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UGalapagos Update: Dive On In With Local “Marine Experts”

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RSMAS student Katie and a local "marine expert"

In the UGalapagos semester, the students are nearing the end of their marine ecology course and have been looking forward to spring break this week (a week earlier than the break in Miami). They have spent two intensive weeks sampling nearshore marine environments, often with the help of friendly sea lions. These pictures show several students getting advice on snorkeling and underwater data collection from the lobos (lobo marinos = sea lions). Sea lions also helped the students by picking up their transect lines and relocating them (to better spots, no doubt) while the students were collecting data. Also shown here are students returning from snorkeling on an afternoon field trip and a typical sunset in front of IOI where UGalapagos is based.

RSMAS student Ryan getting some free diving lessons

Returning from a snorkeling trip

Sunset on Isabela

Dr. Michael Schmale
Professor, Marine Biology & Fisheries
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RSMAS Undergrad Gets Involved – Takes Full Advantage of Time at Univ. of Miami

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Hi my name is Ian Chambers and I am a senior undergraduate marine science & biology major here at “The U!” Some of you may know me from Rho Rho Rho, or attending UMiami sporting events, or maybe just seeing me around campus. But what a lot of undergrads don’t realize is that I had the opportunity to be involved with many different things out at RSMAS in my 4 years.

I currently am working on an independent study in Dr. Michael Schmale’s lab, and my main objective is to characterize all the different cell lines that have been immortalized. Dr. Schmale’s lab is working to determine mechanisms responsible for the transformation of health cells to cancerous transmissible tumors in fish.

My research involves the use of fluorescent dyes on these tumor cell cultures, and imaging their DNA and mitochondria. I am keying in on differences of cells in order to describe and quantify the cancer lines. Above is one of my fluorescent images I’ve been working on, with the nuclei dyed green and mitochondria red.

Ian Chambers
Senior, Marine Science & Biology
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