The Gulf Specimen Marine Lab in Panacea will hold a class on Friday
to teach people how to collect data on horseshoe crab populations and nesting
behavior.
Participants will
learn how to conduct surveys, collect scientific information, and tag horseshoe
crabs for a nationwide mark recapture study.
The citizen science
training event this Friday, September 9th at the Anne Rudloe Education Center
from 9:30AM-1:30PM.
If you are
interested, you have to register for the event – we have posted the link on this
story on the Oyster Radio Facebook page and at Oysterradio.com.
Horseshoe crabs are an important part of the marine ecosystem;
they have been around for nearly 450 million years.
Their eggs are a food source for animals and birds.
Horseshoe crabs have also proved valuable to human medicine.
Pharmaceutical companies use horseshoe crab blood to ensure
intravenous drugs and vaccine injections are bacteria-free and sterile.
Scientists are also using horseshoe crabs in cancer research.
https://tinyurl.com/FHCWTrainingFranklin
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