Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS /IPA|ɹʷaz.məs/) 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. The school has its own research vessel, the "RV F. G. Walton Smith", named after the founder of the school.

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
* 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.

History

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 research facility and little budget of its own. In 1953, on Virginia Key, the actual location of the School, classrooms and laboratories were built. Renamed the Institute of Marine Science in 1961, [Citation
title =DOROTHY H. AND LEWIS ROSENSTIEL SCHOOL OF MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE
url =http://www6.miami.edu/umbulletin/und/marine/index.htm
accessdate =2007-11-13 ] during the 1960s it was part of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences. [Citation
title =SEMIANNUAL STATUS REPORT NASA GRANT NGR-10-007-010
date =1966-10-31
year =1966
url =http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19670082520_1967082520.pdf
accessdate =2007-11-13 ]

By 1969, the institution was a School and named after Dorothy H. and Lewis Rosenstiel, after a major contribution from Rosenstiel’s foundation 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. Today, at Rosenstiel School, over 100 scientists conduct research programs and teach.

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External links

* [http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/ University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Official Web Site] .