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New College of Florida
 New
College of Florida is an undergraduate public honors college
with a primary focus on liberal arts undergraduate education. Faculty
scholarship addresses a number of topics relevant to the Deepwater
Horizon oil disaster and it’s potential impacts on the nearshore
marine and coastal ecosystems of southwest Florida. These include:
fish sensory physiology, invertebrate ecology and population dynamics,
ecotoxicology, ecological assessment, biochemistry, marine mammal
behavior and cognition, marine policy, mathematical modeling of biological
systems, and fisheries management. New College’s Pritzker Marine
Biology Research Center is a member of the National
Association of Marine Laboratories (NAML) and the regional Southern
Association of Marine Laboratories (SAML). New College has special
local expertise regarding the ecology, communities, and public policies
of Sarasota Bay and the barrier islands and bays of southwest Florida.
The following units are key participants in the Oil
Spill Academic Task Force:
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