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The Hare Lab is continuing to measure the timing and distribution of recruitment (juvenile settlement) of wild oysters in the Hudson River with collaborators like the Bioboat (Bill Livingston & Stephen Fleming), Yonkers Science Barge (Groundwork Hudson Valley) and the Billion Oyster Project. This summer we begin an exciting study with The River Project at Hudson River Park, testing hypotheses about why some piers in the park have eight times more oysters on their pilings than found by divers at other piers. Thanks to the New York State Water Resources Institute for funding.

Check out the oyster filtration and larval dispersal models resulting from a NY Sea Grant funded project with Hare Lab, Billion Oyster Project, Sean Kramer, Matt Gray and Damian Brady. Good educational materials also at https://oysterecosystemmodels.com/

Way to go Avi! Nice job with your honors thesis using RNAseq to analyze gene expression in juvenile oysters from different salinity source environments and under different salinity treatments. Good luck with your next steps!

Yuqing joined us first from Bejing (remote), and arrived in Ithaca Fall 2021 to pursue her PhD.

Congratulations on your PhD Alyssa! Two chapters are published and the third will follow soon, sharing your eDNA and hellbender immunization insights! Good luck with your Cornell Wildlife Health Lab postdoc.

Congratulations Kaili! Your honors thesis using histology to analyze oyster spawning phenology in the Hudson River Estuary is a winner. Good luck in graduate school!

Honggang is joining us to work on the NSF within-generation selection project, fresh from his PhD at Univ. Alabama.

We are excited to be working with the eastern oyster breeders consortium on a new project funded by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. The Hare Lab will be investigating genomic signatures of domestication selection in eastern oysters.

Hannah joins the Hare Lab as a MS student in Natural Resources. She finished her studies at UC Boulder in evolutionary biology and astrophysics and joined us in June for a summer full of oyster research field work.

Kira is part of a cohort of postdocs who joined Cornell departments in 2019 to work with faculty on building more active learning pedagogy into existing and new courses. Dr. Hare will work with Kira to develop teaching modules on critical thinking, project management and team dynamics for use in capstone courses for the Environment and Sustainability major. A major emphasis also will be on developing assessments for these learning outcomes.