The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) is the graduate school of marine and atmospheric science within the University of Miami. It is located on a 16 acre (65,000 m²) campus on Virginia Key in Miami, Florida, in the United States.

It is the only subtropical applied and basic marine and atmospheric research institute in the continental United States.

The school is divided into six academic divisions:

• Applied Marine Physics (Fluid dynamics, Waves, Remote sensing)
• Marine & Atmospheric Chemistry
• Marine Affairs & Policy
• Marine Biology & Fisheries
• Marine Geology & Geophysics
• Meteorology & Physical Oceanography

Additionally, professors from RSMAS teach undergraduate courses on the main University of Miami campus in Coral Gables, Florida.

Contents 1 History 2 Description 3 Photos 4 References 5 External links

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The Board of Trustees of the University of Miami created the Marine Laboratory of the university in 1943. They invited researchers and oceanographers to associate themselves with this laboratory. Its three objectives are teaching, basic research, and applied marine research. The laboratory extends its activity into subjects specific for the tropical environment.

In 1947 the Florida legislature, actuated by the Dade delegation, supports the Marine Laboratory as an agency of the State Board of Conservation, which had no marine research facility and little budget of its own. The relationship lasted for 12 years until Florida built its own lab in St. Petersburg. In 1953, on Virginia Key, the actual location of the School, classrooms and laboratories were built. Renamed the Institute of Marine Science in 1961,^[1] during the 1960s it was part of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences.^[2]

By 1969, the institution was a School and named after Dorothy H. and Lewis Rosenstiel after a major contribution from Rosenstiel’s foundation (Rosentiel's fortune was made in liquor distilling) to support progress in atmospheric and marine sciences. Research vessels are bought and more facilities are built during further years to bear research projects.

Oceans and Human Health Center, Pew institute for Ocean Science, National Resource for Aplysia, National Center for Coral Reef Research, the Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences sites for the Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center are research programs developed and added to the Rosenstiel School.

In 2008, the Rosenstiel School took over administrative functions of the undergraduate Marine Science, Marine Affairs, and Meteorology programs, which had previously been jointly administrated by both RSMAS and the University of Miami's College of Arts & Sciences.^[3]

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Research projects at Rosenstiel School are in the domain of atmospheric and marine sciences, with interdisciplinary approaches. - Coral reef research, focusing on corals survival in a new climate conditions; coral reef protection - Field programs evaluating trace gas chemistry and transport - The aquaculture program - Climate change modeling - Air-sea interactions research through buoys, remote sensing, analysis in situ, a wave tank laboratory, numerical modeling; - Volcanoes in the Pacific, Everglades water level measurements and subsidence through satellite images - Studies of the coastal quality and the impact on human health.

Today, at Rosenstiel School, over 200 professors and scientists conduct research programs and teach.

The school operates the F.G. Walton Smith research vessel. Designed after the school's specifications, the catamaran was put on water in 2000. The Invertebrate Museum within the School includes Atlantic tropical marine invertebrates. The collection consists of 60,000 lots out of which 38,900 are cataloged and identified species.

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Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Entrance Plate	Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Courtyard	Rosenstiel School of Marine and Applied Science, Applied Marine Physics	Rosenstiel School of Marine and Applied Science, Walton Smith, Research Vessel
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Applied Science, Sunset View from the Dock

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[edit] External links

• University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Official Web Site.

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