Overview
The threat of climate change and extreme disturbance events such as marine heatwaves to valuable fisheries and mariculture species urges the need for research to investigate the capacity of these species to cope with a rapidly changing environment. Members of the lab group have recently begun projects to use our usual ecophysiology, and larval ecology tools to study resilience, and vulnerability of important aquaculture species.
Adriane with baby mussel-
Mussel rope
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Xochitl with kelletia
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Kelletia in lab
Research Highlight
Research in this area is one of our newest endeavors as a lab group. Working in New Zealand in collaboration with scientists at the Cawthron Institute, Logan Kozal has been studying how paternal heat exposure affects larval development in greenshell mussels, Perna canaliculus. Xochitl Clare is working on the impacts of marine heatwaves on the whelk Kelletia, and Adriane McDonald has formed a collaboration with a mariculture operation, the Santa Barbara Mariculture Co., to study the impacts of thermal stress and pH variation on the quality of the mussels on the mussel farm.
