Posts Tagged ‘oysters’
Jamestown oysters record massive drought
UC DAVIS (US)—Oyster shells dumped in a well four centuries ago are shedding new light on the crippling drought that nearly wiped out the English settlement at Jamestown, Va., in its early years. Continue…
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 16:12 - 0 Comments
Earth & Environment - Apr 21, 2010 19:57 - 1 Comment
Buried shells are no ecological treasure
RICE (US)—Fan-Wei Zeng saw seashells, but not by the seashore. In fact, they were quite far away, and they were skewing the Rice University graduate student’s study of the environmental impact of Houston’s rivers. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Mar 25, 2010 11:11 - 0 Comments
Tax loophole for ‘well-tuned’ oysters
USC (US)—In physical, as in financial growth, it’s not what you make but what you keep that counts. That’s true of oysters and other slow-growing animals that appear to waste energy in two specific ways: They make too much of some protein building blocks and expend energy disposing of the excess. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jun 4, 2009 13:53 - 0 Comments
Farming the sea to feed the world
An open-air “nursery” outside the main Wrigley Institute research building is where USC professor Dennis Hedgecock grows the oysters he breeds and crosses in a lab inside. Seawater is pumped into bins, which hold oyster seeds that are about the size of a shirt button. Hedgecock compares a meaty hybrid oyster at right with an inbred oyster of the same age. (Credit: Philip Channing/University of Southern California)
