Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Tubastraea Research Trip


Elliott Jessup and volunteer Scientific Divers in Training, Tom McNamara and Charles Evick, joined the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) along with Georgia Institute of Technology for a week of coral research aboard the 224’ OSV Bold, this time out of Key West. The purpose of this trip was to investigate a potentially invasive species of coral, Tubastraea coccinea.