MSU PEARL Oyster Hatchery

01/25/2023

Interested in oysters? Want to do research with oysters or clams? Interested in genetics or disease testing? Are you a college student? Need plans for the summer and want to get paid?!

If so, apply to our summer internship program! Students can work in the Aquaculture Lab, Ecology Lab, or the Environmental Economics Lab!

Share with any interested college students! Housing available for out of state students.

Apply here! https://www.morgan.edu/pearl/education/summer-internship-program

03/14/2022

🦪Check out the teaser for the newest video in our series From the Water to Mouthwatering- Oyster Researchers!

🦪This video features interviews with Dr. Ming Liu from Morgan State PEARL and Dr. Matthew Gray from UMCES Horn Point Lab .

🦪Watch the teaser and view the full video release on Friday for updates on the research we are doing at the PEARL! 🦪

03/09/2022

The teaser for our fourth video, conservation, is out! This video features interviews with Allison Colden from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and David Sikorski from the Coastal Conservation Association-Maryland. Please watch below and follow Patuxent Environmental and Aquatic Research Laboratory - PEARL for updates. The full video will be released on Friday at 5 pm. Stay tuned!!

03/04/2022

to last week's video discussing the of oysters in Maryland.

🦪This video features interviews with Maryland Rachel and Simon Dean of Patuxent River Seafood and Solomons Island Heritage Tours as well as Bill Sieling- Exec. Vice President of the Chesapeake Bay Seafood Industries Assoc. They share their perspectives on working in the commercial oyster industry. 🦪

Check it out below!

03/04/2022

Our third video in our oyster series "From the is now live!

🦪This video features interviews with Imani Black, Founder and CEO of Minorities In Aquaculture as well as Brian Russell, President of the Southern Maryland Shellfish Growers Association and co-owner of Shore Thing Shellfish LLC with Mandy Burch.

Make sure to follow Patuxent Environmental and Aquatic Research Laboratory - PEARL for updates on the video series! New videos released every Friday 🦪

02/14/2022

Meet our current Morgan State University PEARL Aquaculture Team! First photo from left to right: Our Facilities Manager/Oyster Farmer- Jon Farrington, our PI and Oyster Genomics Researcher- Dr. Ming Liu, and our Hatchery Manager and Extension Specialist with University of Maryland Extension and Maryland Sea Grant -Brittany Wolfe-Bryant

Second photo from left to right: our PhD Student Shivish Bhandari, our summer intern Elissa Tuten, Jon Farrington, Brittany Wolfe-Bryant and Dr. Ming Liu.

Be sure to follow this page to get updates on what we are doing in the Shellfish Research Hatchery! 🧬🔬🦪🦪🦪

02/18/2011

MSU ERC Hatchery in the Bay Journal Aquaculture Series: Part 3

Aquaculture offers watermen new lease on their traditions Aquaculture most likely future for Bay's oysters EIS math error may underestimate risk of ariakensis introduction

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