The Marine Education and Research Center (MERC), which was also previously named MERI, is now the Center for Coastal Oceans Research. The FIU Center for Coastal Oceans Research (CCOR) exists to foster cooperation among FIU scientists in estuarine and marine research. The “Coastal Oceans” part of the name is designed to give a unique identity to the center compared to other oceanographic institutions. While we as a group have concentrated our work from the high-tide line to the shelf break (including estuaries), there is nothing in the name of the center to preclude any of us from working in the open ocean or tidal freshwater creeks! The Center sits within the Institute of Water and Environment, which also houses SERC and the Sea level Solutions Center.

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Submissions from 2024

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Caricas Partner's Practical Field and Laboratory Guide, James W. Fourqurean, Johannes R. Krause, Juan González-Corredor, Tom A. Frankovich, and Justin E. Campbell

Submissions from 2018

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Optimal swimming strategies and behavioral plasticity of oceanic whitetip sharks, Yannis Papastamatiou, Gil Iosilevskii, Vianey Leos-Barajas, Edd. J. Brooks, Lucy A. Howey, Demian D. Chapman, and Yuuki Y. Watanabe

Submissions from 2017

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Resetting predator baselines in coral reef ecosystems, Darcy Bradley, Eric Conklin, Yannis Papastamatiou, Douglas J. McCauley, Kydd Pollock, Amanda Pollock, Bruce E. Kendell, Steven D. Gaines, and Jennifer E. Caselle

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Growth and life history variability of the grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) across its range, Darcy Bradley, Eric Conklin, Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Douglas J. McCauley, Kydd Pollock, Bruce E. Kendell, Steven D. Gaines, and Jennifer E. Caselle

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No persistent behavioural effects of SCUBA diving on reef sharks, Darcy Bradley, Yannis Papastamatiou, and Jennifer Caselle

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Seasonal Recruitment and Survival Strategies of Palisada Cervicornis Comb. Nov. (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) in Coral Reefs, Ligia Collado-Vides, Alain Duran, Elizabeth Armenis, Valéria Cassano, Deron Burkepile, Andrew A. Shantz, Laura Palma, Jhoana Díaz-Larrea, and Abel Sentíes

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Fishing, pollution, climate change, and the long-term decline of coral reefs off Havana, Cuba, Alain Duran, A. A. Shantz, D. E. Burkepile, Ligia Collado-Vides, W. M. Ferrer, Laura Palma, A. Ramos, and S. P. Gozalez-Diaz

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Light Attenuation in Estuarine Mangrove Lakes, Thomas A. Frankovich, David T. Rudnick, and James W. Fourqurean

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Linking fishes to multiple metrics of coral reef structural complexity using three-dimensional technology, M. González-Rivero, Alastair R. Harborne, A. Herrera-Reveles, Y. M. Bozec, A. Rogers, A. Friedman, A. Ganase, and O. Hoegh-Guldberg

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Basic surface features of nuclear FKBPs facilitate chromatin binding, Andrew Leung, Francy-Pesek Jardim, Neda Savic, Yoan R. Monneau, Rodrigo Gonzalez-Romero, Geoff Gudavicius, Jose M. Eirin-Lopez, Till Bartke, Cameron D. Mackereth, Juan Ausio, and Christopher J. Nelson

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Modeled CO2 Emissions from Coastal Wetland Transitions to Other Land Uses: Tidal Marshes, Mangrove Forests, and Seagrass Beds, Catherine E. Lovelock, James W. Fourqurean, and James T. Morris

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Unexpected patterns of global population structure in melon-headed whales Peponocephala electra, Karen K. Martien, Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Robin W. Baird, Jeremy J. Kiszka, Jessica M. Aschettino, Marc Oremus, and Marie C. Hill

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The role of isolation on contrasting phylogeographic patterns in two cave crustaceans, Jorge L. Pérez-Moreno, Gergely Balázs, Blake Wilkins, Gábor Herczeg, and Heather D. Bracken-Grissom

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Molecular and Biochemical Methods Useful for the Epigenetic Characterization of Chromatin-Associated Proteins in Bivalve Molluscs, Ciro Rivera-Casas, Rodrigo Gonzalez-Romero, Rafael A. Garduño, Manjinder S. Cheema, Juan Ausio, and Jose M. Eirin-Lopez

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Phase heterogeneity in carbonate production by marine fish influences their roles in sediment generation and the inorganic carbon cycle, Michael A. Salter, Alastair R. Harbonne, Chris T. Perry, and Rod W. Wilson

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Limits on carbon sequestration in arid blue carbon ecosystems, Lisa M. Schile, Boone Kauffman, Stephen Crooks, James W. Fourqurean, Jane Glavan, and Patrick Megonigal

