Grad Student Works with High Schoolers on Green Crab Study, Penobscot Bay Pilot Reports
The Penobscot Bay Pilot reported students from six coastal and island high schools gathered on Hurricane Island in Penobscot Bay for the second year of the Eastern Maine Skippers Program and its collaborative, yearlong project addressing the question, “How can the impact of the green crab population be controlled in a way that conserves the marine ecosystem and encourages new industry?” Before beginning fieldwork, students worked with researchers including Noah Oppenheim, a graduate student in the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, according to the article. Oppenheim helped teach the students different sampling techniques that could be used in assessing green crab abundance in the intertidal zone, the article states.