Experts Guide

Tabatabaian is an expert in allergy, immunology and infectious disease and can discuss asthma and other heat-related allergies as well as respiratory responses from algal blooms such as red tide.

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.

Liu is a physical oceanographer and director of the Ocean Circulation Lab at the USF College of Marine Science. His research focuses on coastal ocean observations and modeling to monitor and forecast problems such as red tide, storm surge, pollution and sargassum. He aims to better understand the coastal ocean circulation and air-sea interactions on the West Florida Shelf, including the exchanges of water properties between the estuaries, the shelf and the offshore (Loop Current) system of the Gulf of America.