Marissa McMahan

Marissa McMahan

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Published on Oct 28, 2015

Check out black sea bass in the news!

Black sea bass are currently featured in a six-part series runningin the Portland Press Herald. The series was written by Colin Woodard andfocuses on the impacts of warming water in...

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Published on Aug 06, 2015

Live black sea bass collection!

It was a successful trip collecting live black sea bass in Boston Harbor. A huge thanks to fisherman Kevin Cheung for providing a fishing vessel and his local sea bass expertise! We managed to c...

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Published on Jul 13, 2015

Collecting research participants!

Fourth of July weekend included a quick trip to Beals Island, Maine to collect some tiny research participants! These juvenile lobsters will be used in predator-prey behavioral expe...

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Published on May 20, 2015

Field Season Update

Dear Experiment Backers,Field season is once again upon us, and I wanted to give you all an overview of what I'll be up to in the coming months. This field season will be particularly busy because ...

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Published on Apr 15, 2015

Spring update: Stable Isotope Analysis 101

After collecting black sea bass samples, I bring them to the lab for processing. One of the things I will eventually be doing with these samples is called stable isotope analysis. T...

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Published on Mar 17, 2015

That's one hungry sea bass!

Diet Update:A few weeks ago I was dissecting some frozen sea bass samples left over from last summer, and to my surprise, I found a sea bass that had a crab stuck in its mouth! Appa...

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Published on Feb 03, 2015

Video of black sea bass dissection in one minute!

Hi all!Check out this video (link below) of me performing a sea bass dissection in just one minute! Huge thanks to Andrew and Oscar at Experiment for shooting and editing the video!...

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Published on Dec 03, 2014

It's the final countdown!

Hi everyone!We're down to just 2 days left in what has been a whirlwind 35-day campaign. Once again, I am eternally grateful to all of my wonderful backers. To those of you who have...

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Published on Nov 29, 2014

Added bonus for backers!

This campaign is quickly coming to a close. Only 6 days left! Thanks to all of the generous people who have supported this project, Ihave reached my first goal. However, I still have a long way to ...

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