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Gulf and Caribbean Research is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal published online by The University of Southern Mississippi and co-sponsored by the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. The journal was originally founded in 1961 by Gordon Gunter as a publication of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, and was titled Gulf Research Reports; that title persisted through 1999. Starting in 2000, the name was changed to Gulf and Caribbean Research to better reflect the scope of manuscripts, and the journal was published in traditional hard-copy format through 2013. After a brief hiatus involving a change to an electronic only format, the journal began accepting articles for publication in 2015. The journal considers manuscripts which deal mainly with research or research issues pertinent to the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.

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Our second 2025 Invited Ocean Reflection manuscript is entitled: “Mysteries of the Bryozoans: A Rocky Road to a Museum Career” developed by Dr. Judith E. Winston who studies bryozoan systematics and ecology, taxonomic procedure, and history of invertebrate zoology. Since retirement in 2014, Dr. Winston has continued her research at the Smithsonian Marine Station in Ft. Pierce, Florida as a Resident Research Associate. She is a former ICZN Commissioner (2010-2020) and has published a book on taxonomic procedure, Describing Species, as well as more than 100 scientific and popular articles and one Kindle mystery novel: Sea Weeds.

Open-access fees for the Ocean Reflection articles are supported by the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Corpus Christi, Texas.

See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.

Current Issue: Volume 36, Issue 1 (2025)

Ocean Reflections

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Rivers to the Deep Sea – Thoughts on my Career and Profession
Steve W. Ross

2025

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Articles

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A New Deep-Sea Species of Genus Bathybirubius Senna, 2010 (Crustacea, Peracarida, Amphipoda) Associated with Bathyal Sediments from The Bay of Campeche, SW Gulf of Mexico
Manuel Ortiz, Ignacio Winfield, and Sergio Cházaro Olvera

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The Effects of a River Closure on a Snook (Centropomus spp.) Nursery Community in the Rio Grande River, Texas
Ethan Getz, Perry Trial, Catherine Eckert, and Joel Anderson

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3D-Printed Polylactide Structures Do Not Affect the Demography of the Threatened Coral Acropora cervicornis
Gabriela Baerga-Jiménez and Alex E. Mercado-Molina

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The Macroalgal Composition Differs Among Depths and Zones in Cuban Mesophotic Coral Reef Eosystems
Beatriz Martínez-Daranas, Dennis Hanisak, Partricia M. González-Sánchez, Stephanie Farrington, and John K. Reed

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Early Season Tropical Cyclones Affect Birds Breeding on a Barrier Island
Theodore J. Zenzal Jr., Amanda N. Anderson, Brock Geary, Jessica Schulz, Robert C. Dobbs, Wylie C. Barrow Jr., and James H. Waddle

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Heterogeneity of Groundwater Level across a Karstic Landscape under Extreme Rainfall and Patterns of Nearshore Chlorophyll-
Israel Medina-Gómez

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Use of Light Traps to Assess the Taxonomy and Seasonality of Early Life stages of Fishes Recruiting to Upper Matagorda Bay in Texas
Polly Hajovsky, Joel Anderson, and Damon Williford

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