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Florida Barrier Islands Resilience

Full Title: ISLAND: Integrating sediment, landscape, and environmental dynamics to manage natural resources on barrier islands of the Florida panhandle This project will evaluate how barrier islands along the Florida panhandle are changing and inform natural resource management that balances long-term island resilience, species conservation, and human use. Lead Investigator: Sara Zeigler, U.S. Geological Survey … Continue reading

FGBNMS Coral Resilience

Full Title: Long-Term Coral Reef Trends and Climate Resilience Strategies in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, Gulf of America This project will work to gain insights into the physiological, molecular, and reproductive responses of corals in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary and their tolerances to environmental stressors. Warhman 2025. Photo courtesy of … Continue reading

Rice’s Whale Monitoring

Full Title: Long-term Assessments of Rice’s Whales for Endangered Species Recovery Planning This project will use passive acoustic monitoring, physical oceanographic data, and acoustic tracking arrays to quantify relationships between trends in relative Rice’s whale density, oceanographic factors, and ambient noise to enhance understanding of the whale’s ecology and reduce uncertainty, improve management outcomes, and … Continue reading