New Photography Methods
Lately we have been playing around with shooting fish on white backgrounds. The gist of the process is to use two strobes behind a phototank and pointing at a white … Read more
Fishmap.org
In the last few months, Ryan Crutchfield over at www.fishmap.org, has been working to create an API in order for us to display his wonderful range maps on … Read more
2015 Year in Review
As no doubt you have noticed, we may have slacked off a bit on reporting our trips this year. Rest assured that we made many trips, and photographed many new … Read more
Sargassum Community
This article was written in June 2015, and published in July 2015. Today I wanted to share a collecting trip of a different sort: sargassum sampling. Sargassum … Read more
Shad Identification
In North Carolina, members of the family Clupeidae include the herrings, shad, and menhaden. Although members of this family can be found year round, we wanted to specifically mention them today … Read more
Vermillion vs Silk Snappers
Some of the images used in our old posts such as this one were broken during our move at the end of 2019. We are aware and are working diligently … Read more
Species Range Maps in R
Lately we have been toying with the idea of developing species range maps for North Carolina fishes. Although we wish we could run this project full time, work keeps … Read more
Trip Report – Morehead City, NC
On Thursday, October 16th, I drove by the Morehead City visitors center looking for a sergeant major (Abudefduf saxatilis) that frequents the floating docks. Although I failed to find that … Read more
Trip Report – Cove City, NC
On Tuesday, October 7th, we drove to Cove City, NC in search of ironcolor (Notropis chalybaeus) and dusky (Notropis cummingsae) shiners. A coworker had pointed out a few creeks in … Read more
Trip Report – Rockingham, NC
On the 24th of September, we headed down to Rockingham, NC to a previously visited site, Hinson Lake. Hinson Lake is a well known spot for both the lined killifish, Fundulus … Read more