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Registration for our CEI Hope 20 Summit closes this Friday, 11/13!
Register at link in bio.
09 Nov 2026
The Bahamas imports nearly 90% of its food. What can we do to increase food security in the region?
At CEI, we established an agroforestry site to produce fresh food for our dining hall and serve as a model for sustainable agriculture. Agroforestry, the intentional integration of trees into agricultural systems, increases farm productivity, economic resilience, and ecosystem services by leveraging natural ecological interactions. The Cape Eleuthera Resort and Marina has provided 22 acres of land for the system, located about ten minutes from our campus.
Students, visiting programs, and staff members of all ages are involved in the installation, monitoring, maintenance, and harvesting of the agroforestry system. Community participation serves as a core operational component, ensuring both experiential learning and long-term system stewardship.
Alongside Elidieu Joseph, the project is led by Paityn Wedder, Fall ā15 alumna @theislandschool
21 Oct 2026
World First! New Science Discoveries!
Gervaisā beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus) tagging success.
In September myself, Felice Major @bmmro and Julian Dale @julesdaledrone set out on an open ocean expedition to collect diving and foraging ecology data on a cryptic, fascinating and poorly understood whale species, Gervaisā beaked whale. Itās been a research ambition of mine for more than 25 years!
WEāVE ONLY GONE AND DONE IT!!š
We deployed sound and 3D movement recording tags (DTAGās) on four different individuals and now have a vast amount of unique data to delve into! It was a HUGE SUCCESS, which is still sinking in!
Our efforts were only possible thanks to the incredible support of our funders and collaborators. We are hugely grateful to @WWF_whales (Chris Johnson @chris.johnson.au)
@wereldnatuurfonds (WWF NL) Nathalie Houtman
Natalie Hodges and the team at @ceibahamas
Albury Catalina and the staff at @theislandschool
Dr Diane Claridge and Dr Charlotte Dunn from @bmmro
Alex Shorter @uofmichigan
Alex Bocconcelli WHOI @whoi.ocean
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Aerials @julesdaledrone
Stills by Felice Major @bmmro
This research was conducted under permit BS-2026-472365, issued to BMMRO, by the Department of Environmental Planning and Protection, Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, The Bahamas.
#research #expedition #whale #ocean #gervais
16 Oct 2026
This month, our team at the Cape Eleuthera Institute supported another ocean glider deployment in partnership with scientists from the University of Miami.
Since 2020, CEI has worked with the University of Miami and NOAA to deploy gliders during hurricane season. This latest glider was deployed east of Lighthouse Point, Eleuthera, and will spend the next three months collecting data on ocean temperature and salinity throughout the western Atlantic.
These measurements help scientists better understand the ocean conditions that influence hurricane intensification and improve models used to predict how quickly storms may strengthen.
@cimas_rosenstiel @miamirosenstiel @noaa_aoml #CapeEleutheraInstitute #CEIBahamas #Bahamas
16 Oct 2026
Paityn Wedder F15 returned to Eleuthera in 2025 to work towards building sustainable food systems @ceibahamas . Our agroforest, just around the corner from High Rock, continues to grow. Nowās your chance to get involved! Make a gift during CONCHtribution, and weāll plant something in your honor.
Give now by clicking the link in our bio.
16 Oct 2026
Join us for the Cape Eleuthera Institute Hope 20 Summit to celebrate 20 years of research, innovation, and education at CEI!
From November 30 to December 2, scientists, policymakers, educators, and community leaders will come together to celebrate environmental stewardship and drive the next chapter of discovery and impact.
Learn more and register at the link in our bio.
14 Oct 2026
This little 2-months-old queen conch juvenile raised @ceibahamas from egg, has made it to the top of the beaker to take a look around!
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Partnership project with @harborbranch @ceibahamas @longertablesfund
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#queenconchlab #queenconch #sealife #mollusk #bahamas
12 Oct 2026
Where do the Oceanic Whitetips of Cat Island go? Many of them head north toward the Carolinas and others travel south, but most find their way back again by late spring.
The Bahamas to Offshore Carolinas is now an Important Shark and Ray Area (ISRA) for the Oceanic Whitetip Shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), a species listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. This huge stretch of the western North Atlantic runs from the southern Bahamas to the shelf break off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and includes waters of The Bahamas, the USA, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, plus the high seas.
