From the Field

February 18, 2024 –

Our amazing PhD Candidate, Fabio Buitrago, is currently in Roatán, Honduras to photograph the beautiful marine biodiversity.

February 10, 2025 –

Ethan Deyle visited Placencia, Belize to support our collaborators at Fragments of Hope with a drone workshop. He met with students from the University of Belize and exchanged study site data.

Group of people on a beach

November 19, 2024 –

Fieldwork can be unpredictable sometimes! Several members of the Kaufman-Deyle lab recently got caught in Tropical Storm Sara as it passed through Belize and other Central American countries earlier this month! Our students were in Belize for BU’s famous Marine Semester (BU Marine Program, a.k.a. BUMP), through which they learn about marine systems and related research techniques in classroom and field settings.

Below, undergrad researcher Emmanuelle Bogomolni and PhD candidate Fabio Buitrago setting the newest fashion trend (black plastic hoodies) while sheltering from TS Sara:

Oct 13, 2024 –

Our amazing PhD Candidate, Fabio Buitrago, is currently in Roatán, Honduras, photographing the beautiful marine biodiversity there to create audiovisual materials for education! Fabio is studying the functioning of trophic system in the Mesoamerican Reef. He spends 6 months per year registering all the organisms present at different depths, in different locations including Belize and Honduras.

Besides Fabio, who is human, the two species shown below are a Blue Parrot Fish (Scarus coeruleus) and a Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)!

Underwater photo of Fabio Buitrago, dressed in full scuba diving gear, swimming in light blue water while holding a large underwater camera appratus. Underwater photo of a bright blue fish peeking cautiously out from under a rock. Underwater photo of a turtle with mottled black and grey-green shell and black flippers. The turtle is resting on a sandy surface, eyeing the camera sidewise.