Another Raimondi graduate student, Monica Moritsch, is doing really exciting research on the recent sea star epidemic. It attracted writers from the Canadian Hakai Magazine who wrote a piece on her work and made a short video. Check it out!
http://www.hakaimagazine.com/video/no-sea-stars-mussel-beach
Friday, June 12, 2015
Caught in the Act
This week was very exciting because my first high school intern, Evan, came to help with and learn about my research! Once Nicole finishes finals and comes next week we will take a group photo for the blog.
Since Evan was able to help out this week, we cleaned and counted the snails I currently have in the seawater table. When he was cleaning one of the cups, he caught a whelk in the act of eating! It had its proboscis extended into the gape of a mussel and it looked pink at the end, as if it were sucking up pink mussel flesh. I was so excited to see this I took several pictures. It was not easy to get it in focus, but see below for the best photos I could get.
Since Evan was able to help out this week, we cleaned and counted the snails I currently have in the seawater table. When he was cleaning one of the cups, he caught a whelk in the act of eating! It had its proboscis extended into the gape of a mussel and it looked pink at the end, as if it were sucking up pink mussel flesh. I was so excited to see this I took several pictures. It was not easy to get it in focus, but see below for the best photos I could get.
A Nucella sp. dogwhelk eating a large mussel by extending its proboscis into the mussel shell.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Shirts
My shirt came in and it looks great! Since people were interested in buying one of their own, I created a site where you can order one. Feel free to change the colors and style.
http://www.zazzle.com/epacs_ecoevo
http://www.zazzle.com/epacs_ecoevo
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