Mote Marine Laboratory, Summerland Key

  
 
The Mote Marine Laboratory field station's main lab, boat and Thomas.

Florida Keys deck sampling

  
 
Erich Bartels setting up deck UV sensors, Richard Zepp monitoring UV over depth in nearshore and offshore waters, and G. Chris Shank collecting Florida Keys waters in the Mote and Ali Kat boats.

Florida Keys' Sombrero Tower

  
 
UV sensors at Sombrero Tower, with Erich Bartels, me and Richard Zepp, under approaching storms.

Mangrove leaf leaching experiments

 
 
 
Blimp Road Rhizophora mangle trees. Leaves collected for leaching experiments include senescent (yellow on tree), freshly fallen (orange in water), and decomposing (brown in water). After 45 hours, the most colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) is produced from freshly fallen (orange) leaves, followed by scenescent (yellow) leaves, and very little from decomposing (brown) leaves. Temperature also influences leaching, e.g., from scenescent (yellow) leaves at 27 and 32°C.

Key West museums

 
 
Butterflies at the Conservatory and cats at the Hemingway Home.

Key West boardwalk

 
  
Shank and Zepp in the boardwalk show, Dominique & His Flying House Cats, Wyland finishes his coral reef mural.