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Sara Hamilton and Julie Pringle using a seine net.

Sara Hamilton and Julie Pringle using a seine net.
Sara Hamilton and Julie Pringle using a seine net.
Sara Hamilton and Julie Pringle using a seine net.
Sara Hamilton and Julie Pringle using a seine net.
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Kleindinst, Thomas N.
Sara Hamilton and Julie Pringle using a seine net.
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06/17/2015
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Image Of the Day caption:
Summer Student Fellow Sara Hamilton (left) and Julie Pringle, a laboratory assistant in the Biology Department, use a seine net during a recent fieldtrip to Wood Neck Beach in Falmouth, Mass. The trip kicked off the start of the summer fellowship program and served as an introduction to local intertidal biodiversity for the fellows. Hamilton and Pringle are working together in Joel Llopiz's lab on a project examining the feeding dynamics of forage fish, such as herring, mackerel, and butterfish, which represent a critical but poorly understood link between plankton and top predators in the waters off the Northeast Coast.
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.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 52, No. 2, pg. 3:
River herring used to run up coastal streams in great numbers in springtime, returning from the ocean to spawn in fresh water. But their populations have plummeted. New research is focusing on critical gaps in understanding the fishes' larval stage just after they hatch. Below, summer student Sara Hamilton (left) and WHOI lab assistant Julie Pringle collect specimens.
Photo by Tom Kleindinst
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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