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==History==
==History==
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The Board of Trustees of the University of Miami created the Marine Laboratory of the University in 1943.<ref name=hist/> They invited researchers and oceanographers to associate themselves with this laboratory. Its three objectives are teaching, basic research, and applied marine research. The laboratory extends its activity into subjects specific for the tropical environment.
The Board of Trustees of the University of Miami created the Marine Laboratory of the University in 1943.<ref name=hist/> They invited researchers and oceanographers to associate themselves with this laboratory. Its three objectives are teaching, basic research, and applied marine research. The laboratory extends its activity into subjects specific for the tropical environment.


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Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science's logo
The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science's logo
Former names
University of Miami Marine Lab
Established1943
DeanRoni Avissar
Associate Dean for ResearchRobert K. Cowen
Postgraduates202[1]
Location
Virginia Key, Miami
,
Florida
,
USA

25°43′57″N 80°09′48″W / 25.7324785°N 80.1632452°W / 25.7324785; -80.1632452
CampusUrban

The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS [pronounced /ˈræz.məs/]) is a college and research institute for the study of oceanography and the atmospheric sciences within the University of Miami. It is located on a 16 acre (65,000 m²) campus on Virginia Key in Miami, Florida, USA. It is the only subtropical applied and basic marine and atmospheric research institute in the continental United States.[2]

Up until 2008, RSMAS was solely a graduate school within the University of Miami, while they jointly administrated an undergraduate program with UM's College of Arts and Sciences; as of 2008, the Rosenstiel School has taken over administrative responsibilities for the undergraduate program, adding the Bachelor of Science in Marine and Atmospheric Science (BSMAS) and Bachelor of Arts in Marine Affairs (BAMA) baccalaureate degrees to the master's and doctorates bestowed by the institution. A Master of Professional Science degree is also awarded by RSMAS.[3]

The Rosenstiel School's research includes the study marine life, particularly Aplysia and coral; climate change; air-sea interactions; coastal ecology; and admiralty law. The school operates a marine research laboratory ship, and has a research site at an inland sinkhole. Research also includes the use of data from weather satellites and the school operates its own satellite downlink facility.

History

The Board of Trustees of the University of Miami created the Marine Laboratory of the University in 1943.[4] They invited researchers and oceanographers to associate themselves with this laboratory. Its three objectives are teaching, basic research, and applied marine research. The laboratory extends its activity into subjects specific for the tropical environment.

In 1947, the Florida State Legislature, prompted by the Dade County delegation, supported the Marine Laboratory as an agency of the State Board of Conservation, which had no marine research facility and little budget of its own. The relationship lasted for 12 years until the state of Florida built its own lab in St. Petersburg. In 1953, the current location of the School's classrooms and laboratories were built on Virginia Key. Renamed the Institute of Marine Science in 1961,[4] it was part of the University of Miami's School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences.[5]

In 1969, the institution was made into an independent school and named after Lewis and Dorothy H. Rosenstiel after a major contribution from the Rosenstiel's foundation (the Rosenstiels' fortune was made in liquor distilling) to support progress in atmospheric and marine sciences. The school bought Research vessels and built more facilities during further years to bear research projects. From 2003 to 2008, the school operated the Pew Institute for Ocean Science as a joint venture with the The Pew Charitable Trusts. However, in 2008 the program relocated to SUNY at Stony Brook.[6][7]

In 2008, RSMAS took over administrative functions of the University of Miami's undergraduate Marine Science, Marine Affairs, and Meteorology programs, which had previously been jointly administrated by both RSMAS and Miami's College of Arts & Sciences.[8] Also in 2008, RSMAS's library merged with the central University of Miami Library.[9] Recently, RSMAS started a one-year Master of Professional Science degree program.[3]

Academics

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science's courtyard, with the Grosvenor Building on the left.

The School is an integral part of the University of Miami, and all graduate work is "under the direction of" the Dean of UM's Graduate School.[10] The School also offers a joint program with the UM Law School which awards its students both a JD degree and a Master of Arts in Marine Affairs and Policy.[11] RSMAS also administrates the University of Miami's undergraduate Marine Science, Marine Affairs, and Meteorology programs on the main campus in Coral Gables, Florida.[8]

The Rosenstiel School is divided into six academic divisions, each focused on a different aspect of oceanography.

The Oceans and Human Health Center, the National Resource for Aplysia, the National Center for Coral Reef Research, the Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS), and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences sites for the Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center are research programs developed and added to RSMAS.

As of 2011, at Rosenstiel School, 358 professors and scientists conduct research programs and teach.[18] Of these, 81 are regular full-time faculty.[19]

The school operates the F.G. Walton Smith research vessel. Designed after the school's specifications, the catamaran was put on water in 2000. It is used for research in the shallow water environments of Florida and the Bahamas. It is equipped with a special sea water flow system that can take samples and perform chemical analysis on board. It also has transducers for measuring ocean currents, sub-bottom profiling and deep water bathymetry.[20] In response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the vessel was reassigned to environmental monitoring of affected areas and to track underwater plumes of oil.[21][22]

The Invertebrate Museum within the School includes Atlantic tropical marine invertebrates. The collection consists of 60,000 lots out of which 38,900 are cataloged and identified species.[23]

