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May 2, 2012
The Long Way Home
Late one night in 2006, Kwasi Connor entered a dark, empty laboratory at California State University, Los Angeles. Connor, now a Ph.D. candidate in USC Dornsife, had worked at the lab for two years under the tutelage of… more>
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NSF Support for Probe of Microbes
March 19, 2012Researchers with the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, housed in USC Dornsife, have received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the composition and complexity of marine… more>
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Earth's Past Is Warning for the Future
March 6, 2012When the Earth’s carbon dioxide level increased at a rapid rate during the Triassic-Jurassic period 200 million years ago, nearly half the ocean’s marine life became extinct. USC Dornsife geologists contributed to… more>
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USC Sea Grant Funds Studies of "Urban Ocean" Issues
February 17, 2012The University of Southern California Sea Grant Program has awarded $727,700 to support seven new research projects led by researchers at universities throughout California. The studies look at issues such fish contamination,… more>
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Life Discovered on Dead Hydrothermal Vents
January 27, 2012Scientists at USC have uncovered evidence that even when hydrothermal sea vents go dormant and their blistering warmth turns to frigid cold, life goes on. Or rather, it is replaced. A team led by USC Dornsife microbiologist… more>
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Curtailing Poisonous Shellfish
December 8, 2011The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has granted $4 million to a team including USC scientists for a five-year project to investigate early detection of potentially deadly algal blooms — known as… more>
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From Deep Sea to Dry Dock
November 23, 2011This week a USC scientist who spent 65 days at sea in search of life hidden beneath the seafloor returns from a successful expedition, which she chronicled in regular blog posts from her ship. Katrina Edwards of USC Dornsife… more>
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Toxic Red Tides: USC Scientist Tracks Neurotoxin-Producing Algae
September 30, 2011With toxic algal blooms — which can increase the amount of harmful toxins in the shellfish that California residents consume — ramping up in frequency and severity locally, scientists in USC Dornsife have… more>
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September 14, 2011 The Importance of Life's Day/Night Cycle
USC researchers were surprised recently to discover just how much the rising and setting of the sun drives life on Earth — even in unexpected places. The findings, which appear this month in the Proceedings of the… more>
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Ocean Probes Offer Insight Into Climate Change
August 9, 2011Lisa Collins, environmental studies lecturer at the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, spent four years collecting samples from floating sediment traps in the San Pedro Basin off the Los Angeles… more>
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