On 12–15 March 1993, a severe winter storm (SC93) formed over the Gulf of Mexico, affecting Caribbean Islands and eastern coast United States (US) Canada with notable amount precipitation, snow local storms. In this study, we investigate origin precipitation generated by SC93 applying widely used Lagrangian moisture source diagnostic method. Our findings revealed that most came from western Nor...

The primary goal of the pilot is to determine whether a 3-D current model that can supply forecasts, nowcasts, and hindcasts of currents and hydrography with sufficient accuracy to be useful to a sizeable constituency around the Gulf of Mexico. Secondary goals include better identifying and meeting the needs of the various beneficiaries of such a model, increasing our understanding of Gulf of M...

The description of the pocket shark genus Mollisquama (M. parini Dolganov, 1984) is based on a single known specimen collected from the Nazca Ridge of the southeast Pacific Ocean. A second Mollisquama specimen has been captured in the central Gulf of Mexico establishing a considerable range extension and a parturition locality because the specimen has a healed vitelline scar. Both the holotype ...

STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE The northern Gulf of Mexico (i.e., U.S. Gulf of Mexico) continental shelf bottlenose dolphin stock inhabits waters from 20 to 200 m deep in the northern Gulf from the U.S.-Mexican border to the Florida Keys (Figure 1). Both “coastal” and “offshore” ecotypes of bottlenose dolphins occur in the Gulf of Mexico (Hersh and Duffield 1990; LeDuc and Curry 1998). T...

Citation: Wilson RM, Tyson RB, Nelson JA, Balmer BC, Chanton JP and Nowacek DP (2017) Niche Differentiation and Prey Selectivity among Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Sighted in St. George Sound, Gulf of Mexico. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:235. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00235 Niche Differentiation and Prey Selectivity among Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Sighted in St. Geo...

“This research was made possible in part by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (Grant No. SA12-03/GoMRI-003), and in part by grants from NSF (Grant No. CBET-1341901) and NIH (Grant No. 1-R21-EB008844-01). Data are publicly available through the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information & Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) at https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org (doi:10.7266/N744...

Nonindigenous parasite introductions and range expansions have become a major concern because of their potential to restructure communities and impact fisheries. Molecular markers provide an important tool for reconstructing the pattern of introduction. The parasitic castrator Loxothylacus panopaei, a rhizocephalan barnacle, infects estuarine mud crabs in the Gulf of Mexico and southeastern Flo...

Each year, millions of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) migrate up to 3000 km from their overwintering grounds in central Mexico to breed in eastern North America. Malcolm et al. (1993) articulated two non-mutually exclusive hypotheses to explain how Monarchs re-colonize North America each spring. The 'successive brood' hypothesis proposes that monarchs migrate from Mexico to the Gulf Coa...