Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Movement Ecology and Reproductive Resilience (MERR) Lab
Led by Sue Lowerre-Barbieri · Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences
What we study
The MERR Lab studies how marine fish reproduce and survive in the ocean, focusing on movement strategies and resilience to fishing and environmental changes. They use tools like acoustic telemetry, genetics, and models to understand fish behavior and population health.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Marine organisms
- Coding helps
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
ITAG
A collaborative network tracking marine animals, including sea turtles and white sharks, using acoustic telemetry.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Use of the Gulf of Mexico as an overwintering area by western North Atlantic white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias)
2026 · Wildlife Research
Uses satellite and acoustic tags to track white sharks in the western North Atlantic and study their overwintering areas.
- Application of Close-kin mark-recapture (CKMR) to Protogynous Fishes
2026 · Fisheries Research
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- Spatiotemporal patterns and habitat use of silky and sandbar sharks at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary
2026 · Frontiers in Marine Science
Maps the movements of silky and sandbar sharks in a marine protected area to understand their habitat use.
- White shark occurrence in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary revealed from acoustic telemetry in an offshore MPA
2026 · Frontiers in Marine Science
Tracks white sharks in the Gulf of Mexico using acoustic tags to study their presence in a marine sanctuary.
- Variability in the supply of essential fatty acids and food-web linkages through red drum egg boons
2025 · ICES Journal of Marine Science
Measures the availability of essential fatty acids in red drum egg boons and how they affect food webs.
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