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USF geoscientists deploy to study evacuation behavior ahead of Hurricane Ian

As the Tampa Bay region prepares for Hurricane Ian, a team of researchers is on the road to collect data on how individuals respond in a natural disaster.

September 26, 2022Research

Twenty-six USF faculty members recognized with Outstanding Research Achievement Awards

USF’s Outstanding Research Achievement Awards recognize 26 faculty members—the largest group to date—for their important achievements. Two featured are from the School of Geoscience, Jennifer Collins and Ambe Njoh.

August 26, 2022Honors and Awards

Jalessa Blackshear, who works as a community organizer, is helping professors from the ÉîÒ¹¿´Æ¬â€™s St. Petersburg campus’ Initiative on Coastal Adaptation and Resilience (iCAR) organize a July 12 town hall in south St. Petersburg in the hopes of creating a network of assistance in the event of a disaster.

July 6, 2022Community Engagement

Hidden in caves: Mineral overgrowths reveal unprecedented modern sea-level rise

The early 1900s were an exciting time across the world, with rapid advances in the steel, electric and automobile industries. The industrial changes also mark an inflection point in our climate.

June 30, 2022Research

Florida's state shell at higher risk of extinction than previously thought

The Florida horse conch population – one of the world’s largest invertebrate animals – is shrinking. Established in 1969 as the Florida state shell with a record length of two feet, it has become symbolic of Florida’s natural resources and widely used in advertising for the state’s tourism industry.

April 6, 2022Research

Barnali Dixon, a professor of geosciences and the co-director of the Initiative on Coastal Adaptation and Resilience (iCAR), who ranked 461 in the field of geography out of a total of 51,126.

March 7, 2022Honors and Awards

Growing up traveling the world with her parents, professor of the School of Geosciences and Director of the Institute on Black Life (IBL) Fenda Akiwumi leads with a holistic perspective of different cultures.

February 7, 2022Community Engagement

Ten USF faculty members receive national recognition as AAAS Fellows for academic research

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named 10 ÉîÒ¹¿´Æ¬ researchers as new Fellows, including a College of Education associate professor who will become the university’s first Black faculty member to receive one of the world’s most prestigious honors for academic research.

January 26, 2022Honors and Awards

When the pandemic shut down Jason Gulley's travels, he shifted his attention to caves in his own backyard. Instead of rappelling a few hundred feet down vertical shafts in splintering ice, he swims deep inside underwater caverns in the porous limestone of the giant Floridan aquifer to document their failing health.

September 14, 2021Research

USF Geosciences Professor Jennifer Collins Elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society

An internationally renowned hurricane expert, Dr. Collins’ research and teaching accomplishments are lauded by the prestigious international organization.

August 31, 2021Honors and Awards

Seagrass beds along Florida’s east coast have collapsed, wiping out an important manatee food source. With nothing to eat, scientists are racing to save this gentle marine mammal.

August 26, 2021Research

22 USF Faculty Members Recognized with Outstanding Research Achievement Awards

One USF researcher brings dinosaurs to life through augmented reality while a colleague explores the origins of life through planetary chemistry. This one of just a few of the faculty research achievements newly recognized with USF’s Outstanding Research Achievement Awards.

August 16, 2021Honors and Awards