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USF Board of Trustees February 6 th , 2014 CMS Dean: Jacqueline Dixon Who are we? C.W. Young Marine Science Complex 26 Tenure-track Faculty 104 graduate students (M.S. and Ph.D.) ~$14 M in research funding ($12 M expenditures +

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USF Board of Trustees February 6th, 2014 CMS Dean: Jacqueline Dixon

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  • C.W. Young Marine Science Complex
  • 26 Tenure-track Faculty
  • 104 graduate students (M.S. and

Ph.D.)

  • ~$14 M in research funding ($12 M

expenditures + $2 M F&A)

  • Local, regional, national, international

partners National: FIO/SPOT/COL/SAML/NAML International: Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Korea, China

Who are we?

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Balancing Research and Education

  • USF strives to become similar to AAU Public Universities.
  • Research and graduate education are main indicators used

by AAU to evaluate universities for membership.

  • Phase I indicators
  • 1. Competitively funded federal research support
  • 2. Membership in the National Academies
  • 3. Faculty awards
  • 4. Citations
  • Phase II indicators
  • 1. USDA, state, and industrial research funding
  • 2. Doctoral education
  • 3. Number of postdoctoral appointees
  • 4. Undergraduate education
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Increasing Federal Competitive Awards

5,000,000 6,000,000 7,000,000 8,000,000 9,000,000 10,000,000

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

CMS Fed. $

Expenditures - Federal Awards Year

$8.6M

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Increasing Federal Awards per Faculty Member

100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

CMS FedComp$/TT

Expenditures/TT - Federal Awards Year

$360K

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Highest per Faculty Research Productivity in Academic Affairs

Includes Dean’s Office

50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 350,000 400,000 A&S CBS BUS EDU ENG GS CMS ART HON US

CompFed$/TT

Federal R&D per TT Faculty College or Unit

F&A not included

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CMS is 2.7% of Academic Affairs Faculty and produces 13% of the R&D $

0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 A&S CBS BUS EDU ENG GS CMS ArtsHonors UG

Fraction Tenure-Track Faculty College or Unit

Academic Affairs Total # Instructional Faculty = 1021 Total # TT Faculty = 786

2.7%

0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 0.30 A&S CBS BUS EDU ENG GS CMS ArtsHonors UG

Fraction Research $ (R&D+F&A) College or Unit

13%

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Balancing Research and Education

“A hallmark of the American university system is the marriage of research with the training of the next generation of scientists and engineers. The university research enterprise ensures continuity between the newest thinking in every field and those who will carry its seeds into industry, medicine, public service”

2002 AAU White Paper on America’s Research Universities

RESEARCH is TEACHING!!!

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Excellence in Graduate Education

  • Mentored graduate degrees
  • >1/4 of graduate students received external awards
  • High placement rates

Out of 8 recent Ph.D.s:

  • 5 hired as post-docs
  • 2 hired as new faculty
  • 1 hired at state research

agency

  • 3 under-represented

minority Ph.D.s

  • Success with under-represented minorities consistently

higher than national average.

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Faculty Awards - National

  • Dr. Cameron Ainsworth received a 2013 Sloan Fellowship for early-career

scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Cam is one of only two Sloan Fellowships awarded this year in the state of Florida.

  • Dr. Mya Breitbart was selected by Popular Science magazine (October

2013 issue) as one of their “Brilliant 10”—an annual feature profiling 10 young scientists who are doing truly groundbreaking work in their fields.

  • Dr. Robert Byrne was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

(Dec. 2012), USF Excellence in Innovation Reward (2012), and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, Feb. 2014)

  • Dr. Eugene Domack was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical

Union (Dec. 2012) and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, Feb. 2013)

  • Dr. Steve Murawski was appointed as the United States Academic

Delegate to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and as a committee member for the Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences 2015 (NAS committee)

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Faculty Awards – Community

  • ARCS Collaborative Award Ceremony on February 9th, 2013

honored “Catalysts in STEM”. CMS faculty and staff, including

  • Drs. Kendra Daly, Al Hine, David Hollander, Ernst Peebles,

Robert Weisberg, and Chad Lembke.

  • Dr. Pamela Hallock Muller was chosen as one of the Top 25

Women Professors in Florida. Hallock Muller specializes in the research of human impact on coral reefs.

