Our broad goals are to facilitate the conservation, recovery and management of at-risk, threatened, and endangered benthic (predominantly coral) species and ecosystems by conducting research and providing scientific and technical advice to local, state and federal management organizations. Specific research interests include: a) assessing and mapping existing Acropora spp. populations in the Key Largo, Navassa, and the Eastern Caribbean, b) restoring storm/hurricane-generated Acropora spp. fragments in Biscayne National Park by employing a variety of substrate reattachment methods, c) Acropora spp. genetics, d) describing the ecology and population genetics of the coralivorous gastropod (Coralliophila abbreviata), e) describing the early life histories of Caribbean corals (photoreception, substrate selection, and the affects of UV and elevated temperatures), f) restoring Key Largo coral populations (Acropora spp., Montastrea spp. and Diploria spp.) through larvae seeding techniques and juvenile transplantation, and g) assessing of reef resources and fisheries of Navassa Island, a small uninhabited island off the coast of Haiti (US National Wildlife Refuge).