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Lauren
Van Thiel and Lauren
Yamane measure organism body temperatures
alongside a mini weather station which is collecting data on
solar radiation, wind speed, air temperature, and relative humidity.
Scientists use weather data to mathematically model organism
body temperatures. |
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Dr.
Bill Ballantine is photographing a
permanent quadrat on Echinoderm Reef in the Leigh Marine Reserve,
New Zealand. Dr. Ballantine has been monitoring this reef for many
years and is particularly interested in the population dynamics
of the limpet, Cellana radians. |
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Dr.
Brian Helmuth and Lauren Szathmary are attaching a Robomussel using Z-spar
to an intertidal reef in Oregon. Robomussels are made out of
epoxy resin and have an embedded temperature logger. They are
designed to accurately mimic the body temperature of real mussels
to within 1°C. |
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Sierra Jones and Dr. Jennifer Jost install
shades in the saltmarsh at Baruch Marine Field Laboratory in South
Carolina. The shades are part of an experiment to look at the effect
of temperature on the mussel, Geukensia demissa, as part
of Dr. Jost's research. |
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Phil
Ross is sieving sediment in an estuary
in New Zealand to look for juvenile cockles. He is studying population
connectivity of New Zealand cockles for his Ph.D. research. |
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Allison Smith is
measuring the slope of a Robomussel in California using a Brunton.
Slope is one of the factors that determines the
amount of direct solar radiation that reaches an organism. |
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Dr. Sylvain Pincebourde and Dr.
Richard Murphy measure chlorophyll in the rocky intertidal using a portable
field spectrometer. |
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Dr. Dan Richards,
a National Park Service scientist, is tagging intertidal abalone, Haliotis
cracherodii, on Santa Cruz Island. Populations of H. cracherodii decreased
dramatically in the 1980's on Santa Cruz Island and have not recovered. |
