Tag: Intertidal
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“Robomussels” in the New York Times
For several years, starting first at UC Santa Barbara around 1999/2000, and then in the mid 2000’s and early teens at Hopkins Marine Station, I would spend one or two low tides per year going out to the seashore and gluing fake plastic mussels into the middle of real mussel beds (as shown above). These…
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Seastar wasting syndrome
2013 is turning out to be a bad year for seastars (starfish) along the west coast of North America. As documented by this UC Santa Cruz monitoring webpage, a wasting disease of unknown origin (possibly caused by bacteria or a virus) is causing seastars of several species to fall apart. The map provided by the…
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Pictures from Quoddy Head, Maine
Photo gallery from the Three Seas program trip to Lubec Maine. October 2010.