[SEMCO] "Science Made Public" Lecture: Sea Squirts

[Stephanie Murphy]

"Invasion of the Sea Squirts"
Mary Carman, WHOI Researcher
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 
2:30 PM to 3:30 PM EDT
WHOI Exhibit Center Auditorium
15 School Street, Woods Hole
(508) 289-2663


Invasion of the Sea Squirts
It has no known predators and its origins are unknown. It grows in colonies, filtering phytoplankton and algae from the water, and attaches to rocks, shellfish, and many other hard surfaces in the marine environment. The invasive sea squirt, a species of Didemnum, is rapidly spreading through marine areas in both hemispheres, including 750 km (more than 460 miles) of the New England shoreline over the last 15 years. Learn about the environmental problems this invasive species might pose and what scientists are doing about it.

Science Made Public is a summer lecture series conducted at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Exhibit Center. For more information on the lecture series, see http://www.whoi.edu/sbl/liteSite.do?litesiteid=3571&articleId=14227. 

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