UofSC wrote a long feature article on Ana Bishop's time in the Honor's College, with a focus on her study on right whale reproduction, families and migratory behavior published in Frontiers in Marine Science. Ana is continuing her important work at Duke University in the Master's in Environmental Management program. We can't wait to see what Ana does next! My students in Biology of Marine Organisms (MSCI 311) spent 3 days in the field at Baruch Marine Field Lab. They ran a transect across the marsh from the waterline to the tree line and assessed elevation, vegetation, sediment composition and fiddler crab burrow density. They collected sediment cores and brought them back to the lab to quantify chlorophyll abundance using a fluorometer. Then they surveyed the marsh birds and did some play-back experiments using recorded marsh bird calls to find secretive species like the least bittern and the clapper rail. Everyone got super muddy and had a great time :) The British Broadcasting Channel just released a 6-episode podcast series called the "Song of the Right Whale". This is a fantastic program filled with great scientific content and information about right whale risks and conservation strategies. Rhod Sharp does a very thorough job interviewing many right whale scientists and managers to understand the current state of the population. |
AuthorErin Meyer-Gutbrod is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. Her lab researches human impacts to marine ecosysems. Archives
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