News
October 29, 2025
Nearly 70 FAU faculty are ranked among the world's top 2% of scientists by Stanford-Elsevier, recognizing their global research impact across 22 fields and 174 subfields from engineering to humanities.
October 17, 2025
FAU Harbor Branch researchers have received the 2025 Responsible Seafood Innovation Award in Aquaculture from the Global Seafood Alliance for its Queen Conch Lab's pioneering work in sustainable aquaculture.
September 25, 2025
Funded by the U.S. EPA, the project marks the first genetic assessment of sponge recovery in the region, with broad implications for ecosystem health and economically important species like the spiny lobster.
September 18, 2025
FAU researchers used 12 years of underwater audio to study red hind groupers, whose sounds reveal courtship, mating and territorial behavior - offering key clues to ocean changes through sound.
September 04, 2025
FAU Harbor Branch researcher Amy Wright, Ph.D., has received the prestigious Norman R. Farnsworth ASP Research Achievement Award, the highest accolade presented by the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP).
August 29, 2025
For the first time, FAU-USF researchers have found direct genomic evidence of the Plague of Justinian in the Eastern Mediterranean, where the world's first recorded pandemic began nearly 1,500 years ago.
August 28, 2025
FAU Harbor Branch's landmark review reveals 40 years of change in pelagic sargassum - its growth, drivers and rising biomass across the North Atlantic, impacting the ocean's vital ecosystem.
August 01, 2025
Housed at FAU, the Florida Office of Ocean Economy was created to position the state as a global leader in ocean-linked industries and to build the foundation for a thriving ocean economy.
July 23, 2025
FAU Harbor Branch researchers are the first to successfully develop and field-test a multi-sensor biologging tag on the elusive whitespotted eagle ray, providing vital insights into their behavior.
July 09, 2025
FAU Harbor Branch researchers and collaborators will study how ocean currents and river nutrients affect deep coral ecosystems on the West Florida Shelf - one of the gulf's largest and least-studied habitats.