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How Do Oysters Find a Home?

2016 Summer Student Fellow Erin Houlihan prepares to take a calibration image with a camera that is part of a system for tracking movement of oyster larvae. Houlihan is studying how larval oysters respond to environmental settlement cues in WHOI Scientist Lauren Mullineaux’s lab. The imagery captured will provide data for the overall research into oysters’ larval dispersal, population connectivity and their community resilience, important factors both ecologically and economically. (Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)