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Backyard Ecology (Plus new video on Bay Mouth Bar)

Bay Mouth Bar is one of the most ecologically diverse places in the world. Dr. David KImbro guides us through a menagerie of strange looking marine invertebrates, and describes the place’s importance to the field of ecology. Continue reading

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Coastal Roundup July 13th – July 20th, 2012

Fishing the Forgotten Coast, volunteer opportunities, and robotic trash collectors of the ocean and more on this week’s Coastal Roundup. Continue reading

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Coastal Roundup July 6th – July 13th, 2012

Scallop Season, Tropical Storm Debby, and more on North Florida’s Gulf coast. Continue reading

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Photo Feature: Bedazzled Predator

Rob Diaz de Villegas WFSU-TV It kind of looks like one of those vintage ’80′s jackets adorned with mirrors and sequins- mollusk style.  This horse conch’s got a little bit of everything on it, the result of an interesting reversal … Continue reading

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Welcome to Bay Mouth Bar!

Cristina Lima Martinez FSU Coastal & Marine Lab First Impressions As soon as you arrive to BMB, it is easy to imagine and feel the same curiosity and fascination that Robert Paine brimmed with when he first immersed himself in … Continue reading

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Revisiting the Ecology of Fear

Dr. David Kimbro FSU Coastal & Marine Lab Since I started working at FSU’s marine lab, I have frequently cast longing looks at a local study system that hasn’t been examined in over 50 years. Back in the 1960s, the … Continue reading

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Searching for alternative explanations

Dr. David Kimbro FSU Coastal & Marine Lab In many of our previous posts, we focused on how predator patterns may dictate why oyster reefs look different from NC to Florida. While a cursory look at results thus far supports … Continue reading

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This is what an oyster reef looks like…

Rob Diaz de Villegas WFSU-TV The photo above is my work computer’s desktop picture. Most of the time, when people see it, I find that they had no idea what an oyster reef looked like.  One coworker thought it was … Continue reading

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A closer look into the reefs

The following photos are of samples taken at each of Dr. Kimbro’s sites, as mentioned in his previous post.  After surveying the reefs to see what large fish and crabs were living in the reefs, he and his team turned … Continue reading

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Rehearsal is Over

Dr. David Kimbro FSU Coastal & Marine Lab Although we’ve busied ourselves this summer by selecting research sites and practicing various aspects of our sampling program, we have still not collected any ‘real’ data concerning the objectives of our biogeographic … Continue reading

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