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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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In 2019 we will have two Ocean Reflection articles.

Dr. Brian E. LaPointe, from the Florida Atlantic University and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, is an expert in nutrients and harmful algal blooms. Dr. LaPointe’s article will be titled “Shifting Baselines: Nutrient Enrichment as a Driver in Gulf and Caribbean Marine Ecosystems.”

Dr. Kenneth L. Heck, Jr. from the Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory, is an expert in seagrass ecology and predator-prey interactions. Dr. Heck’s article will be entitled “Seagrasses Come of Age: 50 Years of Progress.”

Open-access fees for the Ocean Reflection articles above 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 29, Issue 1 (2018)

Editorial

Gulf of Mexico Science Back Issues Archived
Mark S. Peterson and Nancy J. Brown-Peterson

Available as Open Access

Ocean Reflections

Connectivity is Everything
Richard S. Appeldoorn

2018

Available as Open Access

Articles

Water Quality Trends Following Anomalous Phosphorus Inputs to Grand Bay, Mississippi, USA
Marcus W. Beck, Kimberly Cressman, Cher Griffin, and Jane Caffrey

Available as Open Access

Clarifying the Range of the Endangered Largetooth Sawfish in the United States
Jason C. Seitz and John D. Waters

Available as Open Access

Preliminary Multivariate Comparison of Coral Assemblages on Carbonate Banks in the Western Gulf of Mexico
Rebekah Rodriguez, Erin E. Easton, Thomas C. Shirley, John W. Tunnell, and David Hicks

Available as Open Access

Morphological Features of Taxonomical Value for the Identification of Three Western Atlantic Penaeid Shrimp Genera (Decopoda: Penaeidae)
Maria M. Criales and Carlos Varela

Short Communication

Preliminary Age Estimates for Female Southern Stingrays (Hypanus americanus) from Southwestern Florida, USA
Abigail H.P. Hayne, Gregg R. Poulakis, Jason C. Seitz, and James A. Sulikowski

Available as Open Access

Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Partnerships

The evolution of the Caribbean Marine Protected Area Management Network and Forum (CaMPAM): 20 years of the Regional Multidimensional Program for Strengthening MPA Practitioners
Georgina Bustamante, Alessandra Vanzella, Robert Glazer, and Ligia Collado-Vides

Available as Open Access

Reducing Elasmobranch Bycatch in the Atlantic Seabob (Xiphopenaeus kroyeri) Trawl Fishery of Guyana
Aaron Garstin and Hazel A. Oxenford

Available as Open Access

Description of a New Sound Produced by Nassau Grouper at Spawning Aggregation Sites
Timothy J. Rowell, Michelle T. Schärer, and Richard S. Appeldoorn

Available as Open Access

Diel Activity Patterns and Movement of Invasive Lionfish (Pterois volitans/P. miles) in the Florida Keys Identified Using Acoustic Telemetry
Michael McCallister, Jeffrey Renchen, Benjamin Binder, and Alejandro Acosta

Available as Open Access

Obituaries

Robert Charles Cashner 1942 - 2018
Martin T. O'Connell

Available as Open Access

John Wesley "Wes" Tunnell, Jr. 1945 - 2018
Larry D. McKinney

Available as Open Access

Harry J. Grier 1940 - 2018
Nancy J. Brown-Peterson and Susan K. Lowerre-Barbieri

Available as Open Access