Our students are conducting diverse studies across disciplines and advancing technologies that will help protect the environment in South Florida and beyond. Learn more about these featured projects:
CREST student awarded fellowship to study resilience of mangroves against coastal hazards
Alex Crow, one of the very first CREST undergraduate research fellows and now an incoming graduate student in the Department of Earth and Environment, was recently awarded the FIU-Rookery Bay’s Research and Education Graduate Assistantship to study how mangroves react to coastal hazards.
Explore Our Activities
Browse our photo galleries from Research Experiences for Undergraduates, workshops, field research and more.
Join our team on a journey up the Miami River.
We hosted a research tour of the Miami River to showcase research conducted by students and scientists in local waterways.
Video of our first buoy deployment which monitors water quality and serves as an early alert system for harmful algal blooms.
Video of our second research buoy deployment at a Coral Gables canal to monitor water quality.
Video of our third research buoy deployment in "Heart Harbor" in Tavernier, Florida, to monitor water quality.
Video of our team of engineering students building their very own aquatic surface vehicle.
CREST in the News
Coastlines and Oceans DivsionSmall plastics can lead to a big problem
- Science & Technology
Could a little tough love help corals adapt to climate change?
- Science & Technology
FIU experts available to discuss Biscayne Bay
- Campus & Community
FIU receives South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s Good 2 Green Award
- Announcements
From Minnesota to Miami, student studies mangroves during REU program
- Biological Sciences
Undergrads across the U.S. join unique coastal environmental research experience at FIU
