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R/BT-02
Marine biotechnology, biosafety, and industry
Principal Investigator:
Raymond A. ZilinskasStart/End Year:
1994 - 1997Institution:
Center for Public Issues in Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology InstituteCo-Principal Investigator:
Morris A. Levin, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Center for Public Issues in Biotechology; Douglas Lipton, University of Maryland, College ParkTopic(s):
- Seafood Technology
Description:
The objectives of this project are to develop scientifically-based risk assessment methods applicable to the testing of transgenic marine organisms in the open marine environment, appraise the need to adopt new or improved regulations based on new risk assessment methods, and estimate the costs that research institutions and industry will have to bear to meet these new or improved regulations.
Funding Start Year
1994
Funding End Year
1997
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
