• Royce Fellowship
Mihir
Parikh

Concentration 

Biology

Award Year 

2002
Physiological Responses to Anthropogenic Hypoxia in Mytilis Edulis Beds of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island

Faculty Sponsor: Jon Witman

Investigators have found that periods of hypoxia, or critically low dissolved oxygen concentrations, coincided with catastrophic die-offs in populations of Mytilus edulis, or blue mussel, in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. Mihir quantified the tolerance of Mytilus edulis for lower dissolved oxygen and determined which physiological stresses during hypoxia lead to blue mussel mortality.

Mihir completed his M.D. at Mt Sini School of Medicine and is currently a critical care fellow at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine.