Rafael Lima wanted to witness up close the critical role sharks play in our ecosystem. The School of Communication lecturer got his chance during an open water shark dive at the Bimini Biological Field Station Foundation (also known as the Bimini Sharklab), launched in 1990 by alumnus Samuel H. Gruber, B.S. ’60, M.S. ’66, Ph.D. ’69, an […]
Tag Archives: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Into the Storm: Discovery amid the Unexpected
Faculty Files Photo by Donna Victor Into the Storm: Discovery amid the Unexpected Chidong Zhang has devoted his career to understanding weather patterns in a changing climate. But despite his reverence for scientific order, if there’s one thing the professor of meteorology and physical oceanography at UM’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science has […]
Tagged for Survival
BY Robert C. Jones Jr. PHOTOS BY Cat Schulz, B.S.C. ’14 Though maligned in the movies and still regarded by some as villains of the sea, sharks couldn’t be more important to the health of marine ecosystems. Efforts underway at the R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program are giving these top predators a fighting chance at […]
Aquatic Attraction
Student Spotlight Aquatic Attraction Patrick Rynne’s Waterlust is making waves. Scituate, Massachusetts, native Patrick Rynne might as well be a merman. Considering how much of his life he’s spent both in and on the ocean, it’s a wonder he hasn’t grown gills. “I grew up by the water,” says Rynne, a 30-year-old Ph.D. candidate […]
AIDS Vaccine News
R+D Update AIDS Vaccine News Researchers at the Miller School of Medicine HIV Program have developed a vaccine that triggers an immune system res-ponse strong enough to kill a model AIDS virus in mice. The study appeared in the Journal of Virology in February. Geoffrey W. Stone, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, who led […]
Space-Age Stem Cells
R+D Update Space-Age Stem Cells His groundbreaking research already shattered the earthly view that damaged heart muscle can’t be rejuvenated. Now Joshua Hare, the Miller School of Medicine’s chief science officer and director of the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, is expanding his research to the final frontier—outer space. The Louis Lemberg Professor of Medicine was […]
Sea Sounds Catch Foundation’s Attention
A University of Miami Ph.D. candidate studying the impact of undersea sounds on fish was honored by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program during its recent 60th anniversary celebration. Erica Staaterman, an NSF Graduate Research Fellow studying bio-acoustics and larval fish navigation, traveled to Washington, D.C., in December to accept an award for […]
