Joe Cavanaugh, currently REEF’s Director of Field Operations, has studied reproductive biology of long-finned squid, toxin accumulation in Sperm whales in Papua New Guinea, the effects that power plants have on New England bays, and is now looking at fish assemblages in the tropical western Atlantic. Holly Martel Bourbon, currently the Dive Safety Officer for the MA Division of Marine Fisheries/Marine Fisheries Institute and recently participated in a REEF lionfish expedition in the Bahamas and also co-led the September Northeast survey effort with Joe Cavanaugh.