USF Board of Trustees February 6 th , 2014 CMS Dean: Jacqueline Dixon
Who are we? • C.W. Young Marine Science Complex • 26 Tenure-track Faculty • 104 graduate students (M.S. and Ph.D.) • ~$14 M in research funding ($12 M expenditures + $2 M F&A) • Local, regional, national, international partners National: FIO/SPOT/COL/SAML/NAML International: Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Korea , China
Balancing Research and Education • USF strives to become similar to AAU Public Universities. • Research and graduate education are main indicators used by AAU to evaluate universities for membership. • Phase I indicators 1. Competitively funded federal research support 2. Membership in the National Academies 3. Faculty awards 4. Citations • Phase II indicators 1. USDA, state, and industrial research funding 2. Doctoral education 3. Number of postdoctoral appointees 4. Undergraduate education
Increasing Federal Competitive Awards 10,000,000 Expenditures - Federal Awards CMS Fed. $ 9,000,000 $8.6M 8,000,000 7,000,000 6,000,000 5,000,000 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Year
Increasing Federal Awards per Faculty Member Expenditures/TT - Federal Awards 600,000 CMS FedComp$/TT 500,000 400,000 $360K 300,000 200,000 100,000 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Year
Highest per Faculty Research Productivity in Academic Affairs F&A not included 400,000 CompFed$/TT 350,000 Federal R&D per TT Faculty Includes Dean’s Office 300,000 250,000 200,000 150,000 100,000 50,000 0 A&S CBS BUS EDU ENG GS CMS ART HON US College or Unit
CMS is 2.7% of Academic Affairs Faculty and produces 13% of the R&D $ 0.5 0.30 Academic Affairs Fraction Research $ (R&D+F&A) Fraction Tenure-Track Faculty Total # Instructional Faculty = 1021 Total # TT Faculty = 786 0.25 0.4 0.20 0.3 0.15 13% 0.2 0.10 0.1 0.05 2.7% 0.00 0.0 A&S CBS BUS EDU ENG GS CMS ArtsHonors UG A&S CBS BUS EDU ENG GS CMS ArtsHonors UG College or Unit College or Unit
Balancing Research and Education “ A hallmark of the American university system is the marriage of research with the training of the next generation of scientists and engineers. The university research enterprise ensures continuity between the newest thinking in every field and those who will carry its seeds into industry, medicine, public service” 2002 AAU White Paper on America’s Research Universities RESEARCH is TEACHING!!!
Excellence in Graduate Education • Mentored graduate degrees • >1/4 of graduate students received external awards • High placement rates Out of 8 recent Ph.D.s: • 5 hired as post-docs • 2 hired as new faculty • 1 hired at state research agency • 3 under-represented minority Ph.D.s • Success with under-represented minorities consistently higher than national average.
Faculty Awards - National • Dr. Cameron Ainsworth received a 2013 Sloan Fellowship for early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Cam is one of only two Sloan Fellowships awarded this year in the state of Florida. • Dr. Mya Breitbart was selected by Popular Science magazine (October 2013 issue) as one of their “ Brilliant 10 ”— an annual feature profiling 10 young scientists who are doing truly groundbreaking work in their fields. • Dr. Robert Byrne was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (Dec. 2012), USF Excellence in Innovation Reward (2012), and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, Feb. 2014) • Dr. Eugene Domack was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (Dec. 2012) and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, Feb. 2013) • Dr. Steve Murawski was appointed as the United States Academic Delegate to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and as a committee member for the Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences 2015 ( NAS committee )
Faculty Awards – Community • ARCS Collaborative Award Ceremony on February 9 th , 2013 honored “Catalysts in STEM”. CMS faculty and staff, including Drs. Kendra Daly, Al Hine, David Hollander, Ernst Peebles, Robert Weisberg, and Chad Lembke . • Dr. Pamela Hallock Muller was chosen as one of the Top 25 Women Professors in Florida . Hallock Muller specializes in the research of human impact on coral reefs. • USF College of Marine Science was selected to be the Hillsborough County Secondary Business Partner of the Year and Dr. Frank Muller Karger was selected as the Business Partner of the Year ( nominated by the Stewart Middle Magnet school).
