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Stimulus Funding Helps Coral Nurseries Thrive

NOAA announced that The Nature Conservancy and its partners’ staghorn and elkhorn coral recovery projects, including Dr. Diego Lirman’s nursery in Biscayne National Park, will receive $350K in support from the ARRA to further develop large-scale, in-water coral nurseries and restore reefs along Florida’s southern coast and in the USVI. Read more…

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…