Studying the knowledge and consumption of lionfish on Eleuthera
Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans) is a venomous species that has been invasive to The Bahamas for over a decade (since 2004). It was first observed around Eleuthera in 2005 and…
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Patch reef survey time!
Last week the Reef Ecology and Restoration team completed the March monitoring surveys of the 5 year reef study around the patches of Eleuthera. The March surveys usually call for thick…
Lionfish: Island School’s favorite dish!
The invasion of lionfish on reefs of the West Atlantic has become an issue of critical concern. With eradication not possible, the silver lining is that lionfish are delicious. The…
Lionfish, and conch, and sea turtles, and aquaponics, oh my!
Last weekend, programs from the Cape Eleuthera Institute, including the Reef Ecology and Restoration Team, Sustainable Fisheries Team, Sea Turtle Team, and Aquaponics Program travelled to Governor’s Harbour Homecoming to spread…
Halloween Spooktacular- Lionfish Treats
On the night of Halloween, the CEI team put on their lionfish costumes and travelled to the Spooktacular event at the Leon Levy Native Plant Reserve in Governor’s Harbour. The…
Lionfish outreach at Wemyss Bight Homecoming
On October 10, the CEI team headed to Wemyss Bight Homecoming to spread the word about the lionfish invasion. The team was armed with a large batch of lionfish fritters…
Oregon State University’s final field season at CEI
Dr. Mark Hixon’s PhD students from Oregon State University returned to CEI for a fourth summer of invasive lionfish research. As part of a long-term project, PhD student Alex…
Students from Simon Fraser University continue their research on the invasive lionfish in Eleuthera
Three months ago, the Cape Eleuthera Institute (CEI) welcomed back Simon Fraser University (SFU), and their 2015 field team of seven researchers. Based in British Columbia on the west coast…
Record sized lionfish captured in Eleuthera
The Slayer Campaign has been a huge success at the Cape Eleuthera Institute this year, and we’re well on our way to setting a new record for the total catch…
Educational Programs Team hosts Akhepran International Academy
While all visiting groups are special to us here at CEI, certain ones touch our hearts in unique and unexpected ways. Akhepran International Academy, visiting us for the first time…
Lionfish June Patch Reef Surveys
The lionfish team recently completed their quarterly surveys of lionfish and other reef fish in the patch reef system of South Eleuthera, part of a longterm study. This time around…
Sustainable Fisheries team represents at 2015 Conch Fest!
Last weekend, Deep Creek hosted its annual Conch Fest. Unlike past years, Conch Fest was new and improved, focused on keeping Deep Creek green, clean, and pristine. Instead of using plastic…
Tandem Friends School visits CEI
Earlier this May, we welcomed the very FIRST group of female students to ever visit CEI from Tandem Friends School in Charlottesville, Virginia. This trip was planned as part of…
Sustainable Fisheries team represents at Rock Sound Homecoming
This past Saturday, the Sustainable Fisheries team travelled to Rock Sound for the annual Homecoming to represent The Cape Eleuthera Institute. The booth, decorated with educational materials pertaining to invasive…
The Lillian and Betty Ratner School Learns All About Lionfish
This past week, visiting students from Ohio’s Lillian and Betty Ratner School spent a week at The Island School stretching their comfort zones and exploring what it means to live…
The lionfish team completes year 5 of reef surveys
The lionfish team zipped up their 5mm wetsuits, donned their hoods, and braved the dropping water temperatures to conduct the 5th year of reef monitoring. It is well known that…
Successful lionfish jewelry workshop in Deep Creek
As invasive lionfish decimate Caribbean coral reef systems, consumptive fishery demand is promoted as one of the best ways to control their populations. Recently, though, there is a new reason…
Slayer Campaign Launches Year-Round
After its initial trial launch in April of this year and a successful 4-month run, the CEI Lionfish Research and Education Program’s “You Slay, We Pay” campaign has now been…
First-Ever Bahamian Lionfish Jewelry Making and Awareness Workshop a Huge Success
The lionfish, an invasive predator from the Indo Pacific currently wreaking havoc on Caribbean and South American coral reef fish populations, was first introduced to the region through the exotic…
First-Ever Bahamian Lionfish Jewelry Making and Awareness Workshop a Huge Success
The lionfish, an invasive predator from the Indo Pacific currently wreaking havoc on Caribbean and South American coral reef fish populations, was first introduced to the region through the exotic…
The Lionfish Team Breaks from Lab Work to Conduct Patch Reef Surveys
For the past three seasons the Lionfish Research and Education Program, managed by Dr. Jocelyn Curtis-Quick, has been conducting an array of lab-based behavioral studies. Projects have assessed everything…
Simon Fraser University’s Gotta Catch ‘Em All
Summer 2014 was a fun but busy field season for the research team from Simon Fraser University. This was the first field season at Cape Eleuthera Institute for Fiona Francis,…
Summer Research at CEI and Abroad – Check out our eNews!
