The Crepidula carryover paper
It's always exciting to see my scientific work in print. Today, my first paper of the year was published, about the experiment I did with Crepidula fornicata last summer. I studied how conditions experienced by mothers during brooding affected the larvae, and I found that mothers kept at cooler spring temperatures released larvae that took longer to develop to competency. Essentially, that means that larvae released earlier in the year will be in the water column for longer and could disperse to habitats farther away. This study contributes to our understanding of variation in the larval phase and could help refine future predictions of dispersal.
You can read all about it in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series:
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