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Deby Cassill

Biology Professor Presents Innovative Model for Classifying Animal Species

Deby Cassill’s unique classification model, which was recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, looks at how pressures from natural selection, such as predation and resource scarcity, influence how mothers invest in offspring quantity and quality.

August 28, 2019Research and Innovation

Judkins and members of the science team review footage of the giant squid.

First Research Team to Film Elusive Giant Squid in U.S. Waters Includes USFSP Professor

When USF St. Petersburg Marine Biology Professor Heather Judkins was awoken last week aboard the Research Vessel Point Sur to news that her colleagues had possibly caught a giant squid on camera, Judkins was up faster than you can say the scientific name Architeuthis.

June 24, 2019Research and Innovation

Professor Heather Judkins on board a research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico analyzing a recently captured squid.

Marine Biologist to Explore Gulf’s Uncharted Deep Sea

USFSP Marine Biology Professor Heather Judkins and a team of researchers will spend the next two and a half weeks aboard a NOAA Ocean Exploration research cruise to reveal a bit of that mystery and explore never-before-reached areas of the Gulf of Mexico.

June 5, 2019Research and Innovation

Dr. Heather Judkins

Biology Professor Selected as President of International Cephalopod Council

Dr. Heather Judkins, Assistant Professor of Biology at USF St. Petersburg, has been named the next President of the Cephalopod International Advisory Council (CIAC).

November 16, 2018Research and Innovation

Professor Heather Judkins showing a student a cephalopod.

Conference on Cephalopods to Draw Scientists from Around the World

More than 240 scientists from around the globe will gather at USF St. Petersburg this month to share ideas and discuss research related to an important and increasingly threatened category of marine life: squid, octopus and their relatives, otherwise known as cephalopods.

November 5, 2018Campus News, Events

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