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Phylogenetic evidence from freshwater crayfishes that cave adaptation is not an evolutionary dead-end, David B. Stern, Jesse Breinholt, Carlos Pedrazaz-Lara, Marilu Lopez-Mejia, Christopher L. Owen, Heather D. Bracken-Grissom, James W. Fetzner Jr., and Keith A. Crandall

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Marine megafauna interactions with small-scale fisheries in the southwestern Indian Ocean: a review of status and challenges for research and management, Andrew J. Temple, Jeremy J. Kiszka, Selina M. Stead, Nina Wambiji, Atanásio Brito, Christopher N.S. Poonian, Omar A. Amir, Narriman Jiddawi, Sean T. Fennessy, Sergi Pérez-Jorge, and Per Berggren

Submissions from 2016

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Trace element and isotope deposition across the air–sea interface: progress and research needs, A. R. Baker, W. M. Landing, E. Bucciarelli, S. Fietz, C. T. Hayes, David C. Kadko, P. L. Morton, N. Rogan, G. Sarthou, R. U. Shelley, Z. Shi, A. Shiller, and M.M. P. van Hulten

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Uniting paradigms of connectivity in marine ecology, Christopher J. Brown, Alastair R. Harborne, Claire B. Paris, and Peter J. Mumby

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Phylogeny of Stenopodidea (Crustacea: Decapoda) shrimps inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes reveals non-monophyly of the families Spongicolidae and Stenopididae, and most of their composite genera, Chien-Lin Chen, Joseph W. Goy, Heather D. Bracken-Grissom, Darryl L. Felder, Ling Ming Tsang, and Tin-Yam Chan

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Medlinella amphoroidea gen. et sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from the neck skin of Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), Thomas A. Frankovich, Matt P. Ashworth, Michael J. Sullivan, Jana Vesela, and Nicole I. Stacy

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Environmental drivers of diurnal visits by transient predatory fishes to Caribbean patch reefs, Alastair R. Harbonne, J. D. Selwyn, J. M. Lawson, and M. Galo

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Marine mammals and sonar: Dose-response studies, the risk-disturbance hypothesis and the role of exposure context, Catriona M. Harris, Len Thomas, Erin A. Falcone, John Hildebrand, Dorian Houser, Petter H. Kvadsheim, Frans-Peter A. Lam, Patrick J.O. Miller, David J. Moretti, Andrew J. Read, Hans Slabbekoorn, Brandon L. Southall, Peter L. Tyack, Douglas Wartzok, and Vincent M. Janick

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Relations between morphology, buoyancy and energetics of requiem sharks, Gil Iosilevskii and Yannis Papastamatiou

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Inferring animal social networks and leadership: applications for passive monitoring arrays, David M.P. Jacoby, Yannis Papastamatiou, and Robin Freeman

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Analysis of animal accelerometer data using hidden Markov models, Vianey Leos-Barajas, Theoni Photopoulou, Roland Langrock, Toby A. Patterson, Yuuki Watanabe, Megan Murgatroyd, and Yannis Papastamatiou

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Life in the Underworld: Anchialine cave biology in the era of speleogenomics, Jorge L. Perez-Moreno, Thomas M. Iliffe, and Heather D. Bracken-Grissom

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Early Genotoxic and Cytotoxic Effects of the Toxic Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum lima in the Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis, María Verónica Prego-Faraldo, Vanessa Valdiglesias, Blanca Laffon, Josefina Mendez, and Jose M. Eirin-Lopez

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The characterization of macroH2A beyond vertebrates supports an ancestral origin and conserved role for histone variants in chromatin, Ciro Rivera-Casas, Rodrigo Gonzalez-Romero, Manjinder S. Cheema, Juan Ausio, and Jose M. Eirin-Lopez

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Characterization of mussel H2A.Z.2: a new H2A.Z variant preferentially expressed in germinal tissues from Mytilus, Ciro Rivera-Casas, Rodrigo Gonzalez-Romero, Ángel Vizoso-Vazquez, Manjinder S. Cheema, M. Esperenza Cerdán, Josefina Méndez, Juan Ausió, and Jose M. Eirin-Lopez

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The Origin of Large-Bodied Shrimp that Dominate Modern Global Aquaculture, Javier Robalino, Blake Wilkins, Heather D. Bracken-Grissom, Tin-Yam Chan, and Maureen A. O'Leary

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Resilience of a tropical sport fish population to a severe cold event varies across five estuaries in southern Florida, P. W. Stevens, D. A. Blewett, Ross E. Boucek, Jennifer S. Rehage, B. L. Winner, J. M. Young, J. A. Whittington, and R. Paperno

Submissions from 2015

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Three New Species of Tursiocola (Bacillariophyta) from the Skin of the West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus), Thomas A. Frankovich, Michael J. Sullivan, and Nicole I. Stacy

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Tursiocola denysii sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from the neck skin of Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), Thomas A. Frankovich, Michael J. Sullivan, and Nicole I. Stacy