Wednesday 21 September 2016 at 3:00pm

Title: “Understanding blue crab in a changing world”

Speaker:
Dr. Tom Miller, Director, UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

Abstract:
The blue crab plays an important role in estuarine and coastal ecosystems from Maine to Argentina, often also supporting important fisheries in these ecosystems too. Yet these ecosystems are becoming warmer and acidifying. How will blue crab respond? Here I present empirical and modeling studies that show the impacts over warming and acidification on growth, carapace structure, respiration, overwintering, reproductive output and the crabs ability to sustain fisheries.

Host: Dr. Sook Chung, Ph.D.