Halmos Alumna Featured by Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative

At the beginning of August 2019, Halmos M.S. alumna Nina Pruzinsky and her research were featured by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI). As a master’s student in marine biology, Ms. Pruzinsky examined the abundance, distribution, and morphological characteristics of larval and juvenile tunas (family Scombridae) and identified primary drivers of their distribution to help fill this gap and inform future management and conservation efforts.

The research took place in the research laboratory of Halmos faculty member Tracey Sutton, Ph.D. who leads the DEEPEND Consortium, which is assessing how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill may have damaged the Gulf of Mexico’s little-explored deep-sea ecosystems.

GoMRI’s mission is to investigate the impacts of the oil, dispersed oil, and dispersant on the ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico and affected coastal States in a broad context of improving fundamental understanding of the dynamics of such events and their environmental stresses and public health implications.

For more information:http://gulfresearchinitiative.org/grad-student-pruzinsky-uses-morphological-patterns-to-id-young-tuna-for-population-assessments/