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Recent Global Sea Levels and Land Levels

By Helen Gordon | January 26, 2015

Recent Global Sea Levels and Land Levels Aubrey, D.G. and K.O. Emery In: Warrick, R.A., E.M. Barrow, and T.M.L. Wigley (eds.), Climate and Sea Level Change: Observations, Projections and Implications, Proceedings Climate Change Workshop, Norwich, U.K. Cambridge University Press, pp. 45-56, 1993 WHOI-R-93-015

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Research into American Lobster Reproduction

By Stephanie Murphy | April 23, 2023
Professor Jeff Shields measures the underbelly of a pregnant female lobster at the Seawater Research Lab at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Part of a National Sea Grant College Program study led by Emily B. Rivest and Jeff Shields at Virginia Institute of Marine Science to see how lobster eggs and larvae respond to ocean acidification and warmer waters. Although the lobsters being studied are from Maine and Massachusetts, some lobsters can be found in Virginia waters. March 11, 2021

A New Interactive StoryMap Highlights Projects from the Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative A new web-based StoryMap highlights research being conducted by scientists into the reproduction of the American lobster. The scientific studies and the work to communicate about them are part of the American Lobster Initiative of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National…

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1998-2000 Projects

By Helen Gordon | January 28, 2015

Laboratory-based Transmission of the QPX Parasite in Cultured Hard Clams and Studies on the Progression of the Disease Roxanna M. Smolowitz, University of Pennsylvania’s Laboratory for Aquatic Animal Medicine and Pathology, and Dale F. Leavitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The farming of hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria, aka, quahog) is one of the fastest growing aquaculture…

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