Halmos College of Arts and Sciences

Satellite Tagging Reveals Birthing Migration of Critically Endangered Scalloped Hammerhead Shark

Posted on July 9, 2025 by iharrell

Scientists from the Charles Darwin Foundation’s shark ecology and conservation program, the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Research Center and Guy Harvey Research Institute at Nova Southeastern University (USA), and the Galapagos National Park Directorate (GNPD), have published what is likely the first-ever scientifically recorded birthing migration for the critically endangered scalloped hammerhead shark (sphyrna lewini). Continue Reading →

Guy Harvey Foundation International Ocean Film Festival Makes Waves in Fort Lauderdale

Posted on June 23, 2025 by iharrell

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. – A celebration of ocean conservation, storytelling, and science came to life as a prelude to World Ocean Day during the Guy Harvey Foundation’s Third Annual International Ocean Film Festival on June 7, presented in partnership with…… Continue Reading →

NBC Interviews NSU Researcher About Recent Shark Sighting

Posted on June 20, 2025 by iharrell

Nova Southeastern University Professor Mahmood Shivji – director of the Guy Harvey Research Institute and the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Research Center – provided his expertise to NBC 6 on Thursday, June 19, 2025, regarding a shark sighting in…… Continue Reading →

NSU Researchers Assist Smithsonian in Battling Deadly Coral Reef Disease

Posted on June 5, 2025 by iharrell

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Scientists with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, with the assistance of Nova Southeastern University coral researchers, have discovered that a bacterial probiotic can slow the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), an…… Continue Reading →

Fort Lauderdale Magazine Features Coral-Bleaching Study

Posted on June 2, 2025 by jprofett

NSU research scientist Karen Neely, with the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences’ disease intervention laboratory, and her team monitored more than 4,200 brain and boulder coral colonies across five offshore and four inshore reefs for mortality during a huge…… Continue Reading →