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Paris' lab: Physical-Biological Interactions Laboratory

The research lab of Dr. Claire Paris-Limouzy at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

e of these interactions is essential to our understanding of population fluctuations, species expansion range, biodiversity, and their response to climate change. The Physical-Biological Interactions Laboratory is dedicated to research fundamental questions about the behavior of the living ocean, with an emphasis on the interactions between the so-called ‘Critical Period’ of marine organisms and the ocean dynamics acting both as forcing mechanism and ecological niche. Understanding why and how larvae survive and migrate is essential in answering questions of adaptations to the pelagic environment. The areas of investigation that we are pursuing include: the development of coupled biophysical individual-based models (IBMs) for dispersal, connectivity, and gene flow; innovative in situ observations and quantification of larval behavior, monitoring and manipulating proximal cues; and lab experiments on the ontogeny of the sensory contribution to dispersal in response to physical signals observed in the ocean.

07/07/2023

04/12/2023

We wish to raise some funds to buy and ship freediving kits (mask, snorkel, fins) to our f… ricardo paris needs your support for São Tomé Marine Conservation

01/04/2023

We’ve been packing for the last few days to make sure we are ready for our expedition to train Scientific Freedivers to collect critically important fish behavior data in the Portuguese speaking Island Nation of São Tomé and Principe off Central Africa 🇸🇹

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01/02/2023

Welcoming 2023 with a interplay of fluid dynamic between light and water

12/30/2022

Dr. Claire Beatrix Paris and the Scientific Freediving crew University of Miami's Rosenstiel School Department of Ocean Sciences are collaborating with Professor Alexandra Teodósio in the Little Fish Project of São Tomé & Principe, a Portuguese-speaking African island nation near the equator. LittleFish-STP
We are excited to work with the local community to better understand their marine resources, particularly the goldfish, an endemic gobi that is of great importance to the local fishery.
As part of the project, we will be teaching the PADI Scientific Freediver course and we are in need of freediving equipment donations such as masks, snorkels and fins! 🙏🏼 email to [email protected] before January 3rd 🤿

The project is funded by the University of Algarve, Portugal 🐟 Alexandra Teodósio

12/22/2022

Here I am laying down in my favorite space at Dean’s Blue Hole, a unique mesocosm of ocean and coral reef.
A mesocosm is a “bounded and partially enclosed outdoor experiment to bridge the gap between the laboratory and the real world in environmental science” —Odum

12/16/2022

To a fellow ichthyologist and great friend —Joel Llopiz

“In the spirit of Christmas and the Holidays, please donate to ‘Joel and Martha's Support Fund’ 🙏🏼 No amount is too small to help Joel and his family focus on beating the rare form of cancer he is fighting is a fellow ichthyologist https://t.co/8yfmLQWEtI”

12/15/2022

Congratulations to our collaborators on this extraordinary global analysis of larval fish movement behavior from the Paris Lab: we demonstrated for the first time that fish larvae from most, if not all species around the world are navigators!
Article in Communications Biology:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-04137-7
Authors: Drs. Igal Berenshtein, Robin Faillettaz, Jean Olivier Iraison, Moshe Kiflawi, Ulri Sibeck, Jeff Leis, and Claire Beatrix Paris

12/03/2022

Our next field work on larval fish navigation will take place in São Tomé, Portugal —project LittleFish 🐟
University of Miami's Rosenstiel School Department of Ocean Sciences

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We focus on the larval stages of marine organisms and how they interact with the physical environment to survive and navigate towards nursery grounds. Statement of Research Interests Although most marine organisms are planktonic during the early part of their life cycles very little is known about the physical-biological interactions that enhance their development and survival. A better knowledge of these interactions is essential to our understanding of population fluctuations, species expansion range, biodiversity, and their response to climate change. The Physical-Biological Interactions Laboratory is dedicated to research fundamental questions about the behavior of the living ocean, with an emphasis on the interactions between the so-called ‘Critical Period’ of marine organisms and the ocean dynamics acting both as forcing mechanism and ecological niche. Understanding why and how larvae survive and migrate is essential in answering questions of adaptations to the pelagic environment. The areas of investigation that we are pursuing include: the development of coupled biophysical individual-based models (IBMs) for dispersal, connectivity, and gene flow; innovative in situ observations and quantification of larval behavior, monitoring and manipulating proximal cues; and lab experiments on the ontogeny of the sensory contribution to dispersal in response to physical signals observed in the ocean.