April 20, 2020 – Why Long Island scallops are dying?

Sivanna Trainer, Stony Brook University. Come join us to learn about the wonders of shellfish disease, especially the parasite impacting our scallops on Long Island. The Marine Animal Disease Lab at Stony Brook has been working diligently to learn about this parasite and how it impacts scallop health with changing environmental conditions. Take a look through the microscope or mix/match scallop shells and learn something new!

 

Photo credit: E. Pales Espinosa

 

Sivanna is finishing her Master degree at SoMAS, Stony Brook, NY. She comes to the  Marine Animal Disease Laboratory after gaining her B.A. in Marine Ecology at the University of San Diego. Sivanna has done field research monitoring species in a San Diego coastal estuary and lab work sorting and identifying invertebrates that lived within an invasive species of bryozoan. Her MADL research evaluates the effect of environmental drivers associated with climate changes on host-parasite interactions in the northern bay scallop (Argopecten irradians irradians).