MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Fabián Tapia (left) and WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar Claudio DiBacco use fine nets to sample patches of cyprid barnacle larvae (photo below) floating in Narragansett Bay, R.I. Larvae ride internal bores—wave fronts beneath the surface of the ocean—toward the shore when they are mature enough to settle on rocks and coastal structures. (Jesús Pineda, WHOI.)[back]
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