Marine Research Publications
Sea Turtle Research
Turtle Friendly Lighting Executive Summary (2024)
Turtle Friendly Lighting Full Report (2024)
Shark Research
The Sharklogger Network Research —Monitoring Cayman Islands shark populations through an innovative citizen science program. (2025)
Kohler J, Gore M, Ormond R, Austin T, Olynik J. PLoS One 20(5): e0319637.
SharkLogger Network 2025 Report
SharkLogger Network 2024 Report
SharkLogger Network 2022 Report
Marine General
Terrestrial Research Publications
DoE Sister Islands Rock Iguana Little Cayman population assessment 2026
Population assessment of the invasive Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) in Grand Cayman – September 2025
DoE Sister Islands Rock Iguana Little Cayman population assessment 2025
DoE rat monitoring report: Little Cayman 2023-2024
Analysis of trapping rates showing decline in numbers of feral cats in Little Cayman, 2022-2024
A study of feral cat impacts on wildlife and assessment of strategies to control them
Report on feral cat and rat removal and the breeding success of Brown Boobies: Cayman Brac 2023
Results of population estimates of feral cats using wildlife cameras: Little Cayman 2022-2023
Full report on DoE’s Sister Isles Rock Iguana population surveys on Little Cayman up to 2023
Report on a feral cat control session conducted in January-February 2023
Report on the health status and diet of feral cats on Little Cayman
Formal study on the feasibility of eradicating feral cats from all of Little Cayman
Full summary of green iguana population surveys on Grand Cayman up to 2023
A compilation of Cayman-specific evidence of the impacts of feral cats on wildlife (2019)
Report on an index of the feral cat population abundance using night surveys with flashlights: Little Cayman 2021-2023
Darwin Publications
Combining Adequate BRUV Deployment Times with Individual Photo-Identification Improves Monitoring of Shark Populations in the Caribbean.
Kohler, J.; Gore, M.; Ormond, R.; Mason, K.; Veeder A.; Austin, T.
Oceans 2025, 6, 70.
https://doi.org/10.3390/oceans6040070
First records of the roughskin dogfish Centroscymnus owstonii in the greater Antilles, central Caribbean Sea, Western Atlantic Ocean.
Olivia F. L. Dixon | Shannon E. Aldridge | Johanna K. Kohler | Anne Veeder | Paul Chin | Teresa F. Fernandes | Timothy Austin | Rupert F. Ormond | Mauvis A. Gore | Diego F. B. Vaz | Austin J. Gallagher
DOI: 10.1111/jfb.16008
Hyporthodus mystacinus Documented via Deep-Sea Landers throughout the Greater Caribbean.
Aldridge, S.E.; Dixon, O.F.L.; de Silva, C.; Kohler, J.K.; Shipley, O.N.; Phillips, B.T.;
Fernandes, T.F.; Austin, T.; Ormond, R.F.; Gore, M.A.; et al. Fishes 2024, 9, 114.
https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes9040114
Renewed occurrence of schooling scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) and of great hammerhead (S. mokarran) sharks in the Cayman Islands.
Gore M, Kohler J, Ormond R, Gallagher A, Fernandes T, Austin T and Pattengill-Semmens C (2024). Front. Mar. Sci. 11:1347285. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1347285
First records of the blurred lantern shark Etmopterus bigelowi from the Cayman Islands.
Gallagher AJ, Shipley ON, De Silva C, Kohler JK, Fernandes TF, Austin T, Ormond RF and Gore MA (2023). Western Atlantic. Front. Mar. Sci. 10:1165207. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1165207
Individual residency behaviours and seasonal long-distance movements in acoustically tagged Caribbean reef sharks in the Cayman Islands.
Kohler J, Gore M, Ormond R, Johnson B, Austin T (2023)
PLoS ONE 18(11): e0293884.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293884
First estimates of population size and home range of Caribbean reef and nurse sharks using photo-identification and BRUVS.
Johanna Kohler, Mauvis Gore, Rupert Ormond, and Timothy Austin (2023) Front. Mar. Sci. 10:1230896. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1230896
Maintaining Reef Resilience: The Characteristics and Spatial Distribution of Fishing Pressure from the Recreational and Artisanal Fisheries of the Cayman Islands.
Beth Henshall, MSc Thesis – Marine Environmental Protection, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Wales. 2009
The Effect of Long Established Marine Protected Areas on the Resilience of Caymanian Coral Reefs.
Sarah Gall, MSc Thesis – Marine Environmental Protection, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Wales. 2009
An Assessment of Caymanian Coral Reefs, Are the Long Established Marine No-Take Zones Enough?
Adam Barton, MRes Environmental Biology – University of St Andrews. 2010
Creating Environmental Risk Surfaces and Integrating Field Data with Conservation Targets for Goal Setting Purposes in Marxan
The Nature Conservancy Trip Report, 2011
Estimating Marine Reserve Effects through Quantification of Macro-Algal Biomass on a North-West Caribbean Coral Reef.
CroyMcCoy, Laura Richardson, John Russell Turner. Association of Marine Labs of the Caribbean 2011
Quantifying the Impacts of Recreational and Artisanal Fisheries in the Cayman Islands through the use of Socioeconomic Questionnaires.
Croy McCoy, Rhiannon Meier, John Russell Turner. Association of Marine Labs of the Caribbean 2011
Due to technology limitations, the report below is presented in five parts.
Recovery of Caymanian Reefs after a coral bleaching event; can Marine Parks help?
Jessica Campbell, MSc Thesis – Marine Environmental Protection, Bangor University. 2010 – PART 1
Recovery of Caymanian Reefs after a coral bleaching event; can Marine Parks help?
Jessica Campbell, MSc Thesis – Marine Environmental Protection, Bangor University. 2010 – PART 2
Recovery of Caymanian Reefs after a coral bleaching event; can Marine Parks help?
Jessica Campbell, MSc Thesis – Marine Environmental Protection, Bangor University. 2010 – PART 3
Recovery of Caymanian Reefs after a coral bleaching event; can Marine Parks help?
Jessica Campbell, MSc Thesis – Marine Environmental Protection, Bangor University. 2010 – PART 4
Recovery of Caymanian Reefs after a coral bleaching event; can Marine Parks help?
Jessica Campbell, MSc Thesis – Marine Environmental Protection, Bangor University. 2010 – PART 5
Darwin Initiative to Enhance an Established Marine Protected Area System in the Cayman Islands:
Post-Project Annual Report 2014
Economic Value of Cayman’s Marine Environment and Protected Areas (External Link)