In a monster sampling effort this fall, Kirk and Kylie completed the first study of blue crab recruitment in the ACE Basin. They made 11 round trips to the coast and spent 22 days on the water.
Kylie then processed 480 jars of plankton spending over three weeks straight at the dissecting scope.
But the effort paid off by documenting the arrival of first stage juvenile crabs.
And the arrival of megalopae. The results of this recruitment study will be Kylie's project for the 2011 Benthic Ecology Meeting.
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