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Research
"The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked. If it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that." -Douglas Adams
An attempt to use antifouling paint to exclude snails from a small plots on a rocky shore
Complex Interactions on Rocky Shores
How do species interactions change over large spatial scales, and what are the consequences?
Mussel Population Dynamics in Downeast Maine
In a region with an active commercial wild mussel fishery, where do adult mussels live, why, and how do dynamics vary spatially?
Larval Behavior in Bivalves
How, why, and to what extent do planktonic bivalve larvae move?
Population Connectivity
How are isolated populations connected by larval dispersal, and why is it important?
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