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Ellie Bors (center) showing undergrads how to use a seine net for sampling.

Ellie Bors (center) showing undergrads how to use a seine net for sampling.
Ellie Bors (center) showing undergrads how to use a seine net for sampling.
Ellie Bors (center) showing undergrads how to use a seine net for sampling.
Ellie Bors (center) showing undergrads how to use a seine net for sampling.
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Kleindinst, Thomas N.
Ellie Bors (center) showing undergrads how to use a seine net for sampling.
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06/17/2015
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Stace Beaulieu and Annette Govindarajan led a group of undergraduate Summer Student Fellows and guest students on a tour of beach ecology during a recent field trip to Wood Neck Beach in Falmouth. The goal of the one-hour trek was to introduce young students to local intertidal biodiversity.
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WHOI Summer Student Fellow, Sara Hamilton, MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Ellie Bors, and WHOI lab assistant Julie Pringle (left to right) collect river herring specimens in a local creek. The fish swim from the ocean up coastal streams to spawn in fresh water each spring. In recent years, however, their populations have plummeted. WHOI biologist Joel Llopiz investigates the factors that affect the growth and survival of herring larvae, about which surprisingly little is known. In particular, he studies otoliths, tiny calcium carbonate deposits in fish heads that add a new growth ring each day, so scientists use them to study how fish develop.
Photo by Tom Kleindinst
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