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Derek Aday Chosen to Lead W&M s Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Dean and director: Derek Aday is head of the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University, university director of the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, a fellow of the American Fisheries Society, and editor-in-chief of the society’s flagship journal. (Courtesy photo) GLOUCESTER  William & Mary (W&M) has named nationally renowned ecologist Derek Aday as its next dean of the School of Marine Science and director of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). Aday, who will begin in this role at VIMS Sept. 1, is head of the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University, university director of the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, a fellow of the American Fisheries Society, and editor-in-chief of the society’s flagship journal. His selection follows a national search to succeed John Wells, who is retiring after 17 years at the VIMS helm.

Wild Oysters Overcoming 35-Year Struggle with Deadly Parasite

Pamela D’Angelo reports. It began with old preserved samples of a parasite called perkinsus. First recorded here in 1949, it causes a disease known as Dermo, which slows the ability of oysters to reproduce and can be fatal. But during the mid-1980s Dermo exploded, killing about 70% of wild oysters for decades. Virginia Institute of Marine Science scientists Ryan Carnegie and Lúcia Safi harvest oysters for research. Credit Paul Richardson of VIMS “This archive of many, many years of glass microscope slides of oysters that were infected with perkinsus that we could evaluate to try to reconstruct this story of what happened with the parasite and its changes,” says Ryan Carnegie is a research professor at the Institute of Marine Science.

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