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November 19, 2020
91ÖÆÆ¬³§ Harbor Branch and FWC scientists successfully caught, tagged and released a juvenile smalltooth sawfish in the Indian River Lagoon - a major step for sawfish research and recovery efforts in Florida.

November 12, 2020
91ÖÆÆ¬³§ is giving everyone the chance to cast their votes (again), but this time for the best images captured by its researchers in a contest that highlights work from across all of 91ÖÆÆ¬³§'s 10 colleges.

November 06, 2020
91ÖÆÆ¬³§â€™s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute is searching for mates that can help steer a vital program back on course and preserve our oceans’ health by inspiring and educating our youth. With...

November 04, 2020
91ÖÆÆ¬³§ scientists studied songbirds' gut microbiome and have identified potentially critical bacteria affecting cognition and performance.
October 29, 2020
Gulf of Mexico deep-sea corals will soon be protected as part of a first-of-its-kind plan to safeguard some of the region's important coral hotspots and restrict damaging fishing gear in most of the areas.
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October 20, 2020
91ÖÆÆ¬³§ Harbor Branch and Bonefish & Tarpon Trust have reached a groundbreaking milestone in fish reproduction research by successfully inducing captive bonefish to spawn in aquaculture tanks.

October 13, 2020
91ÖÆÆ¬³§ Harbor Branch scientists and collaborators have obtained a quantitative number for biomass from oceanic plastic debris using a novel visualization method that provides the first estimate of its kind.

September 23, 2020
A team of scientists from 91ÖÆÆ¬³§'s Harbor Branch and collaborators recently explored the depths of the "Green Banana" Blue Hole thanks to gutsy scuba divers and an innovative 500-pound autonomous benthic lander.

September 16, 2020
91ÖÆÆ¬³§'s Harbor Branch has landed an $11,179,001 contract from the U.S. Office of Naval Research to develop a next-generation bathyphotometer sensor for natural oceanic bioluminescence assessments.

August 25, 2020
91ÖÆÆ¬³§ Harbor Branch researchers conducted the first long-term, in-depth analysis of the elasmobranch community in the southern Indian River Lagoon, categorizing 630 individuals of 16 species.