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Welcome to my photo gallery. Hover over the image with your mouse to view the caption, and click on the image to see a larger version of it. The images are in chronological order, starting with my 2nd relative abundance trip during  week 2, and ending with my last field outing to Charlotte Harbor, cownose  ray fishing, during week 10.

The aquarium entrance at Mote Marine Laboratory

Beau, John, Megan and Claudia set the gill net

The gill net flag and first buoy

Insley draws blood from and Atlantic sharpnose Claudia is holding

Untangling a baby blacktip from the net

A baby blacktip shark gets tagged

This is me holding a tagged blacktip shark

An Atlantic sharpnose shark

A bonnethead shark being weighed

A bonnethead shark

A bonnethead shark being measured

A bonnethead shark being weighed

A bonnethead shark being weighed

This pregnant femal bonnethead died in the net, so we dissected her to see how far along her embryos were

A bonnethead embryo

Claudia, Insley, Megan and Beau take a break for a dip.

This is me holding up one of 3 longnose gars that we caught

Beau with the longnose gar

John tries to revive the great hammerhead

The great hammerhead

The great hammerhead

Great hammerhead

Great hammerhead

Great hammerhead

Great hammerhead

Me with the great hammerhead

The Parker, aka the Queequeg

The Jessabelle

A drumline buoy and the Sarasota skyline

A view of Longboat Key from the boat

A blacknose shark

Ryan pins a blacknose shark

Ryan pins a blacknose shark

A nurse shark

A nurse shark

A nurse shark

A nurse shark

A nurse shark

A nurse shark

A blacktip shark

A loggerhead sea turtle stuck on our drumline

Great hammerhead!

Great hammerhead!

The Jessabelle lands the 9 ft hammerhead

The Jessabelle lands the 9 ft hammerhead

The Jessabelle lands the 9 ft hammerhead

The 9 ft hammerhead in our tank

The 9 ft hammerhead in our tank

The 6ft great hammerhead

The 6ft great hammerhead

The 6ft great hammerhead

The 6ft great hammerhead

The Jessabelle crew lands the 6ft hammerhead

The Jessabelle crew lands the 6ft hammerhead

Dehooking a blacktip shark on the Clark trip

Removing a bull shark from the dip net on the Clark trip

Removing a bull shark from the dip net on the Clark trip

Dehooking a bull shark on the Clark trip

A recaptured lemon shark on the Clark trip - note the tags on the dorsal fin

Measuring the lemon shark

Dehooking the lemon shark

A storm on the Clark trip

The skyway bridge in St. Petersburg

Kemp's Ridley sea turtle

Me, with the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle

A cownose ray in the Tiburon II live well

A storm brews over the anchored Tiburon II in Tampa Bay

The CSR garage

The net being hung up for repair

The hole in the gill net I was working on

John weighs a blacktip shark

A blacktip shark

A blacktip shark

A bonnethead about to be weighed

A tagged bonnethead swims around in the Tiburon II livewell

The gill net from the boat, the background is a mangrove forest

Tools of the trade, a data box, weighing mesh, scale, net hook, scissors and tagging tool

Tools of the trade II: a measuring board

The back porch of the Pine Island Field House

The bunk room at the field house

A screen shot of the data in Paradox

A cownose ray

The nuclear powerplant at Yankeetown

The CSR interns at the BBQ - we're not ready yet - Back, L-R: Liam, Caitlin, Lauren, Sarah - Front, L-R: Megan, Claudia, Candace

The CSR interns at the BBQ - we're ready now - Back, L-R: Liam, Caitlin, Lauren, Sarah - Front, L-R: Megan, Claudia, Candace

A copy of a drumline data sheet from the Clark trip

A copy of the shark data sheet from the Clark trip

A copy of the longline data sheet from the Clark trip

Me, holding the net as the rest of the crew works on a bull shark

A bull shark

A bull shark

Claudia tags the bull shark while Angela holds it steady

Claudia tags the bull shark while Angela holds it steady

Claudia (back) and I (front) hold the bull shark before release - note acoustic tag

Claudia (back) , I (front), and Beau (very front) hold the bull shark before release - note acoustic tag

The bull shark with an acoustic tag

Same picture, flipped, The bull shark with an acoustic tag

Angela releases a cownose ray with an acoustic tag

The head of a bull shark caught in the net

A bull shark

Angela untangles the bull shark

Rainbow of I-75

 

 

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