The primary goal of the Coastal Ecology & Conservation Research Group is to qualitatively analyze community structure, biodiversity, habitat affinities, and trophic relationships of estuarine and marine fish communities throughout the Southeastern U.S. Fundamental scientific knowledge can be used to effectively advise resource agencies on how to best manage and conserve estuarine and marine resources. Presently, the program is involved with a diversity of fish studies ranging from habitat characterization and population census of threatened and endangered species to holistic ecosystem studies of saltmarsh and deep-reef fish communities.

Current Reports Available:

SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIVE REPORT - May, 2004 - Age & Reproduction in Three Reef Dwelling Serranid Fishes of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf: Pronotogrammus martinicensis, Hemanthias vivanus & Serranus phoebe (with Preliminary Observations on the Pomacentrid Fish, Chromis enchrysurus) (Adobe Acrobat PDF file - 3.6 mb)

CRUISE REPORT - August, 2004 - Deployment of Coral Settlement Tiles on the Outer Continental Shelf of the Northeast Gulf of Mexico, as part of the Slope To Shelf Energetics And Exchange Dynamics project of the Naval Research Laboratory (Adobe Acrobat PDF file - 4.8 mb)

SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIVE REPORT - April, 2004 - Characterization of Ichthyoplankton within the U.S. Geological Survey's Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Study Area

FINAL REPORT - February, 2004 - Quantitative assessment of benthic food resources for juvenile Gulf sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi in the Suwannee River estuary, Florida, USA.

CRUISE REPORT - March, 2004 - Structure, Function, and Biological/Physical Coupling of Deep Reef Communites in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico.

CRUISE REPORT - February, 2004 - Assessment of Fish Communities Associated with Offshore Sand Banks and Shoals in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico.

TECHNICAL REPORT - June, 2002 - Community Structure and Trophic Ecology of Fishes on the Pinnacles Reef Tract.

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