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LATEST IMPACT FACTOR 2022: 1.1
In Journal Citation Reports®, Thomson Reuters 2023

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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For 2023, we are excited to have an Ocean Reflection paper by Robert A. Glazer, titled “A Career Unplanned.” Bob recently retired from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) after 35 years, where his research focused on queen conch biology, ecology, aquaculture, and population restoration. While a Research Scientist at FWC, Bob has also been integral to south Florida’s climate change planning activities. Bob is currently Executive Director of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute and has provided his excellent management and leadership skills to that non-profit organization, expanding its scope and status throughout the Gulf and Caribbean arena. Bob’s biography can be seen here.

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 34, Issue 1 (2023)

Editorial

We have an Impact Factor!
Mark S. Peterson and Nancy J. Brown-Peterson

Available as Open Access

Articles

Permit (Trachinotus falcatus) Fishing Quality and Conservation Threats in the Florida Keys: A Recreational Angler and Fishing Guide Survey
Morgan Piczak, Steven Cooke, Aaron Adams, Lucas Griffin, Andy Danylchuk, and Jacob Brownscombe

First Record of the Genus Tiburnella Thomas & Barnard, 1983 (Amphipoda, Platyischnopidae) from the Deep-Sea Gulf of Mexico, with the Description of a New Species
Manuel Ortiz and Ignacio Winfield

Microdebris Abundance, Distribution, and Ingestion by Sargassum-Associated Juvenile Fishes in the Gulf of Mexico
Olivia L. Lestrade and Frank Hernandez

Available as Open Access

A Preliminary Assessment of the Spawning Potential Ratio of Five Target Species of the Coastal Gillnet Fishery in Guyana and Suriname
Tomas Willems, Elford Liverpool, and Michael Hiwat

Available as Open Access

Detecting Trends in Abundance and Distribution of Seagrasses in Lake Worth Lagoon, Palm Beach County, Florida
James R. Kerfoot Jr., Samantha N. Jones, Michael H. Schiebout, and Beth Orlando

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Multi-Year Environmental Trends of Shrimp Black Gill (Hyalophysa lynni) Prevalence in Texas Gulf Coast Shrimp Populations
Jillian L. Swinford and Joel Anderson

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Biomass and Productivity of Thalassia testudinum in Estuaries of the Florida Panhandle
Laura A. Yarbro, Paul R. Carlson, Ken L. Heck, Dorothy Byron, Sandra Brooke, Linda Fitzhugh, Sheila Scolaro, Barbara Albrecht, Rachel Presley, and Jane M. Caffrey

Available as Open Access

A Miocene Nannofossil Biostratigraphic Case Study: Alaminos Canyon Block 627 and Mississippi Canyon Block 555, and Sedimentation Rates in the Gulf of Mexico
Bethany L. Cobb Faulk and Murlene W. Clark

Available as Open Access

Using Drone Imagery to Map Intertidal Oyster Reefs along Florida’s Gulf of Mexico Coast
Michael Espriella and Vincent Lecours

A Histological Assessment of the Reproductive Cycle of the Sea Urchin, Lytechinus variegatus
Adele C. Cunningham, Victoria K. Gibbs, and Stephen A. Watts

Available as Open Access

Short Communications

Assessment of Living Shorelines for Restoring Fish Habitats: A Case Study from Coastal Alabama
Claire Legaspi, Matheus de Barros, Alexandra Rodriguez, and Ronald Baker

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Identifying Stable Isotope Patterns among Taxa, Sites, and Environmental Variables in the Eastern Mississippi Sound
Evan C. Marth, Carl S. Cloyed, and Ruth H. Carmichael

Available as Open Access

Obituaries

Richard W. Heard
Sara E. LeCroy, Joyce M. Shaw, and Chet F. Rakocinski

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Jonathan Franco López 1955 – 2023
Angel Moran-Silva, Rafael Chávez-López, and Sergio Cházaro-Olvera

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ISSN: 1528-0470 (PRINT)

ISSN: 2572-1410
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Articles from Gulf & Caribbean Research will be discoverable through EBSCOhost research databases.