Researchers Map Wide Impacts of Fire-induced Permafrost Thaw in Alaska
ÑDz©¹ÙÍø researchers have developed a new machine learning approach to quantify fire-induced thaw settlement across the entire Tanana Flats in Alaska, which encompasses more than 3 million acres.
Study Resolves 50-Year Dispute of Teleost Fishes Ancestral Lineage
ÑDz©¹ÙÍø Harbor Branch's Sahar Mejri, Ph.D., is among a team of scientists to use genome mapping to demonstrate sister groups from a common evolutionary ancestor.
Copy-cat? Study Explores Conformity in Children with Few Friends
What gives one friend influence over another and why? ÑDz©¹ÙÍø researchers tested the theory that children with few friends protect these friendships through conformity to stay in a friend's "good graces."
Effects of Resistance Training in Older Adults at the Cellular Level
ÑDz©¹ÙÍø researchers conducted a study to explore the effects of resistance training in older adults, taking research one step further in helping to elucidate the benefits of exercise in this population.
Noise from Urban Environments Affects the Color of Songbirds' Beaks
A study on cognition, beak color, and growth in the zebra finch suggests exposure to urban noise may affect their structural traits, such as beak color, which influence social interactions and mate choice.
ÑDz©¹ÙÍø Receives $1 Million NSF Grant to Empower Women in STEM Faculty
The three-year NSF grant will help to ensure appropriate representation of women in STEM faculty and continues the work of the late Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., who served as a research professor at ÑDz©¹ÙÍø.
ÑDz©¹ÙÍø Study Finds Low Salinity Can Work to Culture Florida Pompano Fish
ÑDz©¹ÙÍø Harbor Branch researchers are the first to conduct a low salinity study on Florida pompano to determine the optimal salinity required to culture juvenile fish from hatch to weaning under on-farm conditions.
Study Explores Shark Nose Shape, Size and Link to Sensitivity of Smell
ÑDz©¹ÙÍø researchers are the first to quantify olfactory organ morphology in fine detail among a diverse set of shark species using dissections, phylogenetic comparisons, and a new technique, called diceCT imaging.
Researchers Inducted into ÑDz©¹ÙÍø Chapter of National Academy of Inventors
Four ÑDz©¹ÙÍø researchers representing engineering, medicine, science and Harbor Branch will be inducted into the ÑDz©¹ÙÍø Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors®.
Early Disinterest in School Snowballs into Academic, Social Problems
A prior study by a researcher at ÑDz©¹ÙÍø and collaborators found starting off on the wrong foot academically, particularly with math and reading, cascades into peer problems during the first years of school.