:04 pm

Thank goodness for the Earth’s crust: It is, after all, that solid, outermost layer of our planet that supports everything […]

Published: June 1, 2020 | 12:23 pm

Editor’s note: The photographs of loggerhead sea turtles were taken during research activities permitted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife […]

Published: May 26, 2020 | 12:20 pm

Rising junior Jonathan Marcus is the latest Florida State University student to receive an Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship from […]

Published: May 18, 2020 | 12:54 pm

A Florida State University researcher has used new detection methods to identify 85 previously unknown submarine landslides that occurred in […]

Published: May 13, 2020 | 2:27 pm

You’ve probably seen the satellite images that show a hurricane developing: thick white clouds clumping together, arms spinning around a […]

Published: May 6, 2020 | 11:05 am

When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig suffered a blowout in 2010 and began spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico, […]

Published: April 20, 2020 | 6:44 pm

A Florida State University professor whose work has been fundamental in understanding the climate of Africa has been named the […]

Published: April 16, 2020 | 12:04 pm

A Canada-based company has licensed technology created by a Florida State University researcher that can monitor ocean surface currents and […]

Published: April 8, 2020 | 12:44 pm

As people around the world isolate in their homes to prevent the spread of COVID-19, research indicates there may be some […]

Published: March 20, 2020 | 2:02 pm

A previously unknown and significant source of carbon just discovered in the Arctic has scientists both marveling at a once […]

Published: March 5, 2020 | 2:17 pm

As the ice sheet covering most of Greenland retreats, Florida State University researchers are studying the newly revealed landscape to […]