{"id":66135,"date":"2008-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-assesses-marine-invasive-species-in-narragansett-bay\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-assesses-marine-invasive-species-in-narragansett-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/01\/uri-student-assesses-marine-invasive-species-in-narragansett-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student assesses marine invasive species in Narragansett Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tWinthrop, Mass. resident\u2019s next step is medical school<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 January 9, 2008 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 senior Rebecca Allen spent much of the last six months gazing beneath marina docks at the scrambled mass of marine life hanging on their support structures.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Winthrop, Mass. resident\u2019s research project, in collaboration with the Providence-based environmental group Save the Bay, was aimed at determining the variety and abundance of invasive species that have moved into Narragansett Bay.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOur objective was to see what new and potentially harmful species might be showing up in the Bay,\u201d Allen explained. \u201cThese non-native species could be taking over the habitats of native species and offsetting the natural balance in the Bay. The project was the first step in determining what is here and where they are coming from so we can eventually do something about them.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tMost marine invasive species arrive in the ballast water of ships, which may take on ballast water in one part of the world and discharge it in another.<\/p>\n

Allen and fellow student researcher Michele Labas, under the supervision of 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate student Marci Cole, made multiple visits to 11 marina docks at scattered locations throughout Narragansett Bay as a follow-up to a Rapid Assessment Survey conducted at the same locations in 2000. While they didn\u2019t find any previously undocumented invasive species on the docks, they did identify five non-native species, including an abundant brown algae, three types of tunicates \u2013 primitive marine organisms with saclike bodies enclosed in tough outer coverings — and an anemone.<\/p>\n


\n\tOne goal of the project was to determine if marina owners or other local residents could serve as monitors of marine invasive species in the Bay.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI hadn\u2019t taken any marine biology courses before, so in the beginning we had to look everything up in books or bring samples in baggies to be identified by Save the Bay staff,\u201d said Allen, who graduated from Savio Prep School in East Boston in 2004. \u201cBut by the end, we knew all the scientific names and could identify everything pretty quickly. It showed that local residents could really do it.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWhile conducting her invasive species research, Allen was also studying the suction and bite processing of spiny dogfish, a small species of shark. Both research projects were undertaken as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Coastal Fellows program, a unique initiative designed to involve undergraduate students in addressing current environmental problems. Now in its 13th year, the program based in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of the Environment and Life Sciences teams students with faculty, research staff and graduate students to help them gain skills that will ensure their future success.<\/p>\n


\n\tAs much as Allen enjoyed her environmental research this year, she will soon embark on a very different career path \u2013 medicine. She will begin preparing her medical school applications this winter, and she is deciding between schools in Massachusetts, California and Hawaii.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to be a pediatrician,\u201d Allen said. \u201cAnd when I volunteered at Hasbro Children\u2019s Hospital my sophomore year, I absolutely loved it. I can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winthrop, Mass. resident\u2019s next step is medical school KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 January 9, 2008 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 senior Rebecca Allen spent much of the last six months gazing beneath marina docks at the scrambled mass of marine life hanging on their support structures. The Winthrop, Mass. resident\u2019s research project, in collaboration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}