This photo gallery documents most of the work that the Scientific and Technical crew onboard of the R/V Nancy Foster did during the 1st leg of the NOAA’s Coral Reef Ecosystems on-going interdisciplinary research project. This project intends to research the connectivity of fish larvae through the Caribbean by obtaining biological and physical oceanographic surveys of the Virgin Islands bank ecosystems. Some of the participating agencies were: the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, the University of Virgin Islands, the National Authority of Marine Issues of the Dominican Republic, the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) and the University of South Florida (USF).