To create a comprehensive inventory of marine species in Santa Catalina Island’s Blue Cavern Point nature preserve, USC Dornsife scholars dived into kelp forests, scoured museum archives and came face-to-face with a great white shark. [5 min read]
Isabella O’Brien turned discarded oyster, clam and mussel shells into a means to deacidify ocean and lake waters. [4 min read]
Jed Fuhrman and David Needham of biological sciences discover that algal blooms in the ocean encompass microscopic skirmishes, with the front lines shifting on a daily basis.
USC Dornsife's Sergio Sañudo-Wilhelmy led a team of scientists in the development of a new method of analyzing water samples. The method identified vitamin deficient zones in the ocean.
