Shellfish

Aquaculture Site Prospecting: Using Ocean Observing, Remote Sensing, and Numerical Models to Inform Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Expansion

May 22, 2019

Damian Brady, University of Maine Sponsored by: Biology Department

Microplastics in the Ocean – Separating Fact from Fiction

March 19, 2019

WHOI scientists weigh in on the state of marine microplastics science.

New Techniques Open Window into Anatomy of Mollusks

March 5, 2019

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists are using advanced medical imaging techniques and diagnostic tools to reveal the internal structures…

February 6, 2019

An aquatic animal, such as a mollusk or crustacean, that has a shell or shell-like exoskeleton.

Vibrio parahaemolyticus

(Adapted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Vibrio parahaemolyticus (V. parahaemolyticus or Vibrio p.) is a bacterium in…

Do Microplastics in the Ocean Affect Scallops?

January 24, 2019

WHOI scientist Scott Gallager is making field observations and conducting lab experiments to explore the possible effects of microplastics in the ocean on marine organisms.

Junk Food

December 17, 2018

An estimated eight million tons of plastics enter our oceans each year, yet only one percent can be seen floating…

Feeling the Heat in the NW Atlantic

January 22, 2018

Rising temperatures along the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean will force American lobsters (H. americanus) farther offshore and into more northern waters, according to a new study led by researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).