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Research interests include the ecology of marine ecosystems,
marine invertebrates, essential fish habitat, and marine turtles.
While at the Biology Department of the University of Puerto Rico
I investigated the relationship between hawksbill sea turtles and epibiota (organisms living on the surface of another).
I described the flora and fauna that overgrow the external surfaces of the hawksbill sea turtle in Mona and Monito Islands,
Puerto Rico.
The Sea Grant College Program has supported some of my work and I am indebited to all the staff
at the Mayaguez office. The Caribbean Coral Reef Institute supports my research project at Mona Island Natural Reserve.
Some of the Research Projects I have collaborated with include:
- Marine Managed Inventory, Puerto Rico (www.mpa.gov)
- Mona Island Hawksbill Sea Turtle Studies
- Culebra Island Green Sea Turtle Studies
- Desecheo Island Hawksbill Sea Turtle Studies
- Fishing Gear Effects on Coral Reef Habitats
- Marine Debris in the Mona Channel
- Spawning Aggregations of Nassau Grouper
- Coral Reef Anthropogenic Impacts
- Coral Reef Disease Monitoring in Mona Island
- Fortuna Reefer Grounding Restoration Monitoring, Mona Island
- National Geographic Crittercam, Mona Island
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