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GRIHMS uses acoustic and satellite telemetry along with natural tracers to study habitat requirements, life history, and movement cology of highly migratory species
06/22/2026
Meet the GRIHMS summer 2026 fellows! Jose, Evelyn, and Gabriel are current A&M Galveston undergraduates that have a passion for the marine fish. Follow along to see if we can check off all the "bucket list" items by the end of summer.
05/19/2026
Strong finish! Congratulations to Brett Sweezey for successfully defending his PhD titled “Spatiotemporal Movement, Habitat Use, and Trophic Ecology of Three Sympatric Shark Species at FlowerGarden Banks National Marine Sanctuary"🦈
After years of hard work and strategy, Brett officially secured the win!
"An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment." -Sir David Attenborough
Happy Earth Day 🌎
03/31/2026
I spy 👀...
Did you know tarpon, ladyfish and bonefish (and even eels, for those keeping count) begin life as transparent, ribbon-like larvae called leptocephali? Undergraduate students collected this leptocephali during Ichthyology lab learning various sampling techniques. While this specimen turned out to be ladyfish, tarpon leptocephali look remarkably similar. It’s a dramatic reminder of how tarpon transform from nearly invisible drifters into large, migratory species.