Faculty members and students from The University of Alabama recently attended the 13th Biennial Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society Symposium in Portland, Oregon. The conference was held April 10-14. Matt Lodato, a Ph.D. candidate in UA’s Department of Biological Sciences, won the award for Best Student Platform Presentation. The Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society is dedicated to…
A team of 30 scientists, including a group from The University of Alabama, have returned to the waters surrounding Antarctica to better understand the biodiversity of an understudied group of marine invertebrates and how these animals are affected by climate change. The spring 2023 Icy Inverts expedition marks the second time in three years that…
Much like the South’s favorite non-native and far-reaching plant, kudzu, the Gulf of Mexico has its own invasive species. Lionfish may be beautiful, but they have been creating problems in the Gulf for more than 30 years. Native to the Indo-Pacific Ocean, lionfish found a new home in the waters around Miami in the mid-1980s.…
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