Highlights

Thursday, 06 January 2022

From Road to Table: tire particle impacts on fish species

Contamination from roadways and runoff have long been cause for concern, but a recently identified breakdown product of tires - called 6PPD-quinone - has been raising alarms ever since its toxicity to salmon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest was discovered early...

Monday, 03 January 2022

Friends of the ARK (FOTA) Donates $100,000

2021 cumulated with a big bang for the Amos Rehabilitation Keep (ARK). The non-profit Friends of the ARK (FOTA), raised $100,000 over the course of nine months and presented the check to the ARK just before the holidays. The funds will...

Monday, 20 December 2021

UT Leadership Comes to the Coast

The University of Texas at Austin leadership, including President Jay Hartzell, Executive Vice President and Provost Sharon Wood, Vice President for Research Dan Jaffe, Dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies Brent Iverson and College of Natural Sciences Dean David Vanden...

Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Fun Facts You Never Knew About Coral Reefs

We celebrate this Coral Week, November 28-December 4 with discoveries made about coral reefs and the fish that surround them by our Marine Science Institute researchers.     Similar to cryptocurrency, tiny fish called crypotbethics are fueling coral reefs Little known...

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Rare box jelly that packs a sting is found in Port Aransas

Scientific observations can happen when you least expect it. Dr. Brad Gemmell, a visiting alumni and Associate Professor at University of South Florida, and his mentor Dr. Edward Buskey, Interim Director at The University of Texas Marine Science Institute, were strolling...