Cave Scientific Interests:

• Studies in blue hole and black hole environments was inspired by curiosity and the desire to make a contribution to the presevation of this unique and irreplaceable windows into the past for geologists and biologists alike.
• Important questions as to how the caves formed and when and what the role of cave life might have played in the excavation processes are addressed in resent work.
• As a result of resent studies, bacteria are participants in the cave formation processes.
  
• The layering, often in hypersharp zones of biological material, matches or is perhaps caused by, equally dramatic changes in hydrogen ions and acetate and sulphate concentrations in the water.
• In all inland caves which contain a fresh water lens, pH, oxygen, temperature, salinity profiles were observed to change sharply in the transitional zone within the water column.
• In most inland study sites it could be shown that, vertically and horizontally, the geochemical perimeters varied dramatically.
• Organically mediated processes are a dominant control on dissolution within the fresh, mixing, and saline zone, particularly in black hole environments.
• The combined generation of PCO₂ results, known from earlier studies, and hydrogen sulphide and other bacterially measured activity, supports this finding.
• Retention of suspended organic matter was directly proportional to the salinity gradient.
• Elevated levels of dissolved organic carbon (DOC),particulate organic matter (POM) and acetate at the two major density interfaces confirm this finding.
• Thymidine results indicate a very activily multiplying population; 1,000000 cells/ml/day. 
  
• In the results generated from carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulphur (CHN&S) methods, wall rock material was found to contain residual carbon for potential microbial use, and large bacterial populations were identified throught the scanning electron micrograph (SEM) method in excess of what was measured within the water column.
• Significant lepidocrocite deposits (dimorphose iron oxihydroxide) were identified as a fraction of the cave sediment, and material known as "mung" based on amino-acid analysis, was shown to be proteinaceous; a biofilm. 
  
• The exceptionally large quantity of  biofilm appears to be unique to caves in the Bahamas.
• In a sense the cave system is an underground geo-biosphere wherein the peculiar water flow patterns foster a specific, sometimes rich and unusual, fauna and flora that is a treasure for science and a sight for humans to enjoy