Welcome to the Official USF College of Marine Science Facebook Page. You can find out more about USFCMS at http://www.marine.usf.edu/
USF is a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success.
The University of South Florida is a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success. USF ranks 50th in the nation for federal expenditures in research and total expenditures in research among all U.S. universities, public or private, according to the National Science Foundation.
Serving more than 47,000 students, the USF System has an annual budget of $1.5 billion and an annual economic impact of $3.7 billion. USF is a member of the Big East Athletic Conference.
Our mission as a graduate research program is to accomplish the following:
Conduct interdisciplinary basic and applied research in ocean science to discover solutions to local, regional, state, national, and global problems of climate change, marine resource depletion, environmental degradation, water contamination, disease, and ecosystem management.
Generate, disseminate and translate new knowledge across the marine science disciplines of biology, chemistry, geology, and physics
Develop new technologies and tools for exploring the coupled ocean-atmosphere-land system
Graduate outstanding marine scientists who are well prepared for positions in academe, industry, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations at local to international levels