Between 2011 and 2013, researchers satellite-tagged 16 Oceanic Whitetips at Cat Island, where the species gathers every April to June. The sharks tagged in 2011 stayed within about 500 km of Cat Island for roughly a month before spreading out, some as far as Haiti, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Most of their regular movements happened in this corridor; five of the nine females tagged in 2011 used it to move north of The Bahamas. Six of seven sharks tagged in 2012ā2013 came back to The Bahamas, and most used the corridor in both directions.
The corridor connects the Cat Island - Columbus Point ISRA (see our recent post), with potential pupping areas off the Carolinas and near the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti.
A big group of scientists worked with the @iucnshark ISRA team in recent months to pull these data together. The result is 666,431 kmĀ² of ocean now recognized as an important movement area for Oceanic Whitetips.
If you're ever lucky enough to see one of these sharks offshore, now you know where it might be headed š¤
#sharkresearch #sharkconservation #marinebiology #bahamas #northcarolina
07 Oct 2026
Views from the Conch Lab microscope š¬
@queenconchlab
05 Oct 2026
Meet the baby sharks and rays of Cape Eleuthera! These mangrove creeks at the southern end of Eleuthera, The Bahamas, are where three threatened species mate and grow up.
Cape Eleuthera Creeks is now an Important Shark and Ray Area (ISRA) for the Lemon Shark (Negaprion brevirostris), the Atlantic Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum), and the Atlantic Chupare, also called the Caribbean whiptail stingray (Styracura schmardae). Lemon and Nurse Sharks are listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, and the Chupare is Endangered. Although folks know the more abundant Southern Stingray quite well, this Chupare ray is less well known and is an important endemic species in the wider Caribbean. It can be identified by its round disc as opposed to the diamond disc of the Southern Stingray.
Research in these five creeks (Page, Kemps, Rollins, Deep, and Broad) goes back about 20 years. Most baby Lemon Sharks tracked here in 2005ā2007 appeared to stay in the creeks year-round. Nearly two decades later, 86 newborn and young Lemon Sharks were documented across all five creeks between 2023 and 2025. Deep Creek is a nursery for the Atlantic Chupare: 97% of those caught there were juveniles, and every recapture happened in the same creek where the ray was first tagged. Groups of Nurse Sharks have been seen mating at and just off the creek mouths in May and June, in about 1 m of water, and locals report this happens regularly. Newborn Nurse Sharks have been found in Kemps Creek too.
We shared these data and worked with the @iucnshark ISRA team in recent months. The result is 5.65 kmĀ² of shallow creeks and coastal waters, overlapping The Bahamas Shark Sanctuary, now recognized as an important reproductive area for all three species. Although habitats like these are incredibly important, they are under threat from coastal development and habitat fragmentation, which we've seen in Deep Creek, especially.
If you're ever wading or paddling in Bahamian mangrove creeks, keep an eye out for these amazing critters.
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#visitbahamas #sharknursery #marinebiology #sharkconservation #bahamas
05 Oct 2026
Meet the Oceanic Whitetip Sharks of Cat Island! One of the coolest spots to dive anywhere on Earth.
Columbus Point, Cat Island is now an Important Shark and Ray Area (ISRA) for the Oceanic Whitetip Shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), a species listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
Local fishers were the first to notice whitetips here, because the sharks kept taking hooked fish before they could be landed. Between 2011 and 2024, a highly collaborative team led by the Cape Eleuthera Institute ran expeditions to Cat Island and sampled over 100 Oceanic Whitetips, all of them mature. About two out of three females scanned by ultrasound were pregnant. Some females had fresh mating scars, and we witnessed and described likely courtship between a male and a female. Many sharks kept coming back, and some were seen again up to five years after we first tagged them at this spot.
We shared these data and worked with the @iucnshark ISRA team in recent months. The result is 316 kmĀ² of Bahamian waters, already inside The Bahamas Shark Sanctuary, now recognized as an important reproductive area for Oceanic Whitetips. It's the only place in The Bahamas where pregnant females and reproductive behavior have been documented.
Know someone headed to The Bahamas who dives or fishes? Send this their way. This place is very special, especially in late spring and early summer when the sharks are most abundant.
More ISRAs coming soon!
#worldanimalday #marinebiology #sharkconservation #bahamas #visitbahamas
02 Oct 2026
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22 Sep 2026
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