BALTIMORE – Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology IMET wants to help people learn more about Chesapeake Bay oyster and clam research.
Researchers tell WJZ that our interactions with oysters and clams can affect the overall health of the bay, and they want to know more.
There are ways to join this conversation and have your questions answered. IMET scientists, educators, and researchers open their doors to a lecture series.
Their goal is to share the research they’re doing and answer questions people have about oysters and the bay’s effects on them.
Alison Tracey will lead the lecture.
“Chesapeake Bay oysters face many challenges,” she says. “While they are at historic lows, the work currently being done on the aquaculture and wild fisheries recovery fronts really promises to bring populations back in ways that are important to human ecosystems. ”
Conversations range from how to recycle oyster shells to how they impact the overall health of the bay, she said.
Tracy is an assistant professor associated with IMET IMET, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
She studies interactions between oysters and clams and the microorganisms that affect them.
“Ultimately, what we want to do is talk about those harmful and beneficial relationships, not just disease, but just like we have beneficial bacteria in our guts, oysters and clams.” “It’s about being able to learn more that we have microbiomes in the human body, and we’re creating these microbiome-like things,” Tracy said. “So we want to know how the relationship with microorganisms affects the ability of oysters and clams to respond to environmental stress.”
Tracy told WJZ that many things we do impact the bay, and even something as small as an oyster impacts our entire ecosystem, including the seafood that ends up on our plates. He said it was possible.
The lecture will be held on Thursday, February 22nd at 6:00 pm in the second floor auditorium of IMET.
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