Highlights from the field
Rice undergraduate researcher Kristen Rabbitt taking notes on coral health
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Graduate researcher Emily Schmeltzer from Oregon State University collecting tissue samples from a colony of Porites lobata
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A blacktip reefshark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) on the Mo'orean fringing reef, August 2019.
A stingray in the backreef of Mo'orea, July 2019.
A sixbar wrasse (Thalassoma hardwicke) on the back reef of Mo'orea, July 2019.
Pocillopora colonies in the Red Sea
Some impressions of our fieldwork in the Gulf of Mexico in October 2018. We are investigating the effects of, and recovery after, extreme weather events such as hurricane Harvey on microbial community compositions.
A lemon shark on the fore reef in Moorea, August 2018.
Photo credit: Andrew Thurber from Oregon State University
It gets cold in Texas! Here are Dive Mutualists Lauren Howe-Kerr and I finishing up one of our dives as part of our American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) scientific dive training with Moody Gardens in Offats Bayou, Galveston in January 2018. Water temperatures were around 7 degrees Celsius, visbility was nearly nonextistent.
​Photo credit: Jake Emmert from Moody Gardens Aquarium
Large stands of branching Acropora muricata in Moorea, September 2017.
Crown of thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) in the lagoon of Mo'orea, September 2017
