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Kristin Meyer, Megan Bouch, and Nicole Pittoors retrieve biofouling study plates.

Kristin Meyer, Megan Bouch, and Nicole Pittoors retrieve biofouling study plates.
Kristin Meyer, Megan Bouch, and Nicole Pittoors retrieve biofouling study plates.
Kristin Meyer, Megan Bouch, and Nicole Pittoors retrieve biofouling study plates.
Kristin Meyer, Megan Bouch, and Nicole Pittoors retrieve biofouling study plates.
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Kristin Meyer, Megan Bouch, and Nicole Pittoors retrieve biofouling study plates.
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08/02/2017
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Post-doctoral scholar Kirstin Meyer (left) is studying subtidal succession in fouling communities in Woods Hole, and working in the lab of Lauren Mullineaux at Redfield. Megan Bouch is a graduate of the University of Oregon and a visiting friend of Kristin's. Nicole Pittoors (right) is a WHOI guest student from Northern Michigan University.
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WHOI postdoctoral scholar Kirstin Meyer (left) collects plastic monitoring panels that have been hanging in the water off the WHOI pier, with help from guest student Nicole Pittoors (right) and WHOI visitor Megan Bouch (center). The panels are covered with tunicates, bryozoans, and other marine invertebrates that are part of the fouling community--organisms that grow in abundance on docks, ships, rocks, and other hard underwater surfaces. This spring and summer Meyer conducted experiments off the WHOI pier and in nearby Eel Pond, to understand how and why local near-shore fouling communities develop and change over time.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 53, No. 1, pg. 26:
WHOI postdoctoral scholar Kirstin Meyer, visitor Megan Bouch, and guest student Nicole Pittoors (left to right) collect plastic monitoring panels that hung in the water off the WHOI pier for two weeks at a time through the spring and summer. She hung another set of panels off the dock in nearby Eel Pond. Her goal? To compare which animals would settle and grow over time in the two locations.
Photo by Véronique LaCapra
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