POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH - Bio-physical oceanography studies at CMRC (Caribbean Marine Research Center) in Lee Stocking Island (Bahamas) - in collaboration with Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution and Florida Tech University.

RESEARCH STUDIES:

• Biodiversity, early life history and recruitment studies of tropical larval and juvenile fish in the Exuma Islands, Bahamas. Caribbean Marine Research Center in the Exumas at Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas.

• Evaluation of larval fish supply to essential nursery habitats (ENH) around Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas.

• Onshore transport of settlement-stage reef fishes in Exuma Sound, Bahamas.

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Approaching Lee Stocking Island in the Bahamas

CMRC - Caribbean Marine Research Center at Lee Stocking Island

CMRC Research Powerboat Fleet.

Channel Nets moored in
Lee Stocking Island Channel

Retrieval of channel nets - for collection of tropical juvenile fish

Channel Nets in Exuma Sound, Bahamas.

Retrieval of "cod end" - net end collection device for capture of settlement-stage reef fishes.

Channel nets moored in Lee Stocking Island Channel and Exuma Sound, Bahama.

Lee Stocking Island - South Shore Beach.

One last dive at South Beach reef - monitoring reef fish biodiversity.

Examining settlement-stage reef fish diversity
in laboratory.

Evaluating larval fish supply to essential nursery habits around Lee Stocking Island.

CARIBBEAN MARINE RESEARCH CENTER

Can larval behavior and the physical oceanographic environment that affect tropical reef fish settlement and recruitment - explain and predict population fluctuations and shifts in community structure - and be useful for resource management?