The Gulf School

04/28/2026

A dozen new residents at NOAA Galveston... the deepwater heterotrophic scleractinian Lophelia / Desmophyllum - life history and population dynamics, anatomy and physiology, ecology and feeding ecology, and conservation biology... cool stuff.

12/07/2025

MDBC Coral Propagation Team mesophotic stony coral work... digging the different morphology in polyp tentacles.

05/25/2024

Mitosis is the bomb…

08/06/2023

Eye to eye with relict fishes… alligator, longnose and spotted gars…

03/02/2023

How a nesting leatherback sea turtle hides her nest… keep walking mister. nothing to see here…

And nesting season begins 🐢

The Research Department at Loggerhead Marinelife Center has documented the first leatherback nest for the 2023 season on Juno Beach this morning!

The first leatherback nest of the season in the state of Florida was documented by EAI in Delray Beach on February 16th!

02/03/2023

Who snuck the loggerhead egg in the chicken coop…

01/21/2023

Cool stuff from loggerhead sea turtles…

12/17/2022

Happy heavenly birthday Margaret Mead - December 16, 1901

I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had…

11/29/2022

All creatures great and small… the Appalachian hellbenders

An intimate glimpse at North America's Eastern Hellbender, an ancient salamander that lives as much in myth as in reality.... and in many waters, myths are…

07/23/2022

An assortment of Atlantic ghost crab burrows… All found during 0700 sea turtle nesting patrol at Sea Isle, Galveston County, TX, on Saturday, July 9… fantastic biology and ecology of these decapods…

06/02/2022

Very cool stuff regarding the Gulf of Mexico…

An ancient bout of global warming 56 million years ago that acidified oceans and wiped-out marine life had a milder effect in the Gulf of Mexico, where life was sheltered by the basin's unique geology—according to research by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG).