Estimating shark populations on degraded Caribbean reefs is complicated, especially when there few around. A pioneering member of the O’Dea lab has developed a technique to estimate shark populations — both past and present — using their microscopic skin scales
From deep time to real time
in western Caribbean ecosystems
In the Collin Lab we work to understand how environmental conditions, their natural variation and environmental change from the climate emergency shape marine ecosystems and biodiversity. Our current work focuses on three areas (1) Documenting the biodiversity of tropical marine invertebrates, (...
My research interests span a broad range of subjects from conservation biology and restoration ecology to collaborations with social scientist and economists on subjects related to human behavior and land management. The common theme is the applied nature of my work and the effort to provide...
My primary research focus is on Panamanian frogs that are likely extinct in the wild due to a fungal infection but are kept alive in captive breeding programs in Panama and the United States. Our lab has collected founding individuals for these amphibian colonies, devised methods to sustainably...
Since I joined STRI’s scientific staff in 1975, I have conducted field research on a broad range of topics relating to the reproductive biology, demography, population biology, behavior, community ecology, evolution and biogeography of tropical reef fishes, with an emphasis on those species that...
As bacterial infections become more resistant to antibiotics, the toxins on the skin of frogs presents huge opportunity for new drug discovery.
A coral die-off in Panama was likely due to oxygen depletion instead of the usual culprits of warming, pollution, overfishing and acidification.
Satellite tracking technology reveals the massive ranges of breeding areas of humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean.
A new study points directly links healthy coral reefs to healthy populations of these brightly colored fishes.
