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Taking the Plunge
May 23, 2012USC Dornsife students are diving into this year’s Maymester courses. After taking a Spring semester course on the physics, physiology, safety and methodology of scientific diving, 26 undergraduates will dive in the… more>
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Students Take on the QuikSCience Challenge
April 17, 2012USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies staff members are busy escorting several hundred students from middle and high schools to the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island as part of their reward for… 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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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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A Trail-Blazing Summer Internship
July 15, 2011Two students and two recent graduates of USC Dornsife’s Environmental Studies Program have started a trail-blazing summer interning with the Catalina Island Conservancy, where they are spending eight weeks assisting with… more>
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Spend a "Saturday at the Lab" on Catalina Island
June 2, 2011This summer, the USC Philip K. Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island welcomes the general public to visit its state-of-the-art research facilities through its “Saturday at the Lab” program, which began… more>
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USC Sea Grant Program Hosts International Course at USC Lab on Catalina Island
May 12, 2011The USC Sea Grant program, part of the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies based in the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric… more>
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New Director Appointed for the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies
March 14, 2011USC College Dean Howard Gillman has appointed Dr. Roberta Marinelli the new director of the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, following an extensive national search. Since 2005, Marinelli has served as the… more>
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Essential Vitamins in the Marine Environment
October 21, 2010Two 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 marine… more>
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Microbes on the Menu
July 27, 2010The functioning of marine ecosystems depends on the size and flavor of microbes at the base of the food chain. Changes to the Earth's atmosphere might rearrange that microscopic menu. Microbes that currently are the main… more>
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