Hints from the fossil record on how to re-oyster the Chesapeake
Rowan Lockwood is extracting pearls of data from long-dead oysters.
Rowan Lockwood is extracting pearls of data from long-dead oysters.
Environment
Feb 20, 2017
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By area, tidal flats make up more than 50 percent of Willapa Bay in southwest Washington state, making this more than 142-square-mile estuary an ideal location for oyster farming. On some parts of these flats, oysters grow ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2019
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The collapse began rather unspectacularly. In 2005, when most of the millions of Pacific oysters in this tree-lined estuary failed to reproduce, Washington's shellfish growers largely shrugged it off.
Environment
Jun 21, 2009
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(Phys.org) —Oregon State University has improved an old method of making oysters safer to eat so that more bacteria are removed without sacrificing taste and texture.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 8, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Fergus Ewing, Scotland's energy minister, has announced plans for the deployment of 40 to 50 Oyster hydro-electric wave devices off the country's northwestern shore. The new facility will be capable of producing ...
Why exactly do little white nuggets from the sea cost so much? And how have humans hacked the biological process that makes them?
Environment
Jun 12, 2018
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A study of oyster reefs in a once-pristine California coastal estuary found them devastated by invasive Atlantic Coast crabs and snails, providing new evidence of the consequences when human activities move species beyond ...
Ecology
Jul 17, 2009
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Native Olympia oysters, which once thrived along the Pacific Northwest coast until over-harvesting and habitat loss all but wiped them out, have a built-in resistance to ocean acidification during a key shell-building phase ...
Environment
Jun 10, 2016
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A new paper in Scientific Reports led by researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science challenges increased salinity and seawater temperatures as the established explanation for a decades-long increase ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 18, 2021
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The breakdown of the seasonality pattern marked a period of dramatic climate change 1612 million years ago. This is the finding of an analysis of fossil oyster shells from the area around Vienna. The growth in calcium ...
Archaeology
Apr 18, 2011
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