Ibarra-Castro Lab News

Please welcome Haley Roessling to Whitney Lab! She joins the Ibarra-Castro Lab as an aquaculture technician. Read More

Karen joins the Ibarra-Castro Lab to pursue a Ph.D. in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.  Read More

This summer he is working under Dr. Leonardo Ibarra-Castro with various components of aquaculture such as the breeding processes of different species under controlled conditions, the behavior, preferences, and conditional effects of juveniles, wild stock sampling, tagging, and tracking, and the release processes of different species in various locations. He is also helping with husbandry of the organisms. Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Leonardo Ibarra-Castro and colleagues who published papers in Algal Research -"The effect of nitrogen limitation on carbohydrates and β-glucan accumulation in Nannochloropsis oculata" and in Revista de Biología Tropical - "Ontogeny of digestive enzymes in larvae of the Clown Anemonefish, Amphiprion ocellaris (Perciformes: Pomacentridae)." Read More

Please welcome Nikolas Kuncis to Whitney Lab! He joins the Ibarra-Castro Lab as an aquaculture technician. Read More

Florida Oceans Day is Florida Ocean Alliance’s annual conference of members, friends, officials and legislators who share common interests in Florida’s marine and coastal resources and their critical role in sustaining a healthy blue economy in the state. Read More

Please welcome Jon Rueben to the Whitney Laboratory! He recently joined the Osborne and Ibarra-Castro Labs as a Biological Scientist. Read More

Please welcome María Laura Tejeda Miramontes, a visiting scholar, to the Whitney Laboratory. While at Whitney, Maria Laura will be joining the Ibarra-Castro lab to continue her master's training under the direction of Dr. Leonardo Ibarra-Castro. Read More

Please welcome Catalina Williams to Whitney Laboratory! She recently joined the Ibarra-Castro and Osborne Labs as an aquaculture technician. Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Leonardo Ibarra-Castro who has been selected to receive the "Eric Pederson" for Innovation and Technological Development Award for his contribution to the development of aquaculture in Mexico. Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Leonardo Ibarra-Castro who recently published a paper with colleagues titled "Technical-economic viability of white snook Centropomus viridis culture in floating cages in a coastal lagoon in northwestern Mexico" in Aquaculture Reports. Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Leonardo Ibarra-Castro who recently published a paper titled "Effect of salinity on growth, survival, and serum osmolality of red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus" in Fish Physiology and Biochemistry. Fish used during the experiment were sourced from wild brood-stock spawned at the University of Florida and grown at Whitney Laboratory. Read More

Please welcome Maddie Morrison to Whitney Laboratory! She recently joined Whitney's Fish Aquaculture Program with Dr. Leonardo Ibarra-Castro as an Aquaculture Technician. Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Leonardo Ibarra-Castro who recently published a paper titled "Characterization of digestive enzymes during early ontogeny of white Snook (Centropomus viridis)" in Aquaculture. Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Leonardo Ibarra-Castro who recently published a paper titled "Revision of the diagnostic characters of two morphologically similar snook species, Centropomus viridis and C. nigrescens (Carangiformes: Centropomidae)" in Zootaxa. Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Leonardo Ibarra-Castro who recently published a paper titled "Advances in spotted rose snapper (Lutjanus guttatus, Steindachner, 1869) juveniles production" in Revista de Investigaciones Marinas. Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Leonardo Ibarra-Castro who recently published a paper titled "A new efficient method for the mass production of juvenile spotted rose snapper Lutjanus guttatus" in Aquaculture Reports. Read More

Learn more about what Dr. Leonardo Ibarra Castro and team are doing to improve fish aquaculture here in Florida and beyond! Read More

Dr. Leonardo Ibarra-Castro talks with First Coast News about Whitney Laboratory's new fish aquaculture start up in the story - Go Fish! Researchers work to restock red snapper in the wild. Read More

Please welcome Research Assistant Scientist Dr. Leonardo Ibarra-Castro to Whitney Laboratory! Dr. Ibarra will be working toward developing Whitney's Marine Hatchery Program. Read More