Videos

Bahamian science communicator Lashanti Jupp interviews Dr. Megan Davis, Research Professor at  Florida Atlantic University Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, to discuss Queen Conch Aquaculture and if we can "save the queen conch" through this process.

August 2021

Laura Issac Norton graduated from Florida Atlantic University with her Master’s in Marine Science and Oceanography. During her time at FAU, she traveled to The Bahamas to help design and operate a queen conch restoration hatchery. In fact, she spent so much time in the water studying the queen conch, the community nicknamed her the "conch girl".

May 2020

The documentary For the Love of Conch features our queen conch research and conservation efforts in The Bahamas. You can view the trailer and short version of this wonderful documentary on Vimeo.

July 2019

Megan fell in love with the queen conch while sailing in the Bahamas with her family. Her passion to grow and conserve the conch followed her to college and then to the Turks and Caicos, where she was the co-founder of the World's first conch farm. In this talk, learn about queen conch, conch pearls, and where a marine scientist's career can go when one dreams big.  

June 2014