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- Research published in Nature Communications by Ph.D. student Mary Bryan Barksdale shows coastal landscapes are at risk of a diminished, fleeting blue carbon stock.
  
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- Lifetimes dedicated to environmental science inspired Fu-Lin Chu Ph.D. '82, P '97, P '12 and William Chu P '97, P '12 to create a fellowship for graduate students in the School of Marine Science.
  
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Molting crabs

by Camille Phillips | May 22, 2017

Today I learned that crabs grow by molting until they mature and are A pair of blue crabs mating. © VIMS. ready to mate.

I also learned that mated female crabs move down the Chesapeake Bay toward higher salinity waters near the ocean.