Vietnam and Malaysia have upgraded diplomatic ties and pledged to deepen their cooperation on the South China Sea dispute ahead of a second Donald Trump administration in the US and rising maritime tensions between Beijing and Manila. The elevation in ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership – announced last week during Vietnamese Communist Party chief … Read more
Dr. Savanna Barry, Florida Sea Grant Regional Specialized Agent for the Nature Coast and administrator of FFA, with Jack Payne, member of the National Sea Grant Advisory Board, at 2024 Sea Grant Week. Florida Sea Grant’s Florida Friendly Fishing certification programs received the 2024 Superior Outreach Programming Teams Award (SOPA) at National Sea Grant Week … Read more
Natalia Uribe-CastañedaUniversity of Central FloridaExecutive Branch Natalia Uribe-Castañeda is a University of Florida Ph.D. graduate from Colombia, who recently obtained her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Ecology, under advisor Dr. Martin Main in UF’s School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE). Uribe-Castañeda’s dissertation, titled “Community Engagement in Coral Reef Restoration”, investigates strategies that organizations use to engage … Read more
Pasco County is a vital area, with 24 miles of coastline along the Gulf of Mexico, encompassing the southernmost region of the Nature Coast Aquatic Preserve. Nestled between Hernando, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Sumter, and Polk counties, Pasco serves as a transition zone between agricultural lands and developed coastal communities. It is characterized by barrier islands, estuaries, … Read more
Scholar Highlight is a recurring phase of Florida Sea Grant’s Sea Students E-newsletter, the place a earlier or present pupil solutions questions on their analysis expertise. Nathan Hewitt was a 2023 challenge growth intern underneath Michael Savarese, PhD, Division of Marine and Earth Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast College (FGCU). This previous spring, Nathan concluded … Read more
