Developing surface water GPS digital mapping technology to map the spatial distribution of size classes and disease prevalence of Elkhorn coral in the nearshore waters of St. Thomas and St. Croix
Much has been written about the species population status of the now ESA Listed Elkhorn (Acropora palmata) and Staghorn (Acropora cervicornis) corals throughout their range and the decline the two species have suffered over the past three decades from sto...
A pilot, cooperative fishery-independent trap survey of Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands
This report summarizes a cost-effective, fishery-independent survey program executed in 2010, which represents the first comprehensive spatial evaluation of relative fish abundance for any US Caribbean territory. This cooperative project employed the reso...
Lionfish response management plan, U.S. Virgin Islands : update February 2014
This updated territorial Lionfish Response Management Plan addresses the potential ecological and economic threat posed by invasive lionfish with specific strategies for education and outreach, removal, research and monitoring, marketing, and communicatio...
Discovery of new resources with pharmaceutical potential (pharmaceutical discovery)
The science party for this leg of the expedition consisted of two groups of scientists from the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution. The first group searched for previously undiscovered compounds in marine organisms that may be able to study, treat, o...