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Lisa Beal

NSF Funds Grant to Study Agulhas Current

The NSF announced that it is funding a three-year, $3.4 million study with the goal of building a multi-decadal time series of the climatically critical Agulhas Current. Led by UM’s Dr. Lisa Beal, the team will use in situ and along-track sateelite observations to study the transport, which impacts precipitation rates in Africa and may have helped to trigger the end of the last Ice Age. Read more…

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User Support of FKNMS Continues to Grow

Stakeholder support for management strategies and regulations of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary grew dramatically among key user groups in the last 10 years according to a peer-reviewed study by researchers from NOAA, UM and Thomas J. Murray & Assoc. Dr. Daniel Suman, Flavia Tonioli and Manaj Shivlani from UM contributed to the study, comparing 2006 perceptions to those in a 1995-96 baseline study. See more…