Scientists find lamprey a 'living fossil'
...Priscomyzon riniensis, 18 months ago in an ancient estuary in Grahamstown, South Africa. Preserved showing the underside, the fossil measures less than 2 inches long and reveals a set of 14 teeth surrounding the mouth that is proportionately larger than its descendents today. "The most striking feature of P...Research partnership to protect the Coorong
... the first comprehensive research program for this estuary and will be one of the largest of its kind in Australia, especially for the ecology of estuarine fish and waterbirds," said Dr. Sebastien Lamontagne, research leader, CSIRO. The field component of the research program will study in detail the ecolo...Stevens and Monmouth Presidents to co-chair ASBPA National Scientific Shore and Beach Conference
...ns throughout the New York Harbor and Hudson River estuary regions, with data and analysis provided in real-time via the Internet, to facilitate efforts to preserve and protect the region's coasts and waterways." Monmouth University recently created the Urban Coast Institute headed by Tony MacDonald to study...How healthy is that marsh? Biologists count parasites
...uary, we know it is in good shape. For example, an estuary with high infection rates tells you that it is visited by many birds, and many types of birds." The goal of the Sea Grant project is to establish a baseline snail-trematode count in marshes, particularly those slated for restoration. By comparing wo...UNH researcher restoring oyster reefs to Great Bay
...the oyster population in New Hampshire's Great Bay estuary has plummeted by 90 percent, due to the 1995 arriv...e best results. Oyster harvesting in the Great Bay estuary system ( http://www.oysters.unh.edu/Graphics/great-bay-map.gif ) the only oyster habitat in New Ham...'Dead zone' summer killed billions of ocean state mussels
... of healthy, densely packed mussels blanketing the estuary floor. "What we saw was a local extinction," said Andrew Altieri, a new Ph.D. graduate from Brown University's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. "The mussel population was devastated. If the magnitude of this die-off was visible from th...Florida Tech to host 25th Anniversary Indian River Lagoon Symposium
... and programs underway to protect and restore this estuary of national significance....The rising tide of ocean plagues: How humans are changing the dynamics of disease
...ary, we know it's in good shape. For example, an estuary with high infection rates tells you that it is visited by many birds, and many types of birds," explains Lafferty. If habitat loss, fishing, hunting, or pollution degrades the system, scientists will see a decline in parasite populations. In the en...Stevens professor to speak during Princeton lecture series
...eloping a network of operational coastal ocean and estuary sensors that provide real-time observations of wea...ems, coastal ocean dynamics, maritime security and estuary and ocean water quality. He is the author of more than 80 technical publications in various aspects ...Pitt professor's article considers nature as a service provider
... case of the Plum Island ecosystem, located in the estuary and watersheds of Plum Island Sound off the Massachusetts coast, that meant reducing estuarine eutrophication and increasing the maintenance of wetlands while providing adequate water supplies for a growing human population. The researchers then com...WHSRN announces three new international sites
...he new sites are: Rio Gallegos, Argentina--a large estuary with mud flats and marshes on the Rio Gallegos, ow...ea the size of Texas and California combined. The estuary at the mouth of the river attracts a number of North American species including the Red Knot and a l...Groundwater sampling goes tubular
...ricultural areas, river bottom subsurface habitat, estuary health, CERCLA site remedial investigations and EPA total maximum daily load of groundwater influx to streams and lakes, Peterson said. Installations also can be adapted to incorporate in situ instrumentation for continuous monitoring of conditions....Bird Society to meet at UC Santa Barbara, focus on ivory-billed woodpecker and California condor
... field trips. Beaches, upland habitats and a large estuary are part of or immediately adjacent to campus and avian diversity is thought to be higher at UCSB than at any other university in the U.S. or Canada. Three bird species listed as endangered breed on or adjacent to campus lands. They are Belding's sav...Ferry-linked water monitoring system becomes new model for United States
...nd, has "held the distinction of being the largest estuary in the United States about which least is known," ...lls and low oxygen, may happen at sites across the estuary that may not be covered by routine monitoring at restricted locations. Trying to establish cause and...Mutation in clams protects against paralytic shellfish poisoning but raises human health risk
...the Bay of Fundy and the other in the Lawrencetown estuary in Nova Scotia -- to saxitoxin as well as tetrodotoxin, a powerful toxin derived from the puffer fish. The lead author is V. Monica Bricelj of the Institute for Marine Biosciences in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in addition to Connell, co-authors are K...