MERS team and collaborators
At work in the lab:
Marion Nipper (left) with graduate students Anne Evans and Thomas Wauhob extracting pore water;
Scott Carr inducing sea urchin, Arbacia punctulata, to spawn; Jim Biedenbach preparing sediments for toxicity tests
MERS team working in the lab with Spanish visitor, Jose Ignacio Lorenzo;
Jim Biedenbach and graduate student from University of Alabama, Heath Garris, collecting urchin gametes
Jim Biedenbach homogenizing sediments to be spiked; Graduate student Anne Evans doing sea urchin maintenance;
Jim Biedenbach preparing polyethylene strips for experiment with hydrophobic organic chemicals
Graduate student Rachael Nelson with Jim Biedenbach pipetting for toxicity test; Graduate student Thomas Wauhob
running sediment-water interface toxicity tests; Undergraduate research assistant Danny Whitecotton (left)
and volunteer undergraduate student Harley Simms doing sample preparations for toxicity tests
Marion Nipper spiking sediments; Marion Nipper with TAMUCC students Misti Grohmann and Daniel Whitecotton,
and Brazilian visitor Gustavo Gobato, extracting sediment pore waters.
Or in the field:
Russell Hooten sampling sediment cores in Corpus Christi Bay; Dr. Nipper collecting sediment cores among coral reefs;
and sampling intertidal mud for toxicity tests
Dr. Nipper with sediment cores from the vicinity of coral reefs; Dr. Carr with sampled pore water (in syringes) on research vessel;
Russell Hooten collecting macro-algae for zoospore germination toxicity test.
Drs. Carr and Nipper sampling pore waters on Marinduque Island, Philippines, in October 2000; Dr. Nipper (2nd from right) getting ready
for amphipod sampling with staff from Aplysia Pesquisas e Soluções Ambientais, and Aracruz Celulose, in Vitória, Brazil, in April 2004.
And at conferences:
Dr. Carr accepting the recognition of a colleague at an Annual SETAC-Europe conference, in The Netherlands, April 1997;
Jim Biedenbach presenting posters at the SETAC North America Meeting, USA, November 1997.
Dr. Nipper giving a talk at the 5th Brazilian Meeting on Ecotoxicology, October 1998; Dr. Nipper (1st from right) with her
workgroup at the SETAC Technical Workshop on Porewater Toxicity Testing, Pensacola, FL, USA, March 2000.
Dr. Carr giving a talk at the SETAC Technical Workshop on Porewater Toxicity Testing, Pensacola, FL, USA, March 2000,
and at the Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, Canada, October 2000.
Drs. Nipper and Carr with Dr. Arizzi-Novelli (center) from University of Venice, at the poster session of the SETAC Meeting,
November 2000; Dr. Carr (3rd from left in the back row) with his work group at the Contaminated Sediment Workshop,
sponsored by Environment Canada, in Montreal, Quebec, December 2006.
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