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2005 Missions Logs
This study is supported by NOAA Undersea Research Center in Wilmington.
Research Objectives
- Characterize the ecological role of lionfish
- What are they eating?
- How many are reproducing and where?
- Determine if temperature is a limiting factor in lionfish distribution.
This information will allow us to assess and possibly predict the risk these invaders pose to their new North Atlantic communities.
This
year we will be diving aboard the NOAA ship RV
Nancy Foster
and surveying for lionfish and native groupers at locations from 95 to 150
ft deep. Sampling sites are between Cape Fear and Cape Lookout, North
Carolina. We will be updating our web page of our daily events starting July
15.
The RV Nancy Foster Research Vessel: Thank you Nancy Foster Crew for a successful cruise!
Daily Log
Read about featured Teacher at Sea: Thomas
Nassif
The Research Divers (from left to right) Doug Kesling (NURC), Paula Whitfield (NOAA), Roldan Munoz (NOAA), Casey Coy (Florida Aquarium), Joe Hoyt (East Carolina University), Christine Addison (NOAA), Jay Styron (NURC) and Clem Shemanski (NURC)