https://www.amustard.com/library Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:40:10 +0000 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:40:10 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Zenphoto RSS Generator https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-11934.jpg A large female stingray (Dasyatis americana) forages over seagrass in shallow water. The Sandbar, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
Date: 08/04/2016]]> https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-11934.jpg Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:48:24 +0000 https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-11861.jpg A large female stingray (Dasyatis americana) swims over sand in shallow water. The Sandbar, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
Date: 08/04/2016]]> https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-11861.jpg Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:41:21 +0000 https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-12804.jpg A shallow depth of field portrait of a longspine squirrelfish (Holocentrus rufus). East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribbean Sea.
Date: 08/04/2016]]> https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-12804.jpg Sat, 30 Jan 2016 08:04:41 +0000 https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-12247.jpg A high magnification photo of a secretary blenny (Acanthemblemaria maria) in a boulder brain coral (Colpophyllia natans). East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
Date: 08/04/2016]]> https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-12247.jpg Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:32:59 +0000 https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-11162.jpg A diver (Debbie Wragg) explores beneath the decks of the USS Kittiwake wreck (US Military submarine rescue vessel). Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
Date: 08/04/2016]]> https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-11162.jpg Thu, 28 Jan 2016 04:47:21 +0000 https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-11940.jpg A large female, and two smaller male southern stingrays (Dasyatis americana) forage over seagrass in shallow water, accompanied by bar jacks (Caranx ruber). The Sandbar, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
Date: 08/04/2016]]> https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-11940.jpg Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:49:11 +0000 https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY15_am-107998.jpg A diver (Brittainy Slade) swims through a narrow cavern in a coral reef. East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
Date: 08/04/2016]]> https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY15_am-107998.jpg Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:03:11 +0000 https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-12210.jpg A juvenile sunshinefish (Chromis insolata) on a deep reef wall. East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
Date: 08/04/2016]]> https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-12210.jpg Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:16:22 +0000 https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-10461.jpg A silhouette of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) growing on a coral reef. East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.

For about the last two million years, branching elkhorn coral has been a dominant shallow reef building species across the Caribbean. Then about 35 years ago things changed. This once abundant species died off to such an extent that it is now rare or even extinct over much of its former range. US waters are the best studied, and there the coverage of this species declined by 98% during the 1980s. That’s pretty typical for the region and this species is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
Date: 08/04/2016]]> https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-10461.jpg Tue, 26 Jan 2016 03:46:17 +0000 https://www.amustard.com/library/fifteen/CAY16_am-10337.jpg Inside a coral cavern. Iron Shore Gardens, East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
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