Chasing the lionfish: FIU researchers find predator in troubling waters

Photo courtesy of Matthew L. Wittenrich

The invasion has reached the Loxahatchee River. Lionfish, native to oceans halfway around the world, have reached the estuary near Jupiter, threatening the local ecosystems. Researchers at Florida International University have discovered the foreign predator, an invasive species originally from the Indo-Pacific region, nearly three miles inside the Loxahatchee River. [...]

Top scholars from across the disciplines honored

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FIU President Modesto A. Maidique recognized FIU faculty members from a breadth of disciplines for their outstanding achievements in research and scholarship at a reception on Tuesday, March 31, at the Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Home locatedĀ at University Park. More than two dozen distinguished members of the FIU academic community [...]