A guest post from Ali Ball. What a cool find! Thanks Ali.
LOST AND FOUND: ISRAEL POINT CAVE
In July of 1904, American zoologist Glover M. Allen visited various caves in Abaco to collect bat specimens.
A hundred and ten years later Kelly Speer, a grad student at AMNH, generated a spreadsheet documenting bats that had been collected throughout the Bahamas, including those […]
In one of the top ecology journals. See page 2.
I am pretty sure this is the first paper I have seen that is simply the definition of a word – here they redefine the term “anchialine”. A very short, easy to follow, paper with some general facts about these systems.
Looks like this group from Missouri S&T is maintaining a blog, Miners Abroad, about their geological research on San Salvador. Interesting to see how that progresses.
New research shows that parrotfish excrement can build entire islands. The study was done in the Maldives and compared various sources of biogenic sand including boring sponges, sea urchins, calcifying algae (Halimeda), and parrotfish. They find that parrotfish contribute around 85% of the sand on their study island! That’s a lot of sand! It’s a good illustration of the diverse […]
This year at ASAC, Dr. David Steadman gave a presentation on the latest research at Gilpin Point, Abaco. As luck would have it, our paper on the Gilpin Point study was published today in THE HOLOCENE. Details after the jump…
Building up the paper archive, we are coming across lots of cool stuff-
amazing the research that has gone on in the country. We found this
paper on black holes – a subset of the well-studied blue holes that just
happen to be black. The paper is pretty easy to follow […]
