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High Tech Help To Protect Endangered Goliath Grouper

Ocean Research & Conservation Association (ORCA) and its collaborators announced the world’s first use of an acoustic underwater camera to survey juveniles of goliath grouper in mangrove habitats. This species is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN. The largest grouper fish in the Atlantic Ocean, juveniles spend almost the first decade of their lives in red mangrove nurseries. ORCA scientist Dr. Sarah Frias-Torres and colleagues at UM Rosenstiel successfully demonstrated how this camera system, originally developed for the U.S. Department of Defense, can be used to conduct visual underwater surveys to evaluate the recovery/decline of the species. Read more…

Inaugural “Ocean Kids” Teaches Conservation, Appreciation

F.I.N.SEA Foundation, the UM Rosenstiel School, and the Marine and Atmospheric Science Honor Society Rho Rho Rho will host the first annual Ocean Kids on Nov. 22 from 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. on UM’s Coral Gables campus. One hundred students from Dunbar and Holmes Elementary Schools in northwest Miami will enjoy marine science adventures, while learning about conservation and the ocean. Read more…