Brooke Laboratory in the News

Learn about an exciting new project at the FSUCML, where researchers will assess the status of seagrasses along the west coast of Florida, and identify reasons why seagrasses are not recovering in some areas.

Dr. Sandra Brooke (FSUCML faculty) and team received the National Oceanographic Partnership Program's (NOPP) 2015 Excellence in Partnering Award for their work on the Atlantic Canyons: Pathways to the Abyss project. Throughout the course of this project, Dr. Brooke and team logged 90 at-sea days, conducted 414 hours of Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) dives, identified over 125 species of fish, and discovered large swaths of chemosynthetic mussel communities. Congratulations, Dr. Brooke for this fantastic accomplishment!

See a recap of the 2015 visitors to the FSUCML. We had folks from all over the world, including Brazil, Guam, Malaysia, and Indonesia. From research trips to field trips, we had a lot of excitement in 2015.

The K-Tower monitoring system plays an important role to researchers and others in academia. Dr. Sandra Brooke, FSUCML faculty, is currently studying coral growth and reproduction in the Florida Panhandle. This region has a more variable and extreme environment than areas such as the Florida Keys, where the same species of coral occur. Dr. Brooke hopes to determine how temperature affects coral growth rates.

Atlantic Canyons, a video created by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), describes research done in the mid-Atlantic Canyons located 100 miles offshore Virginia and Maryland. The video includes interviews with Dr. Sandra Brooke and other scientists who participated in research cruises to the Norfolk and Baltimore Canyons from 2011 to 2013.

20 middle school girls from Leon and Gadsden counties had the opportunity to work side-by-side with scientists for the day at the FSUCML. The event, presented by the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS), gave the girls a chance to interact with other female scientists, including Dr. Felicia Coleman and Dr. Sandra Brooke (FSUCML), as well as participate in analyzing scientific data and collection sampling.

Learn more about FSUCML, including the faculty’s work in the policy arena, goliath grouper and coral research, the marine lab master plan, and much more

Dr. Sandra Brooke’s research in the Norfolk Canyon has led to many surprising finds, including the discovery of the third cold seep in the western Atlantic and a deep-water stony coral in a unique location. Learn more about Dr. Brooke’s research, her deep-sea coral conservation efforts, and diversity in the deep-sea.

Normalized relations with Cuba could lead to clues to protecting our coral reefs. Through open collaboration with Cuban scientists and study of their healthy reefs, researchers could find answers to these questions and make strides in restoring marine habitats closer to home.

Dr. Sandra Brooke has an exciting opportunity to collaborate on a proposal in the southern-central Pacific Ocean, which would generate baseline data for assessing impacts of deep-sea hydrothermal vent mining.