Videos featuring the Coleman Labs research adventures

Reef fish communities of honduras

The Coleman Lab, in partnership with Dr. Juan Pablo Quimbayo and the BioScales lab, lead and expedition to Cayos Cochinos, Honduras to characterize Honduran reef fish communities as well collect samples as a part of a larger objective to understand genetic connectivity within the Caribbean Sea (March 2025).

MAXWELL | HANRAHAN FOUNDATION AWARD IN FIELD BIOLOGY

I recently had the amazing honor of being awarded the Award in Field Biology by the Maxwell | Hanranhan Foundation. This video discusses my research and how the award has impacted my professional goals. Video credit: Maxwell | Hanrahand Foundation

SEagrass fish communities along the Florida Keys

Dr. Coleman and Juan Gonzalez Corredor (Ph.D Student) discussing their research of fish communities that inhabit seagrass meadows across the Florida Keys.

Video by Jonathan Saupe (@jonathanjaredtv). Music: “Paradise Found" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 
 
video by Casey Lund

what excites me about being an explorer

A short video briefly explaining my excitement of conducting field research. Video credit: Casey Lund

In this episode we’re investigating where Hawaii’s fish come from with Dr. Brian Bowen’s research team at the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology. Brian’s team has just returned from a trip to Kiritimati—a remote, coral atoll 1,000 miles South of O’ahu. While at Kiritimati, Bowen’s team gathered genetic samples from local fish to compare with Hawai‘i fish. The relationships in DNA that they discover will tell us about the resiliency of our local fish populations, and reveal secrets of the historical migration of reef fish across Oceania. Find out more at voiceofthesea.org.

the kiritimati to Hawaiʻi connection

A Voice of the Sea episode which documented our research expedition to Kiritimati which aimed to discover the origins of Hawaiian fishes

In this episode, we’re investigating the origins of Hawaiian reef fishes with Dr. Brian Bowen’s lab at the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology. The Hawaiian islands are in the middle of the Pacific Ocean Basin and far away from other coral reefs—meaning that Hawaiian reef fishes originally arrived as larvae, traveling in currents from westward in Japan or southward from the Line Islands. Dr. Bowen and his researchers are using genetic tools to uncover the mystery of where Hawaii’s reef fish came from. Find out more at voiceofthesea.org.

Fish origins revealed in dna

Another Voice of the Sea episode which features our research, this time focusing on how DNA technology is used to discover where fish populations originate

A day’s work in papahanaumokuakea

Video from a month at sea aboard the NOAA R/V Hi'ialakai with a team of scientists and divers on a research cruise into the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Video credit: Morgan Winston