Are you interested in science and want to learn more about fishes, birds, butterflies, or how to survive a tsunami? If so, our free public lectures at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute’s facilities in Port Aransas and Rockport will...
If you are interested in learning more about Southern Flounder and where they go throughout their lives, check out the feature article in the Coastal Conservation Association TIDE Magazine. The article was written by Megan K. Nims, who recently completed her...
UTMSI's educational programs are the lead feature in this month's Texas Co-op Power magazine. Check it out http://www.texascooppower.com/texas-stories/nature-outdoors/immersed-in-learning
About Texas Co-op Power: Bringing Texas Home Since 1944In 1944, the first issue of Texas Co-op Power magazine rolled off the presses. The...
PORT ARANSAS, Texas – Weddell seals routinely dive for 20 minutes at a time and travel up to a mile from where they started before returning to their breathing hole in the ice covered waters of Antarctica. How they find that...
At the recent International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) meeting in Okinawa, Japan, Science and Conservation of Fish Aggregations (SCRFA) and the ICRI Ad Hoc Committee of Reef Associated Fisheries launched the most up to date information with a report on how...
Local elected officials and planners met on December 11th at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute to discuss resiliency needs and tools for planning in your area. The forum was hosted by the Texas General Land Office and the Mission-Aransas...
Last week UTMSI staff, students and friends celebrated the holidays in their 4th Annual Library Arts and Crafts Holiday Party. The art theme this year was marine debris and the UTMSI Green Team sponsored an art contest. There were over 11...
From otolith archives to networks of biochronologiesWorkshop held to study growth-increment chronologies in marine fishAt its meeting last week, the first Workshop on Growth-increment Chronologies in Marine Fish: climate-ecosystem interactions in the North Atlantic (WKGIC) identified several otolith archives that could...
The Port Aransas Science Fair occurred November 19th and was a culmination of six weeks of research and experimentation by 4th and 5th graders of the Port Aransas Independent School District. The University of Texas Marine Science Institute Scientist-in-Residence graduate students...
Peter Thomas Talks About His Groundbreaking Work on Steroid Hormones and Cancer: hormones, new hormone receptors, and why discoveries in fish are receiving attention in cancer researchIn the fight against cancer there is an unlikely hero: a small coastal fish, the...
Port Aransas, Texas – A University of Texas Marine Science Institute (UTMSI) led consortium of seven institutions was awarded $9.2 million on November 14th to continue research on the impact of oil spills and dispersants on the Gulf of Mexico and...
Do you know an undergraduate interested in marine science? UTMSI is now accepting applications for 8 paid research fellowships for the summer of 2015. Students get the opportunity to conduct independent research projects among mentors and peers. REUisME is a summer research program...
The award announcement is out for the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiatives: http://gulfresearchinitiative.org/gulf-mexico-research-initiative-awards-140-million-support-research/A big congratulations to UTMSI's Ed Buskey, Zhanfei Liu, Deana Erdner, Brad Gemmell, Tracy Villareal, and Andrew Espaugh whose work will be funded to investigate the effect of oil spills on...
PORT ARANSAS, Texas – On October 30-31, 2014, the University of Texas Marine Science Institute hosted a biennial meeting of the Gulf Estuarine Research Society. Researchers and students traveled from across the Gulf of Mexico to share their discoveries and share...
PORT ARANSAS, Texas - The Texas State Aquarium is investing in research at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute (UTMSI) to help understand the movements and migrations of both Atlantic tarpon and larval blue crabs. Both of these animals are...
Congratulations Sara Garcia and Andrew Kang! Sara and Andrew were Semester-by-the-Sea students last spring at UTMSI. Sara just won first place by the North American Marine Environmental Protection Association (NAMEPA) and third place by the American Salvage Association Education Committee in...
Dr. Lee Fuiman takes a voyage to the icy Antarctic. His mission: Understand how Weddell seals navigate under Antarctic ice. Follow us on Facebook to track his journey.
Scientists at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute (UTMSI), with collaborators from the Universities of North Carolina and Tennessee, just published a Letter to the journal Science telling readers why nitrogen inputs to lakes deserve more attention relative to Harmful...
Polar Vortex Turtles
PORT ARANSAS, TX – Texas’s very own Tony Amos of the University of Texas Marine Science Institute (UTMSI) in Port Aransas will be featured this Saturday, October 11th at 9:00 am on ABC’s Sea Rescue “Polar Vortex Turtles” episode....
A report has recently been released by the Our Global Estuary U.S. National Workshop Steering Committee that discusses estuaries worldwide and why they are critical ecosystems in need of attention.
Estuaries are one of the world’s great gathering places: for fresh...