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You know what we DON’T love this Valentine’s Day? 💔 Microplastics on the beach. 🏖️ Fortunately, our colleagues on the main campus, Carlos Baiz and team are working on a solution 💘 Read the story: cns.utexas.edu/news/feature...
#UTMSI #Microplastics #TexasScience #Robotics
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New e-book written by @ingridbunholi.bsky.social and colleagues. Fast, practical techniques for species ID 🦈 using DNA/eDNA. “From Sample to Rapid DNA and eDNA Identification – An Easy Step-by-Step Guide”
Download here: pt.scribd.com/document/952...
#MarineScience #DNA #TexasScience #UTMSI
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🦈 Fast Solutions for an Urgent Problem - PhD student Ingrid Bunholi's new paper on the use of rapid genetic testing in shark & ray conservation. An e-book is coming soon 👉 utmsi.utexas.edu/fast-solutio...
📷 Erika Beux #Shark #TexasScience #eDNA #UTMSI #Genetics #CaseyLab
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Bob and Kevin are back in action! Yesterday, a 2nd Sofar buoy "Kevin" was deployed at West Flower Garden Bank by FGBNMS scientists. The Hu Lab will use the data from both Kevin and Bob to monitor the environmental health of the coral reefs.🔹 Meet Kevin: spotters.sofarocean.com/historical/S...
#UTMSI
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Join researchers from #UTMSI as they capture stunning high-res imagery of plankton using an advanced shadowgraph-based system that continuously collects images of fish larvae, jellies, amphipods, and other planktonic organisms in their natural environment.
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🌟 Staff Spotlight: Caitlin Neill 🌟
Research Tech in the Nielsen Lab, “Drip Master” of Solid Phase Extraction, and lifelong learner. Outside the lab, she enjoys sewing, crocheting, music & softball. If she were a marine organism? A Christmas Tree Worm!
📷: Izzy Nelson
#UTMSI #StaffSpotlight
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Institute Insights: Gaining insight through entrails 🐟🔬
David Malcolm dissects fish guts to study estuarine food webs, revealing how environmental shifts ripple through the food chain—like modern-day haruspicy.
www.portasouthjetty.com/articles/gai...
📷: David Malcolm
#UTMSI #InstituteInsights
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🎓 Big congrats to our newest Master's grad, Kody Barone!
His research explored how mangrove dieback from the 2021 freeze impacts blue carbon storage in South Texas marshes—highlighting the resilience of soil carbon in coastal wetlands.
#UTMSI #BlueCarbon #Mangroves #TexasScience
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Science and the Sea: When Hanging Out Takes Work 🐠
Hovering in place isn’t easy—fish can burn twice the energy staying still midwater vs. resting on the bottom!
utmsi.utexas.edu/science-and-...
📷 Philippe Bourjon, CC BY-SA 4.0
#ScienceAndTheSea #UTMSI #FishFacts #TexasScience
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🎬 Just days away! Join us Friday, Aug 1 | 2–3:30 PM at the Patton Center for a free screening of Our Texas, Our Future, an @HEB docuseries celebrating Texas’ natural beauty. 🌿
Info: utmsi.utexas.edu/event/h-e-b-...
#OurTexasOurFuture #HEB #UTMSI #TexasScience
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❄️ Institute Insights: Arctic lagoons through snow, ice & t-shirt weather?
Mathea Kurtz-Shaw shares what it’s like to do fieldwork across 3 extreme Arctic seasons.
Read more: www.portasouthjetty.com/articles/bad...
#InstituteInsights #UTMSI #ArcticResearch #TexasScience
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🎣 Caught a Freckled Guitarfish in the Gulf? Help science!
Report your catch & support research on this unique species.
Learn how ➡️ utmsi.utexas.edu/assist-scien...
#FreckledGuitarfish #UTMSI #CommunityScience #TexasScience
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The latest edition of our newsletter is here! 🤿 Dive into updates, behind-the-scenes stories, research discoveries, and the exciting work happening at the UT Marine Science Institute 🔗 indd.adobe.com/view/33a38a8...
#Newsletter #MarineScience #TexasScience #UTMSI
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From Classroom to Coastline! 🌊🌱Thirteen educators explored coastal science at the July 7–9 TOTE Workshop in Port Aransas, hosted by Mission-Aransas NERR. Hands-on fieldwork and NOAA resources will help them bring estuary science to their classrooms.
#TOTEWorkshop #MissionAransasNERR #UTMSI
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Science and the Sea: The Not-So-Rare Giant Crustacean 🦐 At over 13", Alicella gigantea is the largest amphipod on Earth—and possibly not as rare as once thought. utmsi.utexas.edu/science-and-...
📷 Alan Jamieson, CC BY-SA 4.0
#ScienceAndTheSea #UTMSI #AlicellaGigantea #TexasScience #DeepSea
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Congratulations to Ph.D. student Hannah Rempel on receiving a grant from the International Women's Fishing Association Scholarship Trust in support of her research on the impact of pollutants on reef fishes. 🐠
#Congratulations #IWFA #UTMSI #TexasScience
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🎬 Join us for Our Texas, Our Future—a free H-E-B docuseries screening celebrating Texas' beauty & conservation heroes!
utmsi.utexas.edu/event/h-e-b-...
#OurTexasOurFuture #HEB #UTMSI #TexasScience
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The campus, including the Patton Center, is closed on Friday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day. We’ll resume normal hours on Saturday, July 5 (10 a.m.–4 p.m.).
Have a safe and happy Fourth! 🇺🇸
#UTMSI #FourthOfJuly #IndependenceDay #PortAransas
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Staff Spotlight: Maggie Weston 🌟
Maggie is the Education Assistant at the Bay Education Center in Rockport. She leads engaging programs like Science On a Sphere & loves sharing marine science with the next generation.
#UTMSI #StaffSpotlight #TexasScience #ScienceEducation
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Congrats to Tamara Rivera, PhD student in the Nielsen Lab, on receiving the Marion E. Eason Scholarship to support her mercury research in Kachemak Bay, Alaska! Her work explores climate-driven mercury risks to ecosystems and communities.
📷: Kerri Lynn Ackerly
#UTMSI #NielsenLab
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On World Ocean Day, we celebrate the pursuit of knowledge—through science, education, and outreach—that deepens our understanding of ocean and coastal systems. Our mission: to improve understanding of the marine environment through rigorous research. 🌍🌊
#WorldOceanDay #UTMSI #TexasScience
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Saving #seaturtles in #Texas. Good people still doing good work! #UTMSI #ARK texasclimatenews.org/2025/03/22/a...
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