The queen conch is an important cultural component and an extremely valuable coral reef fishery resource throughout the Caribbean, historically second only to the spiny lobster. Comparisons of past studies with current densities from these areas continue...

"Throughout the Caribbean, queen conch (Strombus gigas) are considered a species of concern under the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) due to basin-wide stock depletions. Research suggests that a variety of factors may be re...

This project addresses concerns over levels of contaminants in water, sediments, and marine organisms in the coral reef ecosystem of Salt River Bay. Degraded habitats and chemical contaminants can contribute both to human health risks from consumption of ...

The queen conch, Strombus gigas, is a highly valued marine resource throughout the Caribbean, but habitat degradation and overfishing have caused steep reductions in population numbers. Wild populations of conch have been slow to recover in spite of drast...

Acropora cervicornis and A. palmata have experienced substantial losses in coral cover throughout the Caribbean, but their hybrid (A. prolifera) appears to be increasing at some sites. The shifts in relative abundance could result from hybridization with ...

Presentation on Determining habitat use, movement, and migration patterns of queen conch, Strombus gigas, in St. John, USVI, using acoustic tagging techniques given at the 60th International Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Meeting in Punta Cana, Do...

This dataset contains shell lengths and lip thicknesses of queen conch individuals located and measured while conducting radial surveys of the conch populations on the northern shelf of St. Croix. The date, location, water depth, and general benthic habi...

This is the status review report for queen conch (Aliger gigas) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Information and data were reviewed for approximately 40 jurisdictions through July 1, 2021. This report summarizes the best available scientific and co...

"The distribution of Acropora spp. at three sites in the U.S. Virgin Islands (Thatch Cay, Lovango Cay, No Name Bay) are well documented based on previous tissue collection and long-term transect analysis. Rather than mapping by species alone, here we have...

"In September 2019, we collected 63 colonies from reefs surrounding St. Thomas and St. John as a continuation of a multifaceted approach to understand the ecology and population dynamics of the threatened Acropora taxa. Starting in 2009, three long-term t...