Chris Tancredi

My name is Christina Tancredi and I am a Ph.D. student in the Cordes Lab at Temple University. I study a species of deep-sea (cold water) coral called Lophelia pertusa. This species is found all over the deep ocean, but I mostly study it in the Viosca Knoll leasing block in the Gulf of Mexico, where it forms large reefs which may be associated with commercially important fish.

I am trying to find out if there have been declines in the amount of living Lophelia pertusa in this region from analysis of archival and recent video footage.