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FIT's Vero Beach Marine Laboratory - Tracking Station. Larval spiny lobster rearing facility.
FIT's Vero Beach Marine Laboratory - Tracking Station. Larval spiny lobster rearing facility.
Larval spiny lobster rearing facility with continues seawater flow through tanks.
Larval spiny lobster rearing facility with continues seawater flow through tanks.

Spiny lobster (Panulirus argus ) - aquaculture candidate for the Caribbean?
Spiny lobster (Panulirus argus ) - aquaculture candidate for the Caribbean?
Dr. Alshuth analyzing larval spiny lobster stages and documenting larval growth.
Dr. Alshuth analyzing larval spiny lobster stages and documenting larval growth.
Phyllosoma larva of spiny lobster - the early larval stage with a long planktonic life before metamorphosing into the puerulus stage.
Phyllosoma larva of spiny lobster - the early larval stage with a long planktonic life before metamorphosing into the puerulus stage.
Detais about phyllosoma larval ecology incl. natural diets is still ambiguous - despite importance of larval survival to predict recruitment.
Detais about phyllosoma larval ecology incl. natural diets is still ambiguous - despite importance of larval survival to predict recruitment.
Spiny Lobster pigmented Puerulus stage - the transitional stage from planktonic to benthic life. Photo taken in southern Caribbean.
Spiny Lobster pigmented Puerulus stage - the transitional stage from planktonic to benthic life. Photo taken in southern Caribbean.
Dr. Alshuth growing larval food for spiny lobster larval rearing experiments.
Dr. Alshuth growing larval food for spiny lobster larval rearing experiments.
Rotifers - grown for spiny lobster larval food.
Rotifers - grown for spiny lobster larval food.
Spiny lobster broodstock facility at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution.
Spiny lobster broodstock facility at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution.
Spiny lobster brrodstock - kept in captivity.
Spiny lobster brrodstock - kept in captivity.
Dr. Alshuth monitoring spiny lobster populations on southern Caribbean reefs.
Dr. Alshuth monitoring spiny lobster populations on southern Caribbean reefs.

Development of culture techniques for Caribbean Spiny Lobster - valuable as marine resource management tool and useful for ocean conservation strategies in helping to replenish coral reef ecosystems in the future.

CONTRACT & POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH - Biophysical marine studies at Vero Beach Marine Laboratory in Vero Beach (Florida) - in collaboration with Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution. The oceanfront Vero Beach Marine Laboratory (VBML) was a field laboratory established in 1981 as a satellite campus for Florida Institute of Technology (Melbourne, FL) - offering an excellent setting for aquaculture research until its closing in 2017.

RESEARCH STUDIES:

• Ocean conservation and Caribbean Spiny Lobster stock enhancement research funded by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).

• Oceanographic parameters associated with early life history, survival and development of Caribbean Spiny Lobster Panulirus argus (Palinuridae) - knowledge essential to predict successful recruitment of wild spiny lobster populations.

• Larviculture experiments of Caribbean Spiny Lobster Panulirus argus. A collaborative project - FIT's Vero Beach Marine Laboratory and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute.


CONTRACT RESEARCH

• Brand specific sunscreen toxicity in six species of reef-building hard corals. Contract research at Biocepts International, Inc. in collaboration with Florida Institute of Technology's Vero Beach Marine Laboratory. Funding by Patrick’s Sunscreen, Inc.


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FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY  

VERO BEACH MARINE LABORATORY

FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY  

VERO BEACH MARINE LABORATORY

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