Experts Guide

Hu is an optical oceanographer with a focus on satellite observations to track environmental hazards such as harmful algal blooms, sargassum and pollution.

Ivey studies red tide, harmful algal blooms, water quality and microplastics and the use of a model to estimate the underwater light field through remote sensing of ocean color.

Mars Brisbin is a biological oceanographer with a focus on marine microbes including harmful algal blooms and the effects of extreme weather on coastal and open ocean ecosystems.

Weisberg is a physical oceanographer with a focus on ocean circulation on the West Florida Continental Shelf. His research specialities include the application of ocean physics to understand hurricane storm surge, harmful algal blooms and pollution tracking.

Through his Ocean Circulation Group he coordinates real-time, in-situ measurements, analyses and numerical circulation models aimed at describing and understanding the processes that determine West Florida Continental Shelf water properties.

Frazer is a professor and dean of the College of Marine Science and previously served as chief science officer for the State of Florida. His interdisciplinary research addresses contemporary and emerging environmental issues, including marine ecology, water quality, eutrophication, harmful algal blooms, seagrass, coral reefs, fisheries ecology and management, climate change, conservation and coastal resilience.