- 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.