Shannon Point Marine Center Research Intern

For the past two quarters, I have worked with Professor Morgan Eisenlord on two experiments involving eelgrass wasting disease. In both experiments, samples were collected from Padilla Bay. One, which dates back to the Summer of 2023, analyzes how the protist Labyrinthula zostera (which causes eelgrass wasting disease) presents itself in eelgrass when compared to algae. Another, primarily worked on by two students at the Shannon Point Marine Center during the Summer of 2024, analyzed differences in eelgrass wasting disease between two different species of eelgrass in Padilla Bay: Zostera marina and Zostera Japonica.