Crisis in Paradise: Bahamian Reefs Under Siege from Ocean Heatwave
By Natalia Hurtado (Perry Institute for Marine Science & Cape Eleuthera Institute at The Island School) Embrace the Season: Are You a Fan of Summer? For both Bahamians and visitors,…
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Crawfish Aquaculture comes to Eleuthera
Scientists from The Island School’s Cape Eleuthera Institute are working to set up a new nursery facility for growing crawfish in South Eleuthera, and they want members of the community…
Can you recognize the brainiest Caribbean coral?
By Natalia Hurtado (The Island School & Perry Institute for Marine Science) If you’ve ever been diving, snorkeling or spear fishing on a coral reef, you probably noticed corals that…
Ambassador Cindy McCain Tours Eleuthera & The Island School
Ambassador Cindy McCain, US representative to the United Nations agencies in Rome, accompanied by the Honorable Clay Sweeting, Minister of Agriculture, His Excellency Winston Pinnock, Ambassador to the Food and Agriculture…
Casita Chaos: How do discards in the Bahamian Spiny Lobster fishery affect predator-prey dynamics?
BAHAMIAN SPINY LOBSTER FISHERY Have you ever eaten a lobster tail at a restaurant like Red Lobster? If so, most likely, you have eaten a Caribbean spiny lobster tail. These…
Not All Doom and Gloom: Fish Physiology and Climate Change
Students in The Island School Semester participate in a research class, assisting our professional Research Staff with ongoing projects and data collection for a term. Each research class published a…
Stone Crabs: Don’t Clip the Biter, Stick It!
Ground-breaking research on the stone crab fishery in The Bahamas has identified an alternative method for claw removal that increases the chances of stone crab survival by nearly 30% once…
Coastal Landscaping
By Bronwyn Esterhuizen, Research Scientist On the north coast of the southwestern peninsula in Eleuthera, it’s hard to tell where land ends and sea begins. Mangroves and creek systems extend…
Field Notes from an Island School Apprentice
About the Writer: Jade Knowles, a 2017 Deep Creek Middle School alumna, spent her summer working as a Climate Change Research Apprentice at The Island School. She is from Nassau,…
Coral Spawning In The Bahamas
Every summer once the water temperature increases, several reef creatures know it is the time of the year to produce offspring by releasing their reproductive cells or gametes into the water column.
2022 Hurricane Forecast for The Bahamas
June marks the official start of hurricane season in the tropical North Atlantic and hurricane forecasters are predicting above-average activity in the North Atlantic Basin this year. Current predictions call…
Fast Fashion and Climate Change
What is Fast Fashion? Every year, we as a global society produce 92 million tons of clothing-related waste. This is enough discarded clothing to fill one garbage truck every second. …
SEARCHING FOR THE KRAKEN- CAPTURING A LIVE GIANT SQUID ON CAMERA FOR FIRST TIME IN U.S. WATERS
On June 18, the Cape Eleuthera Institute was part of a great moment in the history of deep sea exploration! Dr. Nathan Robinson, CEI Director, and Dr. Edie Widder, Co-Founder…
NEW RESEARCH MISSION IN THE BAHAMAS WILL FILL CRITICAL GAPS IN SHARK CONSERVATION DATA
Eleuthera, The Bahamas — Beginning June 25, OceanX, the Cape Eleuthera Institute (CEI), Florida International University (FIU), Microwave Telemetry and the Haiti Ocean Project (HOP) launched a new research and…
Alumni Spotlight: Andrieka Burrows (F’15)
Andrieka Burrows is the very first Island School student to present at the annual Bahamas Natural History Conference (BNHC) CEI and The Island School were well-represented at the regional 2016…
IS BESS students talk ponds at conferences
Christian McIntosh, a BESS scholar and a Fall 15 Inland Ponds Research Class student, recently presented the group’s work at the Abaco Science Alliance Conference. This conference is a biannual event hosted by…
CEI’s Anderson-Cabot Hall for Graduate Studies Opens to Create More Opportunities for Bahamians in Research
On Friday June 5th, Cape Eleuthera Institute (CEI) hosted a ribbon cutting on their newest building, Anderson-Cabot Hall for Graduate Studies. The grand opening was held during the SEA Change…
The Maxeys Make it to Bermuda!
Following the SEA Change Youth Summit held at The Island School June 5-7, Chris & Pam Maxey and their crew made up of Brittney Maxey, Mike Cortina (CSD sustainability teacher…
CEI’s Dr. Edd Brooks Featured in CNN Series
Cape Eleuthera Institute’s Dr. Edd Brooks, is featured on CNN’s series on new adventurers. Click here to watch the video and learn more about Edd’s amazing deep water discoveries happening right…
Island School Research Class Helps Assess the Local Reef Invertebrate Populations
Read about some of the amazing real-world work Island School students are doing in their research class taught by researchers at the Cape Eleuthera Institute! http://blog.ceibahamas.org/2015/05/13/island-school-research-class-helps-assess-the-local-reef-invertebrate-populations/
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,…
The Island School is on Google Maps Street View!
