Images

Fiddler crab burrows abound in and around the intricate red mangrove root
system submerged in the muddy tidal flats at West Lake Park.

Young red mangrove trees grow among the prop roots of mature red mangroves
at West Lake Park.

A mangrove crab camouflaged on the trunk of a mangrove tree at West Lake
Park.

A red mangrove and its intricate aerial root system in west lake waters.

Seen beyond the dirt road are smooth, green grasses of a turf farm located in
the vicinity of Lake Okeechobee.

Green stagnant waters fill this drainage ditch that lies in front of an orange
grove located in the vicinity of Lake Okeechobee.

Wider view of Canal 59 in the foreground and Control Structure S-191, which
controls water flow into Lake Okeechobee.

On the Lake side of Control Structure S-191, a double-crested cormorant
balances atop a buoy floating in Lake Okeechobee.

To gain access to Lake Okeechobee, boaters anchor themselves to the Port
Mayaca Navigational Lock wall as the canal-side gates close.

Cattle grazing north of Lake Okeechobee, where cattle ranching and farming is
extensive.

After the canal-side gates at the Port Mayaca Navigational Lock closed,
lakeside gates opened and rushing Lake Okeechobee waters were admitted
into the enclosed area.

With the Lake Okeechobee lakeside gates open, boaters get ready to exit the
Port Mayaca Navigational Lock.

Boaters leave the Port Mayaca Navigational Lock and head out into the open
waters of Lake Okeechobee.

Looking through the open lakeside gates of the Port Mayaca Navigational Lock,
onto Lake Okeechobee.

The lakeside gates of the Port Mayaca Navigational Lock in their closed position.
Lake Okeechobee lies beyond the gates.

Ryan’s thesis research focuses on the importance of appropriate spawning substrate as a key driver of paddlefish restoration success in reservoirs of Oklahoma. Paddlefish, an important sportfish, have been stocked in reservoirs throughout the State, but these stocking efforts have had variable success.

An alligator sunning itself along the banks of a canal, in Big Cypress National
Preserve.

Red-faced warblers are one of the species affected by climate change in the form of reduced snowpack in the Arizona Mountains, according to a USGS Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit study.

Several red mangrove "islands" in an intracoastal waterway. Photograph taken circa 1998.

Cecioides consobrinus shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope with aperture facing up.

Juvenile white sturgeons on measuring board.