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This past Sunday, our lab once again went to the Pamlico and Neuse Rivers to do our zombie crab / goby sampling! At Goose Creek Park in the Pamlico, we received assistance from citizen scientists, including some new trainees (future marine biologists??). :) Thank you so much to Heather Deck (Executive Director, Sound Rivers, http://soundrivers.org/) for many of the images above and for helping us build our citizen science network!
You can probably see from these images what we mean by "high waters". Offshore winds and the recent tropical storm pushed in a lot of water (increasing the salinity quite a bit as well) into the rivers and so our sampling was a bit challenging at times (the "shallow" subtidal was not quite so shallow this past weekend). Interestingly, we also found zombie crabs in places we typically do not see them, presumably due to the higher salinities in these locations! Comments are closed.
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