The summer season at Cape Eleuthera Institute always sees a tremendous amount of activity. Visiting scientists fly in, new interns and undergraduates arrive, and every now and then our own…
Gap Year Students in the Field with the Lionfish and Sustainable Fisheries Teams
Gap Year students spent an afternoon with the sustainable fisheries program, dissecting lionfish and engaging in discussion about the invasive species. During the dissection students poked at lionfish visceral fat…
Brookwood School Visits CEI
Brookwood School students and teachers recently headed back to Massachusetts after their school’s first visit to Cape Eleuthera Institute. During their 6-day adventure the group was able to learn more about…
Local High School Teachers Consider Sustainability as a Part of Curriculum
Teachers and Vice Principal, Ms. Knowles, from Preston H. Albury High School came to visit during teacher’s planning week in late August. This visit served as the start to a…
Island School Students Invade CEI
For the Island School summer term, six students had the opportunity to work with Dr. Jocelyn Curtis-Quick researching invasive lionfish. In one day, the students became professionals at cast netting,…
CEI hands out free lionfish at Deep Creek’s Conch Fest
This year, CEI had a booth at Deep Creek’s Homecoming, called Conch Fest, that was geared towards promoting sustainable fisheries. The team was frying up lionfish samples, so local community…
CEI and Island School Research Symposium a big success
Congratulations to all of the Spring 2014 Island School students who gave oral and poster presentations at the Research Symposium. This event is a culmination a semester-long research class, where…
Island School students present their research at Parent’s Weekend
Last week, the Island School campus was inundated with the parents of the Spring 2014 students. Aside from campus tours and a breathtaking art gallery, parents also got to witness…
CEI Researcher Dr. Jocelyn Curtis-Quick presents at Tedx Nassau
On Saturday, May 3rd, the first TEDx event in The Bahamas, TEDx Nassau 2014, took place. The event aimed to facilitate nationwide conversations about pressing issues in The Bahamas today,…
Lionfish invade Rock Sound Homecoming!
CEI Lionfish team visited Rock Sound’s homecoming celebration. Amid stands selling fritters, grouper, and curry chicken the crew erected a booth dishing out free samples of lionfish ceviche, passing out…
You Slay, We Pay!
The ‘You Slay, We Pay’ campaign is underway. Lionfish are invasive and devastating reefs; fortunately for us, they are delicious! However, these fish are still an untapped sustainable marine resource.…
Mitigating the Threats of Invasive Alien Species in the Insular Caribbean (MTIASIC) Project video competition
Check out this video that Island School communications assistant and IS alumnus Will Strathmann (F’07) created on lionfish for the Mitigating the Threats of Invasive Alien Species in the Insular…
Mitigating the Threats of Invasive Alien Species in the Insular Caribbean (MTIASIC) Project video competition
Island School communications assistant and IS alumnus Will Strathmann (F’08) created this video on the invasive species of lionfish for the Mitigating the Threats of Invasive Alien Species in the…
RSMAS help with the lionfish invasion
This week, the RSMAS group had a class on invasive species. As part of the class, team RSMAS got to go out with the lionfish researchers and help with spearing,…
MSSM presents on the effects of longline capture stress
The Maine School of Science & Mathematics blessed us with their presence for the 4th year in a row here at the Cape Eleuthera Institute! Dr. Debbie Eustis-Grandy and Dr.…
Lionfish study focused on South Eleuthera’s patch reefs is accepted for publication!
Good news for the continuing battle against invasive lionfish – a study conducted at CEI in collaboration with Simon Fraser University and Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF), and headed by…
CEI attends Abaco Science Alliance Conference 2014
FRIENDS of the Environment hosted the 6th Biennial Abaco Science Alliance Conference (ASAC). The conference goals were to provide a forum for networking and information sharing for Abaco and Bahamas-based…
Lionfish team completes December surveys
Wetsuits were in order as the lionfish team took to the seas for their December surveys of the patch reefs. A three-day blitz with eighteen dives brought us to sixteen…
CEI Researchers attend the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Conference
CEI’s Dr Jocelyn Curtis-Quick and Skylar Millar attended the 66th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute conference in Corpus Christi Texas last week. Jocelyn presented the research that her team and…
Outreach at local Wemyss Bight Primary School
Tiffany Gray, the Lead Outdoor Educator at CEI and Franchesca Bethell, a lionfish intern at CEI and a former BESS Island School alumni, recently had the opportunity to teach the…
Highlighting 3 Fall Interns with the Lionfish/Conch Programs
This Fall semester, The Lionfish and Conch Programs decided to do something new. They instituted a dual internship, which would focus on sustainable fisheries and marine conservation; interns would work…
Lionfish Research Manager Dr. Jocelyn Curtis-Quick expands the program over the past year
This September marks the one year anniversary of the arrival of the current Lionfish Research and Education Program (LREP) manager, Dr. Jocelyn Curtis-Quick. Jocelyn is a marine ecologist with over…
Save the Date for the Fall 2013 Island School and CEI Research Symposium
Newcastle University from the UK sends undergraduates to collect data at CEI
Seven undergraduate students from Newcastle University have been on campus since July 1, assimilating with various research groups at CEI. Each student is working on an individual project for their…
Lionfish team completes July patch reef surveys
The lionfish team has recently finished their fish abundance surveys, which are undertaken every three months. They visited sixteen reef patches in the Exuma Sound over three days. There are…
Lionfish Researcher Invasion
Currently CEI is overrun with lionfish researchers; it’s an invasion!The Oregon State University has a team of 6 here. The renowned lionfish researcher Dr. Mark Hixon was also on site for…
Conch Fest 2013
This past weekend, CEI participated in Conch Fest, the Homecoming celebration for the settlement of Deep Creek, where several CEI staff call home. The focus of this year’s booth was…
Spring 2013 CEI/IS Research Symposium was a success!
