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USC College marine biologist David Caron attends a COSEE-West workshop in January. Photo by Peter Tuddenham.

Ocean Education for the Masses

March 21, 2011

USC College scientists are working with staff and volunteers at informal education centers across Southern California to bring the results of their ocean research to education programs aimed at the general public. Funded… more>

categories: research

tags: biology, center for ocean sciences education excellence, marine biology, national science foundation, natural sciences, ocean, wrigley institute for environmental studies

Emily Smail, a doctoral candidate in the USC College marine environmental biology program, stands near a water sampling system on the deck of the research vessel Kilo Moana near Hawaii. Photo credit Eric Webb.

Essential Vitamins in the Marine Environment

October 21, 2010

Two USC College biologists have received support from the National Science Foundation to examine the conditions that lead to the synthesis of B vitamins in the marine environment and the influence of those vitamins on… more>

categories: research, faculty research

tags: biological sciences, biology, eric webb, national science foundation, natural sciences, ocean, sergio sañudo-wilhelmy, usc wrigley institute for environmental studies, wrigley institute for environmental studies

Members of a student team from Santa Monica High School that participated in the 2010 QuikSCience Challenge. Photo credit Ben Kay.

Science Students Earn Trip to Catalina

June 7, 2010

Environmental educators at USC have been showing the university's research facilities on Catalina Island to hundreds of students from middle schools and high schools since the conclusion of the 2010 QuikSCience Challenge, a… more>

categories: undergraduate

tags: catalina island, natural sciences, quikscience challenge, wrigley institute for environmental studies, wrigley marine science center

A diver works with an underwater acoustic receiver at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island as part of a project supported by the USC Sea Grant program. Photo credit Chris Lowe.

USC Sea Grant Director Headed to China Workshop

March 2, 2010

Linda Duguay, director of the USC Sea Grant program, has been selected to participate in a National Science Foundation workshop in China to discuss a foundation-supported ocean science education project and its possible… more>

categories: research, faculty research

tags: biological sciences, china, national science foundation, natural sciences, ocean science, wrigley institute for environmental studies

Deep-Sea Expedition Begins

November 1, 2008

Seldom has one scientist dived so deep to look at something so small. For three weeks this month, USC College’s David Caron will join an expedition to study marine life around deep-sea hydrothermal vents. His specialty:… more>

categories: faculty research

tags: environmental studies, marine biology, natural sciences, ocean, wrigley institute for environmental studies