ACONS WEBINAR
Crabby Waters: The Green Crab in Nantucket Sound & Beyond
Thursday, January 22 at 6pm
Click here to register for free; hosted on Zoom.
Ring in the new year on a not-so-crabby note with an ACONS (A Celebration of Nantucket Sound) educational webinar! Marine biologist Carolyn Tepolt of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will guide us through the story of the green crab invasion on the East Coast, including its growing presence in Nantucket Sound and areas south of Cape Cod.
Carolyn will share insight from her lab’s cutting-edge research into the genetics and temperature tolerance of these crabs—two key reasons why they’ve been so successful in new environments. She’ll also offer a compelling comparison to her fieldwork on the West Coast, where the green crab’s arrival is more recent and research and management efforts are rapidly evolving.
A Q&A session with Carolyn, moderated by Alliance president and CEO Audra Parker, will follow the presentation.
Carolyn Tepolt was born and raised in southern New Hampshire and became fascinated by coastal marine species while exploring the shores of New England growing up. She joined the WHOI Biology department in March of 2017, after postdoctoral research in biodiversity genomics at the Smithsonian Institution. In 2014, she received a PhD from Stanford, where she studied at the Hopkins Marine Station on Monterey Bay. Her research program is focused on understanding how marine species adapt to changing environments on time scales of decades to centuries. She works extensively with marine invasive species, and integrates approaches from genomics, ecology, and physiology.
