Ame Teaderman (UR) - Crab-tastic News!

Hello readers!

Diving right into the details, I'll be collaborating with Holly-Noel, another researcher who runs a blog here for this class. Since our topics align with crab capturing and invasive species, we'll be working together to create a project with a larger pool of data, which means we'll have more locations and more information to work with!

Party Crab!

In addition to this, I'd also like to give a huge shout out to Dr. Crowley! She has sent an incredible amount of information about blue crabs my way, from field data sheets and lab manual diagrams for reference, to a whopping three hundred and thirteen page document about blue crabs in the Gulf of Mexico! Needless to say, this has immensely helped me with my crab research by giving me a better idea of what data I should collect while catching crabs, how to identify the anatomy and health of blue crabs, how to identify and estimate when blue crabs are molting, and what environments I can expect to find these crabs. All in all, I'd like to thank her for the huge help, and I plan to use this data with other research to put together methods and materials next week!

References:
heytvm. (n.d.). Party Crab GIF. Tenor. https://tenor.com/view/party-crab-happy-crab-crab-dancing-hey-tvm-gif-13915961.