This past Saturday, CEI and IS hosted their Spring 2013 Research Symposium. The event consisted of research presentations and poster sessions, where Island School students got the chance to present…
CEI Symposium, a chance to highlight work done this spring
Last week, our second CEI Symposium kicked off with the first night of presentations by Liz Underwood on lionfish reproduction sites, Skylar Miller discussing larval lionfish recruitment, Maddy Young on…
Parents Weekend Spring 2013
This past weekend, the CEI and Island School campus had many visitors eager to hear about CEI research- Island School parents! Parents attended presentations given by IS students on current…
Lyford Cay at CEI
Lyford Cay grade 8 had a busy 3 days here at CEI diving into the plastics curriculum as well as some of the fun yet educational activities typical of our…
SFU sends two scientists to study lionfish in the food web
Here are two short bios from two visiting scientists from Simon Fraser University: Luis- I am a marine ecologist with background in oceanography and fisheries ecology; my research interests are…
April patch reef surveys completed by Lionfish Research team
Last week, the lionfish team here at CEI got out of the office and spent their working hours underwater- about 14 hours to be exact! They conducted a round of…
Island School students present introductions to their research projects
This past week, the SP13 Island School students presented Project Introduction presentations to their peers, staff, faculty, and the many visitors on campus. These presentations gave the students a chance…
CEI has an outreach booth at the Rock Sound Homecoming!
CEI attended the 2013 Rock Sound Homecoming as part of their community outreach, and engaged the local community members in a conversation about marine conservation. The CEI booth was packed…
Oregon State University Lionfish Lab hits the reefs of South Eleuthera
For the past two weeks, Mark Hixon’s graduate students from Oregon State University (Alex Davis, Tye Kindinger, and Lillian Tuttle) have been busy SCUBA diving on their experimental reefs where…
Fun activites on Foundation Day!
CEI staff came together with Island School and Deep Creek Middle School staff to celebrate the Cape Eleuthera Foundation. The day included an afternoon of fun activities and a beach…
Intern Profile: Elizabeth Underwood dives with lionfish!
Here is a short bio on Lionfish Research and Education Program intern Elizabeth Underwood:I’m originally from Atlanta, GA and my passion for marine biology research really took off when I…
CEI researcher Dr. Jocelyn Curtis-Quick gives presentation for the World Wildlife Fund
Over the holiday break, CEI Lionfish Research and Education Program Manager Dr. Jocelyn Curtis-Quick took a trip to the states to promote CEI lionfish research. She traveled to the World…
Lionfish Collecting and Handling Workshop at CEI
The next “Lionfish Collecting and Handling” Workshop organized by REEF in collaboration with the SPAW RAC will take place on May 15-18, 2012 at the Cape Eleuthera Institue. The workshop…
DCMS Community Outreach Project on Lionfish
Deep Creek Middle School student, Yanni Giannakopulous (grade 9) is leading both Island School and DCMS students through a project to educate local fishermen and restaurant owners on Eleuthera about…
Introducing CEI Research Assistants Jason Selwyn and Mike Piersiak!
My name is Jason and last semester I came to CEI as an intern with the Lionfish program. While working here I got to work on things ranging from catching…
Lionfish Research at CEI Adjusts Its Focus
[slideshow] The Lionfish Research and Education Program (LREP) at CEI has already had an exciting start to 2012! Last year, research efforts were focused on a lionfish removal study to…
“Conference Caffeine”
[slideshow] For those of us in the professional workplace, we know all too well that our day-to-day can get overwhelming, disheartening and sometimes banal. Even scientists, as exciting as our…
“Conference Caffeine”
[slideshow]For those of us in the professional workplace, we know all too well that our day-to-day can get overwhelming, disheartening and sometimes banal. Even scientists, as exciting as our research…
Dan Rather Reports from the Cape
Dan Rather along with a film crew and a team of producers visited Cape Eleuthera last week to film a piece about lionfish. The piece is for his show on…