Videos

Three USGS Centers held this virtual event on February 23, 2023 to showcase various science career paths within USGS: the Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center, St.

Three USGS Centers held this virtual event on February 23, 2023 to showcase various science career paths within USGS: the Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center, St.

Three USGS Centers held this virtual event on February 23, 2023 to showcase various science career paths within USGS: the Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center, St.

Suspended sediment from Lake Okeechobee might be a source of nutrients that helps trigger the growth and development of harmful algal blooms in the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie Rivers.

Before a hurricane, USGS Scientists undertake a data collection effort of a grand scale. They install a temporary mobile network of sensors along the coasts to collect additional data on the intensity of storm surge, one of the most dangerous elements of a hurricane.

Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center, Davie Office, supported Broward County Watter Matters Day on March 11, 2017 as part of an outreach event to the public.
http://www.broward.org/WaterMatters/Pages/ProgramsWMD.aspx

This video podcast highlights 50 years of photographic documentation of coral reefs in the Florida Keys.  The photographs show 5 decades of changes that have taken place in both the size and the types of corals that were present at several coral reef sites from the early 1960s to today.  The images capture events such as the appearance of coral disease and

The Submersible Habitat for Analyzing Reef Quality (SHARQ) is a new tool scientists use to understand and map metabolic characteristics associated with marine communities living on the sea floor. This podcast gives a closer look at how scientists use SHARQ to analyze important habitats like coral reefs.

This documentary presents how recent changes in the composition and quantities of African dust transported to the Caribbean and the Americas might provide clues to why Caribbean coral reef ecosystems are deteriorating and human health may be impacted.

In this audio slideshow scientists cruise through tidal creeks, sample mangrove sites, pull sediment cores, and avoid swarms of mosquitoes while conducting studies and monitoring the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, the Everglades.

Inside the acrylic sphere of the JSL submersible, Professor Mike Risk of McMaster University observes the coral habitat of Viosca Knoll. Quantifying the fauna of a bamboo coral, black coral, and anemone forest on the continental slope along a video transect, the JSL submersible encounters a school of Barrelfish, a Red Dory, and a Slimehead.

Non-native or introduced populations of Asian Swamp Eels (family: Synbranchidae) exist in the wild in parts of Florida, Georgia, and Hawaii. This video shows predatory behavior of captive individuals.

Non-native or introduced populations of Asian Swamp Eels (family: Synbranchidae) exist in the wild in parts of Florida, Georgia, and Hawaii. This video shows predatory behavior of captive individuals.

Areas of active, if subdued, hydrocarbon seeps are notably devoid of large sessile invertebrates. A fluffy gray biofilm coats the underlying rock, dotted with small white patches of the chemo-seep-associated bacteria Beggatoia.

Viosca Knoll is an elevated salt dome with dormant and active chemo-seeps. Where hydrocarbons are actively escaping from the substrate, dense clusters of tightly entwined vestimentiferan tubeworms grow. As the submersible approaches, it disturbs a Blackbelly Rosefish (Helicolenus dactylopterus), and a Conger Eel (Conger oceanicus).

Making a burrow in the stony base of Lophelia bushes, a 1.5 m long Conger Eel (Conger oceanicus) emerges from its hiding place to patrol its territory. It preys upon smaller fishes.

Hovering at the base of the reef, the reddish Slimehead (Gephyroberyx darwini), is a stealthy ambush predator.

Reaching a length of 1.5 m, the grouper-like Wreckfish (Polyprion americanus) is an apex predator living on deep reefs worldwide, and probably spawning on western Atlantic Lophelia coral reefs.

An unidentified large white anemone densely populates thinly-sedimented goethite (iron oxide) slab rock, the fundamental Viosca Knoll substrate for attachment of sessile particulate-feeding invertebrates.

Tall bamboo coral trees (Keratoisis flexibilis) are surrounded by fields of unidentified large white anemones and orange-pink flytrap anemones (Actinoscyphia saginata). Small white 'gooseberry' anemones find a feeding perch right on the bamboo coral branches.

A dense cluster of unidentified dandelion-like anemones, intertwined with spiral vestimentiferan tubeworms waves back and forth in the current. The tight cluster of small anemones sits among a field of larger white anemones.