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

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Current Issue: Volume 31, Issue 1 (2020)

Ocean Reflections

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Gulf Coast Marine Laboratories Past, Present and Future
Donald F. Boesch

2020

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Exploring Scale in Ocean and Coastal Governance in the Wider Caribbean
Robin C. Mahon

2020

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Articles

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Life History Metrics of Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Erik T. Lang, Chris A. Levron, CiJii D. Marshall, and Brett J. Falterman

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Spatio-Temporal Models of Juvenile and Adult Sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus) in Tampa Bay, Florida from 1996 to 2016
Bridgette F. Froeschke, Leslie B. Jones, and Brian Garman

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Abundance and Occurrence of Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Three Estuaries of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico
Errol Ronje, Heidi Whitehead, Kevin Barry, Sarah Piwetz, Juliane Struve, Vincent Lecours, Lance Garrison, Randall S. Wells, and Keith D. Mullin

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Short Communications

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Focus-Stacked Images of Fish Jawbones for Stomach Content Analyses: A Case Study with Select Taxa from Tampa Bay, Florida
Gabriel E. Ramos-Tafur, Kevin A. Thompson, Julianne Knight-Gray, Brittany J. Hall-Scharf, David D. Chagaris, Ted S. Switzer, Richard E. Matheson, and Robert H. McMichael Jr.

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Intraspecific Aggression Towards Common Bottlenose Dolphin Calves, Northern Gulf of Mexico
Errol Ronje, Sarah Piwetz, Heidi Whitehead, and Keith D. Mullin

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Habitat Characterization of Juvenile Atlantic Tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) in Isle of Youth, Cuba
Zenaida M. Navarro-Martínez, Jorge Angulo-Valdés, Lisandra García-Córdova, and Aaron Adams

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First Records for Spawning of Caribbean Acropora Species in Colombian MPAs
David M. Hudson, Barrett L. Christie, Luis A. Gómez-Lemos, Camilo Valcarcel, Diego Duque, Juan C. Zárate Arévalo, Jaime Rojas, Otto Reyes, Milena Marrugo, Maria Rosa, Israel A. Caicedo Torrado, Diana Tarazona, and Carlos Zuluaga

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Diet of the Blacktip Shark (Carcharhinus limbatus) in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico
Sarah R. Alewijnse and R. J. David Wells

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Leaf-Tip Morphology Does Not Support Species Status for the Seagrass Halodule beaudettei in Florida, USA
Michael E. Wheeler, Bradley T. Furman, and Margaret O. Hall

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Nursery Exposure of Oyster Spat to Different Predators Strengthens Oyster Shells
Melanie Ponce, Benjamin Belgrad, William Walton, and Lee Smee

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