Since 2005, RSMAS has conducted its Underwater Photography Contest which is open to photographers who earn no more than 20 percent of their income from photography. The contest draws international submissions and is judged by a panel of experts in underwater photography and fine arts.[24] RSMAS also makes underwater photographs available through its Digital Atlas of Marine Species and Locations, which is a database of data, including photos, of specific marine species.[25]

Since 1951, RSMAS has published the Bulletin of Marine Science a scientific journal which publishes research papers in marine biology, biological oceanography, fisheries, marine policy, applied marine physics, marine geology and geophysics, marine and atmospheric chemistry, meteorology, and physical oceanography. It is published four times a year.[26]

The National Research Council ranked graduate research program based on 2008 data, and RSMAS ranked 11th to 40th among Oceanography, Atmospheric Sciences, and Meteorology Rankings. The RSMAS entering graduate students' Average Quantitative GRE score was 681.[27]

Campus

The Virginia Key 18 acres (73,000 m2) campus includes classroom facilities, laboratories, a dock, and a student center called the F. G. Walton Smith Commons which holds a cafeteria and a bar that was rated as one of Miami's best secrets by the Miami New Times in 2008.[28] The RSMAS campus features mangroves, sea grape trees, and other dune plants to protect its sand dunes and to protect the campus from storm damage.[29] In 2009, UM received a $15 million federal grant to help construct a new $43.8 million, 56,500 square feet (5,250 m2) Marine Technology and Life Sciences Seawater Research Building.[30] The Virginia Key campus is part of a 65 acres (260,000 m2) marine research and education park that includes two NOAA research laboratories, the MAST Academy magnet school,[31] and the Miami Seaquarium.

RSMAS also operates a 76 acres (310,000 m2) site on mainland Miami-Dade County that was formerly the United States Naval Observatory Secondary National Time Standard Facility, which already had buildings and a 20M antenna used for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI).[32] The Rosenstiel School's Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS) and Richmond Satellite Operations Center (RSOC) have research facilities located on what was named the Richmond Campus.[31]

Research

As of 2008, RSMAS receives $50 million in annual external research funding.[33] Laboratories at Virginia Key are equipped with state-of-the-art instruments including a salt-water wave tank, the five-tank Conditioning and Spawning Systems, multi-tank Aplysia Culture Laboratory, Controlled Corals Climate Tanks, and DNA analysis equipment. The Rosenstiel School's research invertebrate museum houses one of the world's most extensive collections of invertebrate tropical marine life with 400,000 specimens. The Richmond Campus' CSTARS provides RSMAS with a near-real-time satellite downlink. The Rosenstiel School also operates the Bimini Biological Field Station,[34] an array of oceanographic high-frequency radar along the US east coast, and the Bermuda aerosol observatory.[35] Since 1977, the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS), a scientific partnership between UM and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been studying climate change, air-sea interactions and coastal ecology.[36]

Research projects at RSMAS are in the domain of atmospheric and marine sciences, with interdisciplinary approaches:

  • Coral reef research, focusing on corals survival in a new climate conditions; coral reef protection
  • Field programs evaluating trace gas chemistry and transport
  • The aquaculture program
  • Climate change modeling
  • Tropical weather, climate, and atmospheric/oceanic circulations
  • Air-sea interactions research through buoys, remote sensing, analysis in situ, a wave tank laboratory, numerical modeling;
  • Volcanoes in the Pacific, Everglades water level measurements and subsidence through satellite images
  • Studies of the coastal quality and the impact on human health.
A satellite photo of Little Salt Spring. The field laboratory and dormitories are left of center; the dock over the water is used by research divers when excavating.

RSMAS's Marine Affairs & Policy Division also conducts archaeological and paleontological research at Little Salt Spring in Sarasota County.[37][38][39] The site was donated to the University of Miami in 1982.[40] RSMAS also hosts the National Center for Coral Reef Research (NCORE), which works to understand, conserve and manage coral reefs worldwide.[41]

RSMAS has focused significant resources to studying the Gulf oil spill and its long term environmental effect.[42] The school is an active member of the State of Florida's Oil Spill Academic Task Force that works with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection on spill issues.[43] In the summer of 2010, a CIMAS team working with the research vessel Walton Smith was able to document a 23 mile long oil plume extending toward the Dry Tortugas.[44]

The Corporación Andina de Fomento has awarded a grant to RSMAS to conduct a feasibility study for a new experimental water tunnel facility located in Panama. The proposed Water Tunnel of the Americas at the Panama Canal (WTAPC) would be the largest water tunnel facility in the world. The facility would be similar to a wind tunnel, but would flow water at high velocity around the objects being studied.[45]

The quality of the school is evaluated through peer-reviewed competition for faculty research grants. In addition, each year, the National Science Foundation conduct a nation-wide student competition for Graduate Research Award Fellowship, and in 2010, five RSMAS students received such awards with two additional honorable mentions.[46]

Notable faculty

Image gallery

  • Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Entrance Plate
    Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Entrance Plate
  • Rosenstiel School of Marine and Applied Science, Applied Marine Physics
    Rosenstiel School of Marine and Applied Science, Applied Marine Physics
  • Rosenstiel School of Marine and Applied Science, Walton Smith, Research Vessel
    Rosenstiel School of Marine and Applied Science, Walton Smith, Research Vessel
  • Rosenstiel School of Marine and Applied Science, Sunset View from the Dock
    Rosenstiel School of Marine and Applied Science, Sunset View from the Dock

See also

References

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