College of Marine Science Research • There is only one ocean – Global Observations and Processes – Interdisciplinary Research with Shared Infrastructure ships/satellites/buoys/moorings/gliders/ROVs/Analytical Facilities – Innovation and Technology Development Essential • Globally Significant & Regionally Relevant Research – Ocean & Human Health – Ocean Observing & Modeling – Sensor Development – Marine Ecosystem & Resource Assessment – Climate Change – Past, Present, & Future – C-IMAGE GoMRI Consortium
Ocean & Human Health Breitbart Group: First Discovery of Viruses in Copepods • Copepods are most abundant animals in the oceans, playing critical roles in marine food webs and global carbon cycling • 35% of copepod death has unknown cause (not explained by predation); ocean health/chemistry is possible cause (link to human cancers?) • Using genomics and microscopy, Breitbart lab documented FIRST evidence for viral infection copepods (Dunlap et al., PNAS 2013)
Ocean Observing & Modeling Muller-Karger Group: CARIACO Ocean Time-Series Studying linkages between oceanographic conditions and past climate changes International Collaboration - NSF and Venezuelan Govt funding since 1995 Long-term decrease in productivity and regional sardine fishery being caused by warming of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea, which has led to northward shift of Intertropical Convergence Zone
Ocean Observing & Modeling: Remote Sensing Hu Group: Selected Highlights on Global & Gulf of Mexico Research Hu, Li, Pichel et al. (2009) on Ma, Duan, Hu, et al. (2010) on Hu, Weisberg, et al. (2011) on Gulf of Mexico oil seeps China’s shrinking lakes Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Ocean Observing & Climate Change & New Sensors Byrne Group: Ocean Acidification • High precision and high spatial resolution measurements of carbonate saturation states off the California Coast and Arctic. • Data obtained using novel spectrophotometric procedures developed in our college, plus pH and carbonate data obtained by Ph.D. student Mark Patsavas on a 2011 NOAA cruise.
New Sensors & Commercialization : Paul Group: Grouper Forensics: What’s in your sandwich?? Asian catfish ? Fla Grouper Grouper Imposter The Real Deal ? ? Grouper Not Grouper
Climate Change – Past & Present Shevenell Group: Southern Ocean warming, Antarctic ice sheet evolution, and global change • Ongoing multi-disciplinary oceanographic research is investigating Southern Ocean-glacial ice interactions in East Antarctica • Warm Southern Ocean waters are melting Antarctic glaciers, implications for sea level rise in Florida • USF CMS paleoceanographers reconstruct past (0- Shevenell et al., 34 Ma) ocean temperatures from fossilized Nature, 2011 microorganisms found in Southern Ocean marine sediments. • Data published in Science and Nature reveal past Antarctic ice sheet retreat occurred during intervals of Southern Ocean warming and elevated atmospheric CO 2 . In Mulvaney et al., Nature,2012
April 20, 2010 Explosion and Fire on Transocean Ltd’s Drilling Rig - Deepwater Horizon Explosion
Steve Murawski, PI USF, Scripps, USF, Mote SAlabama, WFla TAMU UMiami TUHH USF UCalgary USF, Calgary, Eckerd, PSU, Wageningen,WFla
Integrated sediment & fish sampling R/V Weatherbird II - 2012
Laser Ablation & ICP-MS analysis of otoliths Peebles group: Using fish earbones as recorders of past contamination of fish by oil. Peebles/USF
Community Engagement via field courses, training, and professional development at our Clam Bayou Marine Education Center
Blue Ocean Film Festival coming to St. Petersburg, Nov 2 – 9, 2014 Official announcement in early Oct. 2013
USF College of Marine Science • Thank you for your support for the R/V Weatherbird II and R/V Bellows replacement • Additional assistance? – Help with competition for state RESTORE Act Funds – Recognition of the role of research and graduate education in USF’s strategic vision – Recognition of the high cost of research and innovation • Questions?
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