Baby lobsters may be adaptable to changes in Gulf of Maine, study shows
A team examined how post-larval lobsters genes react to the effects of ocean warming, acidification and the combination of both.
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Baby lobsters may be more adaptable to rapidly changing ocean conditions than previously thought, according to results of a new study conducted in Maine.
A juvenile lobster is shown in Harpswell in 2015. A research team has examined how post-larval lobsters genes reacted to the effects of ocean warming, acidification and the combination of both.
Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer
Researchers from the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole, the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay and the Maine Department of Marine Resources in West Boothbay Harbor teamed up to examine the effects of ocean warming and acidification on gene expression in the earliest life stages of the American lobster.
Matt Norwood, Darling Marine Center Thu, 01/21/2021 - 7:00am
Dr. Gregory Gerbi, assistant professor of oceanography. Courtesy photo
The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole recently welcomed Dr. Gregory Gerbi, assistant professor of oceanography, to UMaine’s School of Marine Sciences.
Gerbi comes to UMaine after nine years at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York where he was an associate professor of physics and geosciences. Prior to his time as a faculty member at Skidmore College, Gerbi was a postdoctoral scholar at both Rutgers University and UMaine after receiving a Ph.D. from the Joint Program in Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.