FAMU Ph.D. Graduate’s Passion for Environmental Justice Fuels PFAS Research
August 10, 2023
For Saginaw native and CCME-II EPP/MSI Scholar, Andrea Pugh-Kelley, the Flint Water Crisis and contamination of the Great Lakes is personal. In the aftermath of the city of Flint, Michigan, water crisis, Pugh-Kelley wrote her dissertation on PFAS, an emerging major contaminant in the Great Lakes region. READ MORE...
CCME-II Scholars Train Aboard the RV Weatherbird II
July 18, 2023
FIO deployed the R/V Weatherbird II with NOAA CCME-II scholars onboard to conduct field sampling as part of the 2023 CCME-II Center-Wide Core Competence Training.
FAMU CCME II Scholars at Carrabelle Research Cruise
March 30, 2023
CCME-II at FAMU hosted two events in collaboration with NOAA OAR’s Office of Research, Transition, and Application (ORTA) and Uncrewed Systems (UxS) Research Transition Office (UxSRTO). This event, conducted in Carabelle, FL, also included participation from the Florida Institute of Oceanography providing FAMU scholars with an opportunity to participate in hands-on marine research activities aboard the R/V Hogarth. Students were introduced to various ways uncrewed systems are utilized in NOAA research, gained exposure to career paths within NOAA that integrate use of uncrewed systems, and learned about training requirements for operating UAS for research. They engaged in hands-on training on how to use sampling devices such as how to set, deploy, retrieve a shipek sediment sampler. Others also used a benthic trawler and a plankton tow for biological sampling.
Dr. Larry Robinson
Dr. Michael Abazinge 
Dr. Richard Long 
Dr. Viniece Jennings
Dr. Steve Morey
Dr. Bernadette Kelley
Sherry Wells