Reblog: Crab Wars
Dr Sarah Oktay of our UMass Boston Field Station on Nantucket and I wrote an article for Yesterday's Island, a Nantucket newspaper, that was published last week. Enjoy!
How important are cross ecosystem interactions in a marsh?
Because of their location on the border of terrestrial and marine ecosystems, marshes act as sponges for runoff, are a factory that churns out millions of juvenile fish, crabs and…
Purple Marsh Crab Grazing…during the day…at high tide!
Well I have never seen this before... This video features the purple marsh crab, Sesarma reticulatum. This crab is a well known marsh herbivore (actually omnivore!) that feeds on aboveground…
Workin on my night marsh
Look who I found eating some grass out at Folgers Marsh outside UMass Boston's Field Station on Nantucket! Thats right, your friendly neighborhood purple marsh crab. Some…
The Frozen Marsh: a story about insulation
All of New England is covered in a thick layer of ice and snow at the moment. And that makes it a perfect time to see what is going on…
Changes in Latitude, Changes in Snow Marsh Attitude
The pictures we posted of Squantum Marsh (and more on that soon) were pretty dramatic. But it is not that way everywhere. Down further south, in Nantucket, while snows have…
The Marsh in Winter
Well, now that we've had the Snowpocalypse here in Boston, this is Squantum marshes - BEFORE last weekend's extra 8". What is going on under all of that snow and ice?…
Amazing frozen marsh north if Akkeshi. #marshlife
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High tide marsh life
If you live anywhere near the coast you may have noticed that this most recent full moon has yielded some very high tides. In fact, Morrissey Boulevard, where UMass Boston…
The best way to sieve mud cores #marshlife
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