Research in action
Click to play any of our documentary videos featuring VI-EPSCoR researchers and students.
Click to play any of our documentary videos featuring VI-EPSCoR researchers and students.
Learn about VI-EPSCoR-sponsored research taking place on St. Croix. Watch now to learn more, and visit our website, viepscor.org
Biologists at the University of the Virgin Islands with support from VI-EPSCoR Mare Nostrum Caribbean are tagging endangered green and hawksbill sea turtles in an effort to better understand their populations within Brewers Bay. The data gathered from this ongoing project will help the island of St. Thomas to better protect, manage and conserve its sea turtles.
Nassau grouper are now listed as commercially extinct on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Red List (IUCN) and is considered “Threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. See how conservation efforts and partnerships with local fishermen are helping bring this species back from the brink of extinction.
In October of 2022, a collaborative effort between Ocean Spirits, The Hawksbill Project, and the University of the Virgin Islands, conducted the first in-water survey of sea turtles around the island of Carriacou, Grenada.
Although the impact of invasive seagrass remains largely unknown, diligent researchers from the University of the Virgin Islands are fervently engaged in uncovering its effects on the surrounding ecosystem.