Life often comes full circle—and Dr. Dana Stephens exemplifies this through her career-long connection to extension. Now serving as the Florida Sea Grant UF/IFAS Extension Agent for Okaloosa County, she embodies the program’s vision of community outreach, education, and application of science. Growing up in Minnesota, the “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” Dr. Stephens developed an … Read more
In less than 14 months, submarine telecommunications cables connecting Estonia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, and Sweden have been cut nine times in the Baltic Sea. In addition, an underwater electricity cable and a gas pipeline have been cut by a ship anchor. These damages occurred in three separate incidents all involving a foreign commercial ship … Read more
Two main reasons those gas pockets appear in turtles are plastics and boat strikes. When a turtle consumes something it can’t digest—like parts of fishing nets, plastic bottles, or even rubber gloves (yes, there was a sea turtle found with a rubber glove in its intestines)—it sometimes gets stuck somewhere along its gastrointestinal tract. This, … Read more
Corralling Connections Florida Sea Grant Guy Harvey Foundation Fellows (Alexis Mitchem & Susannah Cogburn) with Dr. Guy Harvey at ICAST, in Orlando, Florida. Florida Sea Grant hosted two inaugural symposiums this year, and attended the world’s largest sportfishing trade show! The year began with the Research Symposium, which highlighted Florida Sea Grant’s role in addressing … Read more
Today—the 10th of December—is an important day for international law. First, on 10 December 1982, the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was adopted in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Among other things, the UNCLOS governs the innocent passage regime, which codifies and stabilises the delicate balance struck between the interests of coastal … Read more
