Blue Holes – Page 2 – Abaco Scientist

Lionfish, Hurricanes, and Sleepers

We have featured these stories before, but a wave of popular press articles this week on the lionfish-hurricane hypothesis (one here) and the evolution of bigmouth sleepers in blue holes (one here).

By Craig Layman| 2017-12-01T14:02:16-05:00 March 7th, 2015|Categories: Blue Holes, Fish, Invasive Species, lionfish|0 Comments

Bigmouth Sleepers

Thanks to Brian Langerhans for the summary of this new paper. Paper is pretty technical, but cool stuff.

Here’s a newly published study out of the Langerhans Lab on fish evolution in the inland blue holes of Andros. In this study, they shifted their focus from the Bahamas mosquitofish (their usual focal organism) to the bigmouth sleeper […]

By Craig Layman| 2017-12-01T14:02:17-05:00 February 20th, 2015|Categories: Blue Holes, Fish|0 Comments

Climate Change and Biodiversity – What can we learn from birds on islands?

Thanks to Janet Franklin for this guest post on their recent paper! Really interesting to think back through these historical changes.

During the last Ice Age, the islands of the Bahamas were cooler, drier, and much larger than today because sea level was over 100 m lower. The Bahamas also were much closer to the Greater Antillean islands of Cuba […]

By Craig Layman| 2014-10-08T12:50:19-05:00 October 8th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Blue Holes, Caves, Fossils|1 Comment

The Bahamas an Ethical Travel Destination?

Ethical Traveler thinks so – it ranks The Bahamas as 1 of the top 10
“ethical” countries to visit in the developing world (read more here
and here – I found the first link especially interesting, and the second
a BBC summary). Their basic criteria…

“We then select the ten that are doing the most impressive job of promoting
human rights, preserving their environments, and […]

By Craig Layman| 2017-12-01T14:02:51-05:00 March 20th, 2014|Categories: Blue Holes, tourism|1 Comment

In the News

More on the smuggled iguanas and blue holes on the market.

By Craig Layman| 2017-12-01T14:02:52-05:00 March 6th, 2014|Categories: Blue Holes, Endangered species, herpetology, Lizards|0 Comments

Feature Paper: Extinct Rail Species Described

More cool stuff from Dave Steadman’s group (paper here). Summary after
the jump…

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By Craig Layman| 2017-12-01T14:02:56-05:00 February 11th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Blue Holes, Climate Change, Fossils|0 Comments

Featured ASAC Presenter: Dave Steadman

Would be remiss not to mention Dave Steadman and Nancy Albury,
having contributed so many fascinating findings over recent years
(some previous posts here and here). A general summary of this
research direction here.

By Craig Layman| 2017-12-01T14:03:12-05:00 January 16th, 2014|Categories: Archaeology, Blue Holes, Fossils, Geology|0 Comments

Macrobrachium Cave Shrimp

Tracked down photos of this strange Macrobrachium shrimp that is found
in some caves of Abaco. I still havent heard word if it has been identified.
Anyone have ideas which species this could be?

Cave shrimp 2

By Craig Layman| 2017-12-01T14:03:15-05:00 December 24th, 2013|Categories: Blue Holes, Caves, Invertebrates|1 Comment

Flesh Eating Terror

Well they really eat scales, and only harass their fish kin (much different from
the recent purported cases of flesh eating bacteria in the country). Two recent
papers describe this remarkable fish. This paper is an easy to read account of
the basic natural history of these two new […]

By Craig Layman| 2017-12-01T14:03:32-05:00 November 16th, 2013|Categories: Blue Holes, Fish, Mangroves and Creeks, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Long Term Perspective on Plant and Animal Life in The Bahamas, a Talk at Rand Nature Center

Bahamas caracara skull pictured in The National Geographic article from 2007

This Wednesday (10/3) at 7 PM Dr. David Steadman and Dr. Janet Franklin will be presenting their research on how fossils from Blue holes enrich our understanding of natural […]