Tag Archives: NSU Guy Harvey Research Institute
Longtime NSU Supporter Guy Harvey Interviewed by WLRN
For many years, Dr. Guy Harvey has been a supporter of Nova Southeastern University, with his focus in the Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography. His philanthropic support led to the creation of NSU’s Guy Harvey Research Institute as well as the naming of the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center…
BREAKING NEWS – WINNERS NAMED IN 2018 SHARK RACE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ** BREAKING NEWS ** BREAKING NEWS ** The DeSantis and Nelson Sharks Have Won NSU’s Shark Race to the Governor’s Mansion and U.S. Senate FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. – The results are in. With just a few days before the 2018 Midterm Elections, Nova Southeastern University’s…
NSU Shark Race to Governor’s Mansion and U.S. Senate Getting Media Attention
Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) shark researchers are at it again! Off their stunningly successful Shark Race to the White House in 2016, which was one of the only polls to correctly predict the next President of the United States, researchers at NSU’s Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) have identified four sharks to help predict winners…
Satellite-Tagged Shortfin Mako Shark Has Ocean Journey Cut Short
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. – For one week every year people seem glued to their televisions watching program after program about sharks. After that week, the spotlight on sharks seems to fade – but not for the researchers who are studying these apex predators all 52 weeks…
Recent Whale Shark Study Receiving Media Interest
It’s a whale of a story – literally! Recently research scientists from Nova Southeastern University‘s (NSU) Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) worked with collaborators from the Maldives Whale Shark Research Programme on a study of whale sharks, the world’s largest fish. The report, available ONLINE, used repeated noninvasive underwater measurements of live sharks over the course…
NSU Marine Research Scientists Participating in Annual Tortuga Music Festival
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. – It has become one of the premier music events in the United States – the annual Tortuga Music Festival on world-famous Fort Lauderdale Beach. Part of the three-day event is the Rock the Ocean Conservation Village where research scientists and organizations come…
NSU’s Tagged Tiger Shark Featured in Multiple Media Stories
Travelling approximately 37,565 miles off the eastern coast of the United States and around Bermuda, the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos, Andy is now the longest tracked tiger shark on record and shows no sign of slowing down. More than 150 media outlets across the globe featured this story. Some…
Tagged Tiger Shark Proving Unstoppable
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. – Not freezing temperatures nor nor’easters nor Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose or Maria can stop “Andy,” a tiger shark tagged in Bermuda by scientists from Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) in 2014. Travelling approximately 37,565 miles off the eastern coast…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. – Having one shark expert in one location out of the water is rare; having two in the same place at the same time is almost unheard of. Well, that’s exactly what’s happening when internationally renowned marine artist, scientist and explorer Dr. Guy Harvey…
NSU’s Guy Harvey Research Institute Tagged Tiger Shark Breaks Distance Record – And Is Still Going!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 28, 2017 FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. – A tiger shark named “Andy” is like the marine version of the Energizer Bunny – he keeps going and going and going… Andy, tagged in Bermuda in 2014 by Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI,) has…
NSU’s GHRI Study Shows Ocean’s Fastest Shark Is Being Threatened By Over Fishing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. – More bad news for sharks. A new study using satellite tracking by researchers from Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI), the University of Rhode Island and other colleagues shows that the fishing mortality rate of the shortfin mako in the…
Chasing the Fastest Shark in the World is No Easy Task
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. – By all accounts, it was a very successful research trip. When you’re studying the fastest sharks, there are a lot of variables that can come into play during a research trip. The weather may not cooperate, which can limit the time you…
Mako Shark Takes Winter Break in South Florida
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Apparently snowbirds aren’t the only visitors making their way to South Florida this winter. For the first time ever, a mako shark tagged off the coast of Maryland has migrated along the eastern seaboard down to South Florida. Hypower, a male mako…
Spread of Lionfish in Gulf of Mexico is Threat to Reef Fisheries
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. – As the old saying goes: “You can’t put the genie back in the bottle.” Nowhere is this more evident than with the spread of lionfish, an invasive, non-native species that is threatening the marine ecosystems across the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and Atlantic…
Shark Immunity Genes May Hold Secrets That Can Ultimately Benefit Humans
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fort Lauderdale/Davie, FL & Ithaca, NY – A new genomics study of shark DNA, including from great white and great hammerhead sharks, reveals unique modifications in their immunity genes that may underlie the rapid wound healing and possibly higher resistance to cancers in these ocean predators….
Tagged Mako Shark Takes Amazing 13,000 Mile Journey
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. – A male mako shark named Hell’s Bay has broken a record, traveling more than 13,000 miles, equal to over half-way around the planet, in 600 days. It is the longest track ever in the Atlantic Ocean by a mako shark tagged by…
Shark Tagging Expedition Kicks-Off Annual Great Shark Race
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. – Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) and The Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation (GHOF) recently hosted a cage dive and tagging expedition in Isla Mujeres, Mexico in advance of the Second Annual Great Shark Race. The Isla Mujeres expedition, the…
Two Mako Sharks Tagged by NSU Researchers Spending Spring Break Off South Carolina Coast
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT LAUDERDALE-DAVIE, Fla. – Who knew that sharks like to hit the beach for Spring Break, too! Well, they aren’t exactly hitting the beach, but two mako sharks tagged by Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) are enjoying the waters off the South…
Presenting Sponsor for Inaugural Blazing Mako Tournament & Festival Named
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT LAUDERDALE – DAVIE, Fla. — They say the family that fishes together stays together, and for South Florida’s Davis family, that tradition also includes supporting the Blazing Mako Tournament & Festival—a June event that will combine fishing, conservation, research and marine science scholarships. Nova Southeastern University (NSU)…
Nova Southeastern Researcher Studying Potential Invasive Species in Southern Gulf of Mexico
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT LAUDERDALE-DAVIE, Fla. – In fairytales, it’s usually the damsel who is in distress. When it comes to the marine world, however, it seems it’s the damsel that can cause some distress. Damselfish are some of the most beautiful fishes in the ocean, and that’s why…