  • USF College of Marine Science was selected to be the

Hillsborough County Secondary Business Partner of the Year and Dr. Frank Muller Karger was selected as the Business Partner of the Year (nominated by the Stewart Middle Magnet school).

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College of Marine Science Research

  • There is only one ocean

– Global Observations and Processes – Interdisciplinary Research with Shared Infrastructure

ships/satellites/buoys/moorings/gliders/ROVs/Analytical Facilities

– Innovation and Technology Development Essential

  • Globally Significant & Regionally Relevant Research

– Ocean & Human Health – Ocean Observing & Modeling – Sensor Development – Marine Ecosystem & Resource Assessment – Climate Change – Past, Present, & Future – C-IMAGE GoMRI Consortium

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Ocean & Human Health Breitbart Group: First Discovery of Viruses in Copepods

  • Copepods are most abundant animals in the oceans,

playing critical roles in marine food webs and global carbon cycling

  • 35% of copepod death has unknown cause (not

explained by predation); ocean health/chemistry is possible cause (link to human cancers?)

  • Using genomics and microscopy, Breitbart lab

documented FIRST evidence for viral infection copepods (Dunlap et al., PNAS 2013)

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Muller-Karger Group: CARIACO Ocean Time-Series

Studying linkages between

  • ceanographic conditions and past

climate changes International Collaboration - NSF and Venezuelan Govt funding since 1995 Long-term decrease in productivity and regional sardine fishery being caused by warming of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea, which has led to northward shift of Intertropical Convergence Zone

Ocean Observing & Modeling

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Ocean Observing & Modeling: Remote Sensing

Hu Group: Selected Highlights on Global & Gulf of Mexico Research

Hu, Li, Pichel et al. (2009) on Gulf of Mexico oil seeps Ma, Duan, Hu, et al. (2010) on China’s shrinking lakes Hu, Weisberg, et al. (2011) on Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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Ocean Observing & Climate Change & New Sensors Byrne Group: Ocean Acidification

  • High precision and high spatial resolution measurements of carbonate

saturation states off the California Coast and Arctic.

  • Data obtained using novel spectrophotometric procedures developed in our

college, plus pH and carbonate data obtained by Ph.D. student Mark Patsavas

  • n a 2011 NOAA cruise.
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Grouper Not Grouper

New Sensors & Commercialization: Paul Group: Grouper Forensics: What’s in your sandwich??

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Asian catfish Grouper Imposter Fla Grouper The Real Deal

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Climate Change – Past & Present

Shevenell Group: Southern Ocean warming, Antarctic ice sheet evolution, and global change

  • Ongoing multi-disciplinary oceanographic research

is investigating Southern Ocean-glacial ice interactions in East Antarctica

  • Warm Southern Ocean waters are melting Antarctic

glaciers, implications for sea level rise in Florida

  • USF CMS paleoceanographers reconstruct past (0-

34 Ma)

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temperatures from fossilized microorganisms found in Southern Ocean marine sediments.

  • Data published in Science and Nature reveal past

Antarctic ice sheet retreat occurred during intervals

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Southern Ocean warming and elevated atmospheric CO2.

Shevenell et al., Nature, 2011 In Mulvaney et al., Nature,2012

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April 20, 2010 Explosion and Fire on Transocean Ltd’s Drilling Rig - Deepwater Horizon Explosion

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TAMU UMiami TUHH UCalgary USF, Calgary, Eckerd, PSU, Wageningen,WFla USF, Scripps, SAlabama, WFla USF USF, Mote

Steve Murawski, PI

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Integrated sediment & fish sampling R/V Weatherbird II - 2012

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Peebles/USF

Laser Ablation & ICP-MS analysis of otoliths

Peebles group: Using fish earbones as recorders of past contamination of fish by oil.

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Community Engagement via field courses, training, and professional development at our Clam Bayou Marine Education Center

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Blue Ocean Film Festival coming to St. Petersburg, Nov 2–9, 2014 Official announcement in early Oct. 2013

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USF College of Marine Science

  • Thank you for your support for the R/V

Weatherbird II and R/V Bellows replacement

  • Additional assistance?

– Help with competition for state RESTORE Act Funds – Recognition of the role of research and graduate education in USF’s strategic vision – Recognition of the high cost of research and innovation

  • Questions?