2020 Alf Thompson Memorial Scholarship Interns Announced, March 2020
Bahamas Marine EcoCentre will sponsor three summer interns at Bimini Biological Field Station (BBFS) in 2020: Evette Roach, Morgan Bower and Frankiesha Wright, all from New Providence. The interns will spend four weeks at ‘Shark Lab’, working and living with other interns, graduate students and research scientists from around the
New Swim Ladder, Darby Island Research Station, January 2020
January 2020 saw the return of Dr. Erich Mueller to Little Darby Island. Erich and his wife Marta are spending the winter months in the Exuma Cays, aboard their sailing vessel Deja Vu, helping out on a variety of projects. One of their first contributions was to re-build the deteriorating
Mangrove Assessment, Little Farmers Cay January 2020
At the invitation of local resident Aiden Burrows, habitat restoration specialist Gary Milano and a group from Darby Island Research Station visited Little Farmers Cay in January 2020 to assess mangrove wetlands. Historically mangroves located on the northern side of Little Farmer’s Cay were connected to the coastal waters through
Nanopore Sequencing of Microbial Mats in Salt Ponds, July 2019
In July 2019, Jamie Foster, University of Florida, and Pamela Reid (University of Miami) used a new DNA sequencing technique called Nanopore MinION sequencing to examine microbial mats in salt ponds on Little Darby Island. This innovative technology enables researchers to rapidly access microbial communities over time and space to create biological snapshots of the genomes of
2019 Alf Thompson Memorial Scholarship Interns June 2019
Daniela Brown (left) and Paloma Cartwright (right) have been selected to receive the 2019 Alf Thompson Memorial Scholarship, sponsored by Bahamas Marine EcoCentre. Daniela, from Nassau, and Paloma, from Long Island, will spend four weeks this summer at the Bimini Biological Field Station, better known as ‘the Shark Lab’, studying,
Fluorescent particles used to track Bioturbation, May 2019
In May 2019, Lidya Tarhan and Noah Planavsky from Yale University continued their bioturbation experiments at Darby Island Research Station. Bioturbation studies investigate how animals burrow in seafloor sediments and the manner in which they impact the physical properties and ecological structure of the seafloor, as well as how particular