Members of the Crab Lab presented their research at a national conference, the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, SICB, in Phoenix, AZ. Dr. Markus Frederich, Professor of Marine Sciences, and Aubrey Jane, MS student Marine Science, presented the poster “Defining thermal tolerances of lab-reared and wild caught Homarus americanus post larvae”. This work is part on a collaborative project with Bigelow Laboratory, Hood College, and Maine DMR, and is funded through a research grant from the National Science Foundation.
Emily Pierce, PhD student Marine Sciences, presented her poster on “Environmental DNA to Detect Invasive Invertebrates; Case Study in a Tide Pool”. This project develops and applies molecular tools to monitor invasive species and is funded through the Maine eDNA EPSCoR grant from the National Science Foundation.
Benjamin Rico presented his poster “Thermal thresholds: which one describes heat tolerance best? A case study in an invasive crab”. This work is the result of a CAS SURE summer project and was partially funded through an NSF grant.