Kamal James¹, Marie-Helene Cormier², Heather Sloan³, Trishna Ramsamooj⁴, Dominique Boisson⁵, Kelly Guerrier⁶, Casey Keegan Hearn⁷, John W King⁸, Roberte Momplaisir⁹, Steeve J Symithe¹⁰, Sophia Marie Johanne Ulysse⁶ and Nigel J Wattrus¹¹, (1)CUNY Lehman College, Bronx, NY, United States, (2)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (3)Lehman College, Bronx, NY, United States, (4)CUNY Lehman College, Bronx, United States, (5)University of Liege, Geology, Liege, Belgium, (6)State University of Haiti, Research Unit in Geoscience, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, (7)University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay, Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (8)Univ Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (9)UEH Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, (10)Université d'Etat d'Haiti, Faculté Des Sciences, URGéo, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, (11)University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States