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Team

Megan Davis, Ph.D.

Megan Davis, Ph.D.

Megan Davis, Ph.D.

Research Professor

FAU HBOI


Dr. Davis has over 40 years of experience in marine biology, and specifically in stock enhancement and aquaculture. She has extensive global experience, particularly in the Caribbean Sea region. She works on a multitude of fisheries-based projects with communities and industry, and is internationally recognized for her decades of scientific work in the field.


Becky Holt

Megan Davis, Ph.D.

Megan Davis, Ph.D.

Program Manager

FAU HBOI

  

Becky is a senior executive and MBA with a decade of experience in the aquaculture and conservation nonprofit sector. Her experience in marketing, organizational strategy, and community building, has introduced her to countless international seafood operators - from artisanal fishers to leading aquaculture produce

Program Manager

FAU HBOI

  

Becky is a senior executive and MBA with a decade of experience in the aquaculture and conservation nonprofit sector. Her experience in marketing, organizational strategy, and community building, has introduced her to countless international seafood operators - from artisanal fishers to leading aquaculture producers. She helps develop partnerships that will lead to a conch farm in every Caribbean Nation.


Christopher Waln

Megan Davis, Ph.D.

Christopher Waln

Advisor

Principal Member, Retired

CAWALN Consulting


Mr. Waln has over 40 years of experience in engineering, program management, test & evaluation and strategic planning and management. Seventeen of those years were in Federal policy and financial management roles. He presently mentors executives and college students in strategic decision making.

Partners

We collaborate daily with our partners in Naguabo, Puerto Rico. Conservación ConCiencia and the Naguabo Fishing Association are instrumental to the success of the island's first community-led conch hatchery for restoration.

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We worked with Green Island Blue Ocean (Catherine Booker) to develop the FAU Mobile Lab and this project has since rolled into a partnership with BNT to operate the lab with the goal of restocking queen conch in BNT’s managed Moriah Harbor Cay National Park in Great Exuma. This project’s funding is from the Richard Schneider Trust. In Grand Bahama, we are working with BNT on several objectives, including diversified livelihoods for fishermen, teaching ocean conch ranching skills, and communicating the queen conch lifecycle.

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The Curaçao Hatchery, located at the Curaçao Sea Aquarium, has been in operation since 2020. The Queen Conch Lab provides scientific advice and training for the team that operates a medium-size hatchery. With a captive population of adult queen conch the hatchery has a steady supply of conch eggs and continues to show success in growing conch juveniles for restoration and sustainable seafood purposes. 

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Collaborators

Leah Biery

Kimani Kitson-Walters Ph.D.

Victoria Cassar

Director of Tampa Bay Watch Discovery Center

Florida, USA

Victoria Cassar

Kimani Kitson-Walters Ph.D.

Victoria Cassar

Science Communicator and Artist

Worldwide

Laura Issac Norton

Kimani Kitson-Walters Ph.D.

Kimani Kitson-Walters Ph.D.

Marine Scientist, FAU HBOI

Florida, USA

Kimani Kitson-Walters Ph.D.

Kimani Kitson-Walters Ph.D.

Kimani Kitson-Walters Ph.D.

Data Monitoring Officer and Researcher

Caribbean Netherlands Science Institute, 

St. Eustatius  


Risha Alleyne

Genevieve Renaud-Byrne & Molly Wilson Ph.D.

Juli-Anne Royes Russo, Ph.D.

Entrepreneur, Environmentalist and Aquaculturist (Erasmus Plus Scholar)

Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Juli-Anne Royes Russo, Ph.D.

Genevieve Renaud-Byrne & Molly Wilson Ph.D.

Juli-Anne Royes Russo, Ph.D.

Aquaculture and Marine Scientist

Italy & Jamaica


Genevieve Renaud-Byrne & Molly Wilson Ph.D.

Genevieve Renaud-Byrne & Molly Wilson Ph.D.

Genevieve Renaud-Byrne & Molly Wilson Ph.D.

Elkhorn Marine Conservancy

Antigua

Drucilla & Gabriel Moulin

Genevieve Renaud-Byrne & Molly Wilson Ph.D.

Genevieve Renaud-Byrne & Molly Wilson Ph.D.

Karukera Queen Conch Association

Guadeloupe

Philip "Skip" Kemp & Margie Coxe Kemp

Philip "Skip" Kemp & Margie Coxe Kemp

Philip "Skip" Kemp & Margie Coxe Kemp

Kemp Fisheries LLC & 

Big Blue Excursions

Morehead City, NC & USVI


Sven Lapiner

Philip "Skip" Kemp & Margie Coxe Kemp

Philip "Skip" Kemp & Margie Coxe Kemp

President, Jamaica Conch Restoration Project

USA & Jamaica


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