Nearly 70 Â鶹ŮÀÉ Faculty Named Among World's Top 2% of Scientists
Nearly 70 Â鶹ŮÀÉ faculty are ranked among the world's top 2% of scientists by Stanford-Elsevier, recognizing their global research impact across 22 fields and 174 subfields from engineering to humanities.
Â鶹ŮÀÉ's Queen Conch Lab Receives Prestigious International Award
Â鶹ŮÀÉ Harbor Branch researchers have received the 2025 Responsible Seafood Innovation Award in Aquaculture from the Global Seafood Alliance for its Queen Conch Lab's pioneering work in sustainable aquaculture.
Â鶹ŮÀÉ Lands EPA Grant to Use Genetics in Florida Bay Sponge Restoration
Funded by the U.S. EPA, the project marks the first genetic assessment of sponge recovery in the region, with broad implications for ecosystem health and economically important species like the spiny lobster.
Decoding a Decade of Grouper Grunts Unlocks Spawning Secrets, Shifts
Â鶹ŮÀÉ researchers used 12 years of underwater audio to study red hind groupers, whose sounds reveal courtship, mating and territorial behavior - offering key clues to ocean changes through sound.
Â鶹ŮÀÉ's Amy Wright, Ph.D., Honored for Marine Drug Discovery Research
Â鶹ŮÀÉ Harbor Branch researcher Amy Wright, Ph.D., has received the prestigious Norman R. Farnsworth ASP Research Achievement Award, the highest accolade presented by the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP).
New Â鶹ŮÀÉ-USF Research Rewrites Origins of the World's First Pandemic
For the first time, Â鶹ŮÀÉ-USF researchers have found direct genomic evidence of the Plague of Justinian in the Eastern Mediterranean, where the world's first recorded pandemic began nearly 1,500 years ago.
Â鶹ŮÀÉ Tells 'Story' of Atlantic's Sargassum Surge Using 40 Years of Data
Â鶹ŮÀÉ Harbor Branch's landmark review reveals 40 years of change in pelagic sargassum - its growth, drivers and rising biomass across the North Atlantic, impacting the ocean's vital ecosystem.
Â鶹ŮÀÉ Publishes Initial Annual Report: Florida Office of Ocean Economy
Housed at Â鶹ŮÀÉ, the Florida Office of Ocean Economy was created to position the state as a global leader in ocean-linked industries and to build the foundation for a thriving ocean economy.
Spying on Stingrays: First-ever Tags Show Elusive Behaviors, Habitats
Â鶹ŮÀÉ Harbor Branch researchers are the first to successfully develop and field-test a multi-sensor biologging tag on the elusive whitespotted eagle ray, providing vital insights into their behavior.
Â鶹ŮÀÉ Receives $1M Grant to Study Gulf's Mesophotic Coral Habitats
Â鶹ŮÀÉ Harbor Branch researchers and collaborators will study how ocean currents and river nutrients affect deep coral ecosystems on the West Florida Shelf - one of the gulf's largest and least-studied habitats.