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Date: March 17, 2025
Although the idea that owls are the smartest birds is a myth, the Florida Atlantic University Owls are proving otherwise! FAU has recently earned R1 status, placing it among the top 5% of research institutions in the U.S. Read more.
Date: March 12, 2025
In January of this year (2025), thousands of scientists traveled to Atlanta, Georgia for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) annual meeting. Florida Atlantic University’s College of Science was well represented with a whopping 32 FAU students and faculty presenting their research at the conference! Read more.
Date: February 18, 2025
When going through TSA at the airport, most people worry about their body wash exceeding the liquid limit — but for Florida Atlantic University Ph.D. candidate Jamie Knaub, the concern was a skeleton of the world’s smallest porpoise, known as a vaquita, packed in her carry-on bag. She had all the necessary paperwork, but would that be enough to satisfy the TSA inspectors? Read more.
Date: February 17, 2025
The month of February has been very busy for the SEA Scholars with many outreach events (and many more to come)! What better way to honor Valentine’s Day than to celebrate the marine life we love so much? We decided to spread the love by creating our own marine-themed and scientifically accurate valentines to share with our community. There is nothing we SEA Scholars enjoy more than communicating the research done at the FAU Marine Lab with a good science pun. Even though Valentine’s Day passed, we still wanted to share their sweet notes – and the science behind them, of course – with you! Read more.
Date: January 23, 2025
On January 14th, FAU Marine Lab Coordinator and Ph.D. Candidate, Emily Turla, kicked off the lecture series talking about leatherback research at the FAU Marine Lab! She had a packed house of over 70 attendees! Read more.
Date: January 23, 2025
2024 was a record-setting year for FAU Marine Lab and our Glenn W. & Cornelia T. Bailey Marine SEA Scholars Program! Read more.
Date: December 12, 2024
Where do tiny turtles go once they leave our beaches? Read more.
Date: December 6, 2024
This year (2024) Dr. Jeanette Wyneken, Director of the FAU Marine Science Lab, was awarded the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Researcher of the Year Award at the Full Professor level! Read more.
Date: November 25, 2024
The final installment – it’s Part 3! Over the last few months, many of our scientists answered the prompt “I should have known I would be a marine biologist when…” Read more.
Date: November 9, 2024
Coral reefs make up only 1% of the seafloor, and yet, they support approximately 25% of all marine species – much like your crowded kitchen on Thanksgiving, filled with family and friends! Read more.
Date: October 25, 2024
It’s Spooky Season at the FAU Marine Lab! Many folks in our lab love the opportunity to masquerade as something else – graduate students have been known to feed turtles in ninja turtle costumes, Postdocs have dressed up like a deep-sea strawberry squid (complete with bejeweled light-producing organs!), and full professors have given entire lectures in Halloween garb. Read more.
Date: October 22, 2024
The trilogy continues – it’s Part 2! Last month, many of our scientists answered the prompt “I should have known I would be a marine biologist when…” For some, the writing was on the wall quite early, and for others, the aha moment came later. Read on for our second batch of interesting origin stories! Read more.
Date: September 22, 2024
September means: it’s back-to-school time! Big yellow buses once again make our commutes a little slower, and students huddle on street corners ready to catch a ride. As I see neighborhood children waiting to hop aboard, I find myself pondering who among them might be a budding marine biologist? Read more.
Date: September 22, 2024
In July of 2024, FAU Marine Lab students, faculty, and alumni from the Elasmobranch (Elasmo) Lab and Florida Atlantic Biomechanics (FAB) Lab attended the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (JMIH) in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Our team presented their research to other fishy (ichthyologists) and reptilian (herpetologists) scientists, showcasing recent shark and ray studies. Read more.
Date: August 15, 2024
While the tooth fairy hasn’t made any recent visits to the FAU Marine Lab, they make plenty of visits to our study animals in the Lake Worth Lagoon — octopuses! Octopuses and their mollusc relatives like snails, slugs, squids (and more), have a small, chainsaw-like structure loaded with teeth called a radula. Read more.
Date: July 15, 2024
Just like the five Olympic Rings, the five oceans of the world are all connected. With the excitement and anticipation of the Summer Olympic Games upon us, we are left to wonder, who might be our Marine Animal Olympians? Read more.
Date: July 15, 2024
This summer, FAU Marine Lab once again partnered with the American Association of University Women (AAUW) to help host Tech Trek, a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) summer camp for middle school girls. Read more.
Date: June 21, 2024
If you have ever spent a spring or summer day on the beaches of Boca Raton, Florida then you’re familiar with the orange stakes and tape denoting the locations of the hundreds of sea turtle nests. These nests are marked and monitored by the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center (GLNC) conservation department, a neighbor and partner of the FAU Marine Lab. Read more.
