Join us to learn how to identify Grunts found in the TWA.
Join us to learn how to identify Snappers found in the TWA.
Phil Foster State Park: Address: 900 East Blue Heron Blvd, Riviera Beach FL 33404.
Join us to do 2 ADVANCED DEEP WRECK DIVES in the afternoon of Jan 24th (11:30 check in) to hopefully see the aggregating Lemon Sharks.
The Lemon Shark dives are deep dives (88 ft) on manmade wrecks. THESE ARE VERY ADVANCED DIVES: You have to be able to descend quickly as it will be a hot drop in open ocean and you have to do a free descent & stay with the group.
Join us to learn the latest scientific information on Hamlets & learn how to identify Hamlets found in the TWA.
On December 14th, 2014, REEF staff and volunteers recorded the third successful pre-emptive removal of a non-native fish in south Florida coastal waters when they removed a mimic lemon peel surgeonfish (Acanthurus pyroferus) from waters under the Blue Heron Bridge in Palm Beach County.
Are you an experienced REEF surveyor in the Tropical Western Atlantic (TWA)? If so, you might want to check out our brand new underwater survey paper featuring an extended list of species. The double-sided list fits on the regular yellow slate. The longer list of species means less write-in species and more efficient data entry. When entering your data, just select the longer list in the "Species View" field at the top of the data entry field. You can find the new paper in REEF's online store here - http://www.reef.org/node/433.
Please join me this year by giving a gift to REEF this holiday season! I want to thank all those who have been so generous and have donated already. If you haven’t given yet, we are still a long way from our goal. Your donation this winter is critical so we can continue protecting marine species all year. Click here to donate now.
Examples of REEF’s important work that directly benefit marine species include:
We are proud to share news of a new scientific publication using REEF data that was recently published in the top-tier science journal, Ecology. The paper, "Demographic modeling of citizen science data informs habitat preferences and population dynamics of recovering fishes", was co-authored by fisheries scientists from NOAA Fisheries and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, along with REEF's Director of Science, Dr. Christy Pattengill-Semmens.