FEL Field Sampling
 

Megan, Greg, Chris, and Rachel sampling in Corpus Christi Bay with the lab's Majek

   

Courtney helping with the oyster cage project

VEMCO acoustic receiver (left) and the transmitter (right) we are using to track spotted seatrout

 

   

John, Megan, Bridgette, and Greg surgically implanting a VEMCO acoustic tag in a spotted seatrout

Megan, Greg, and John sampling in San Antonio Bay with the lab's Majek

   

Megan and Greg heading down to Baffin Bay

       

Miranda and Isis getting oyster cages ready for deployment



Miranda and Rachel working hard setting out the oyster cages in the background

 


Jenny and Megan collecing juvenile red drum




John and Greg seining near Packery Channel

 

 

Captain Mike McBride, Mike, Megan, and John sampling in the Lower Laguna Madre



Megan and Scott Large sampling in Lavaca Bay

 

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Ryan Fikes using the oyster sled in Lavaca Bay

 



John carrying samples

 

 

Suraida Nanez-James with juvenile flounder caught near Aransas Pass



Jenny with a large red drum caught in a gill net

       

Scott Large, Jenny, and Stephanie Carey samping in Lavaca Bay

   

Mike sampling along Port Mansfield Channel

       

Jim Simons from TPWD sampling with us in Lavaca Bay

   

Amanda Bushon, Greg, and Megan sampling in Corpus Christi Bay

       

John rough sorting a sampling along Port Mansfield Channel

   

Megan and Greg sampling for adult trout in San Antonio Bay

       

Tom Minello from NOAA Fisheries oyster study

   

Mike and John collecting juvenile spotted seatrout in the Lower Laguna Madre

       

Megan and Greg collecting juvenile spotted seatrout in San Antonio Bay

   

Amanda Bushon, Suraida Nanez-James, and Megan finishing a day of sampling near Packery Channel

       

Amanda Bushon catching her first redfish!

   

Whooping cranes at the Aransas Refuge

       

Oyster drop sampler, NOAA Fisheries

   

Epibenthic sled

       

Megan holding a blue crab

   

Jason James securing field growth enclosures containing juvenile red drum

       

Amanda Bushon and Megan sampling an ASU in the CC Ship Channel

   

Artificial Seagrass Unit (ASU)

       

Spotted seatrout catch-and-release study

   

Jason James sampling for the catch-and release study

       

Dana Burfeind as our "beginner" angler



Megan eats a raw oyster on the Marine Ecology Trip