Date: June 17, 2024
While the summer semester means many FAU students scatter far and wide for well-deserved vacations or summer jobs, it is also when many of the organisms we study are in our local waters or nesting on our beaches. Sea turtle nesting and hatching season is now in full swing here in south Florida. Similarly, we have reached the peak octopus season. Read more.
In March, students and faculty from the FAU Marine Lab traveled all the way to Pattaya, Thailand to present their groundbreaking research at the 2024 International Sea Turtle Symposium (ISTS). Members of the Marine Lab, along with their collaborators, presented
ten different research projects.
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As part of our mission to enhance science communication to broad audiences, the Glenn W. & Cornelia T. Bailey Marine SEA Scholars find themselves out in the community a lot, but this spring, they found themselves inside some local schools! Read more.
On April 5th, Savannah Arvin and Alex Hoey, two undergraduates in this program, earned the opportunity to present their individual research projects at the 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. Read more.
Dr. Beth Bowers, an FAU graduate and Marine Lab alumna, recently accepted an impressive and fitting position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland. I sat down with Dr. Bowers to discuss the details of her FAU dissertation research, her new career path, and renewable energy! Read more.
October 10, 2023
Trolls aren’t the only creatures living under bridges this Halloween! Nestled in South Florida’s Lake Worth Lagoon is a living jewel of biodiversity under a 65-foot-high roadway called the Blue Heron Bridge.
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September 19, 2023
Sea turtles are docile, yet resilient, creatures. They hatch with long flippers and armor equipped to ward off some predators. These prehistoric reptiles swam in our oceans when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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September 14, 2023
How can we encourage young women to pursue careers in traditionally male-dominated STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields?
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August 25, 2023
Where do little sea turtles go after emerging from nests on the beach?
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August 10, 2023
Students and faculty from the FAU Marine Lab attended the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM) in Cairns, Australia!
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July 18, 2023
It’s hatchling time! The 2023 nesting season is officially underway as the lab begins filling up with the three species of sea turtles that we work with at the FAU Marine Lab.
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July 17, 2023
Here at the FAU Marine Lab, we might be a little biased, but we think our shelled friends are turtle-y awesome!
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June 14, 2023
Ph.D. candidate, Jamie Knaub, based in Dr. Marianne Porter’s Florida Atlantic Biomechanics (FAB) Lab recently presented her work at the 4th biennial Tomography for Scientific Advancement (ToScA) North America symposium in Austin, Texas! As a recipient of the Jim Elliott Award in 2021, her presentation was one of the featured talks at this year’s event!
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June 14, 2023
On June 8th, World Oceans Day was celebrated! It is a holiday that reminds us to respect the oceans and how they play essential roles in Earth’s ability to remain habitable.
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April 26, 2023
What do you get when you mix 43 students, 10 sharks, and 4 days of cruising on a 78-foot research vessel? Well lots of learning, of course!
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April 25, 2023
As we prepare to bring in the first hatchlings of the 2023 season, here we wrap up our series on what we learned in 2022.
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April 18, 2023
Spring is a great time for our researchers to share their work with their peers at two major sea turtle conferences! This marks the first time both conferences have been held in-person since February of 2020, and our researchers were thrilled to rub elbows with their peers and mentors! Our students presented groundbreaking work and won awards!
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April 25, 2023
Every year, after the last of the season’s turtles are released, the FAU Marine Lab uses that “offseason” time to analyze results and do lab repairs. In this article, we highlight the hard work some of our graduate students have accomplished over the last year.
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April 25, 2023
Let’s start this article off with two riddles:
March 25, 2023
The 2022 turtle season for the FAU Marine Lab came to a close on March 21st as the last of our turtles were released into the Gulf Stream. Since May 2022, a total of 299 turtles –– all three species that hatch from Floridian nests (loggerhead, green, and leatherback) were studied in our lab.
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February 28, 2023
Dr. Chelsea Bennice, or “Octo-Girl”, is the new Postdoctoral researcher leading our Glenn W. and Cornelia T. Bailey Marine SEA Scholars program, and we are so grateful to have her join our team!
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February 28, 2023
“An 80,000-word thesis would take 9 hours to present…their time limit is 3 minutes.” This year, the FAU Marine Lab was represented by Ph.D. students Madeleine Hagood from Dr. Marianne Porter’s lab and Ivana Serra from Dr. Jeanette Wyneken’s lab.
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January 26, 2023
“How old are those turtles?” is a question FAU Marine Lab Coordinator, Emily Turla, hears often from our Visitor’s Gallery. However, this time of year, an influx of visitors has her noticing some new comments. One in particular: “These turtles look a lot bigger than my last visit!” Read more.
January 26, 2023
To kick off the new year in science style, many researchers traveled from around the world to attend the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology (SICB) annual conference. Read more.
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