Research Highlights

1. A global ocean survey of anthropogenic and organic carbon, and tracers of ocean circulation;

2. Extensive field programs assessing trace gas chemistry and transport;

3. Comprehensive air-sea interaction research including design and deployment of air-sea flux buoys, analyses of in situ and remote sensing data, a salt-water wave tank laboratory, and numerical modeling of a variety of phenomena including hurricanes and ENSO;

4. An Aquaculture Program that focuses on the technological, environmental and economical feasibility of sustainable aquaculture operations;

5. A multi-disciplinary assessment of the value of climate forecasting for agricultural production in North and South Americas;

6. A Reefs of Hope project that aims to understand how reefs in different parts of the world will respond to climate change;

7. A research that combines animal physiology, molecular biology, pharmacology and toxicology to understand the impact of coastal environment on human health;

8. Applications of satellite data in detecting structures of active volcanoes in the Pacific, the water level in the Everglades, and man-made land subsidence in a number of metropolitan areas;

9. A study of the Caribbean climate with a focus on the Mid Summer Drought.