The Island School is excited to announce the launch of Island School Street View! You can now take virtual tours of The Island School, Cape Eleuthera Insitute, and Center for Sustainable…
SeaTrek’s Time at CEI
Cape Eleuthera Institute said goodbye this week to SeaTrek, a group of students aboard a sailing, scuba, and marine biology expedition. They kept a very detailed blog during their time…
The Island School and CEI on Local TV Station; Minister Supports Renewable Energy
During his visit to The Island School last weekend at the Research Symposium, the minister of the environment showed his support for our commitment to renewable energy and the environment!…
Maxey Celebrates a Monumental Research Symposium
Dear Proud Parents, We circled up at noon; I was moved to tell your children in the more intimate moment of our small circle how proud I am of the…
Game, Set, Patch!
By: Korinna Garfield, Sam Hastings, Atalanta von der Schulenburg, Maggie Bland, & Nathaniel Millard [slideshow] Hello! We are team Patch! On this research project we are looking at the spatial and temporal…
Sea Turtle Team
[slideshow] Sea turtles are on the endangered species Red List. The most common species of turtle found in the Bahamas is the green turtle, which we are studying. Previous studies in…
Conche Diem!
Our research group is determining the population density of Queen Conch (pronounced “conk”) in South Eleuthera. Specifically, we are seeing if there is enough conch in the area for reproduction,…
Island School Students’ First Week of Research Class
Research classes kicked off this week for The Island School students. On Tuesday, students broke into their 8 different research groups and spent the afternoon getting to know their research…
On Plastic Research Expedition with Kristal Ambrose
Cape Eleuthera Institute’s Kristal Ambrose embarked on her epic journey to of plastic research, leaving on April 24th.. From Nassau, Bahamas to Texas, USA; from Tokyo, Japan to Guam; and…
Recreating a Historical Shark Research Project
[slideshow] The joint CEI and University of Illinois shark research team just returned from the second of four, 2 week field expeditions to a shallow bank known as “the bridge”…
Introduction to Aquaponics Research
[slideshow] This semester’s Aquaponics team is now five weeks into our feed experiment testing the viability of fish silage as food for our Tilapia. Our team consists of the students,…
Introduction to the F’11 Biodigestion Research Project
By Tyler Courville and Ihna Mangundayao [slideshow] Did you know that 5.2 million people die every year from waste related diseases? Now you do! This is a result of irresponsible…
Camden Hills, Day 3
Hello Y’all,The Island School is an incredible place. We are all enjoying every moment we experience together and we’re really becoming a family. It was our third full day in…
South Eleuthera Kids Camp
A few weeks ago the Educational Programs team had the pleasure of running our longest standing camp, The South Eleuthera Kids Camp (SEKC) for a five day event filled with…
Aquaculture Research Class
[slideshow]Digging my fingers into the dog food like fish meal, I grabbed a handful and tossed it into the large tank filled with ravenous cobia. This is one moment that…
Fish Silage: Turning Fish into Fertilizer
Island School students, Aldis, Brett, and Sara are doing a human ecology project that utilizes the cobia harvesting waste into livestock feed and fertilizer, trying to further close the loop…
It is official, Gobies clean brood stock cobia!
What an exciting Monday morning for aquaculture! We now have 3 goby breeding pairs that have all laid eggs this week. Our most recent pair needed to be separated from…
Watching Lettuce Grow – Aquaponics Research
Lactuca Sativa [April 1, 2011 – April 4, 2011], known to his friends and family as Green Grand Rapids Tropicana Lettuce passed away last Monday as a result of faulty…
Aquaponics Research Field Day
[slideshow] by Apon Research Students Slimy fish squirmed between our fingers as we tried to avoid their spikes while getting accurate data for our Aquaponics research project. Today was our…
A Bonefish Expedition
[slideshow] By C.J., Noah, Hannah, Ellen, Heather, and Chris D. The Flats Research team recently traveled by boat to Kemp’s Creek to catch bonefish. Our research group is studying bonefish,…
Interning at Cape Eleuthera Institute
[slideshow] We are interning in Flats Ecology research at the Cape Eleuthera Institute and learning so much about the effects of global climate change on many flats species such as, Queen…
Harvesting Cobia with the Aquaculture Research Team
Today we strayed from our usual “water parameter, goby feeding” routine and went diving into the offshore cage. We loaded nets, bags, and scuba gear into Red Rising. Sitting on…
Making Our Own Energy
Greetings from the Energy Research team! In the past few weeks we have been learning background information on the renewable energy systems on our campus and ways to conserve energy.…
Shark Team Catches Its First Lemon Shark!
After four consecutive research classes with no sharks on the line, the shark team finally caught their first lemon shark. Then, as if to make up for lost time, they…
The value of our research program
So I composed some of my thoughts today for an article my college is writing about David Philipp and me. (We’re both Lafayette College alum and are now the Chief…