Hanna Garland spent her summer on oyster reefs north of the Matanzas Inlet, looking for the cause to an extremely localized crown conch infestation that is decimating the oyster population. Now she’s back in Tallahassee, getting used to desk work and pouring over the data she collected.
Saint Augustine
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FSU Coastal & Marine Lab technician Tanya Rogers describes the building of what she calls “ecological art.” She is referring to the Kimbro lab’s summer experiment, for which several artificial oyster reefs with different combinations of animals was built near St. Augustine, FL.
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Oyster Reef Ecology | On the Reef
Growing Pains (bigger is definitely not always better)
by Davidby DavidImagine you have to set up an experiment from which you have to be able to obtain consistent results that form a definable pattern. Now imagine that you have to set this experiment up in the great muddy, salty outdoors. Dr. David Kimbro walks you through a large scale experiment that had him battling stone crabs and Mother Nature.
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David and his crew are putting together a big experiment as the In the Grass, On the Reef documentary comes together.
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Hanna Garland FSU Coastal & Marine Lab One of the most fascinating aspects of the…
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Dr. David Kimbro’s St. Augustine research site oyster reefs were once commercially viable but have been failing, and there is an overabundance of a particular oyster predator- the crown conch. David and his lab look into the causes for this sharp decline. Read more this week on In the Grass, On the Reef.
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Dr. David Kimbro FSU Coastal & Marine Lab Hey folks, Where did my winter of…
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Dr. David Kimbro FSU Coastal & Marine Lab The following is the first of three…
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Rob Diaz de Villegas WFSU-TV Wednesday, October 27- Finish tiles, go to Jacksonville Walking down…
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Rob Diaz de Villegas WFSU-TV Tuesday, October 26- Tile Team heads to Jacksonville The WFSU…