Fisheries research team leads regional project on potentially toxic algal blooms

by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 13, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences

by MARY CATHERINE GASTON The first time Alan Wilson looked through a microscope at a drop of pond water, he was fascinated by all the things moving around in it. Still, he never imagined that one day he would make a living researching those microscopic organisms as an...

AAES scientist looks to loblolly pines as future renewable fuel source

by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 11, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering

by MARY CATHERINE GASTON In a nondescript building on the Auburn University campus, an Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researcher is transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary in a study that could have huge implications here at home and around the...

NOAA grant to fund Srivastava's groundwater study

by William Cahalin | Jun 18, 2013 | Biosystems Engineering

AUBURN, Ala.—Puneet Srivastava, a biosystems engineering associate professor and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researcher at Auburn University, has been awarded a highly competitive, $285,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to...

Study investigates chemical’s effects on mussel populations

by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 29, 2013 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences

by JAMIE CREAMER Alabama is home to the most diverse freshwater mussel population in all of North America, with 180 known species dwelling or having once dwelled in the state’s rivers and streams. But in recent decades, their numbers have plummeted as a result of...

Survey of coastal seafood, restaurant industries under way

by William Cahalin | Jun 25, 2012 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology

AUBURN, Ala. — Seafood fishers, processors and wholesalers as well as seafood restaurant chefs and owners are the focus of a survey under way along the Alabama-Mississippi Gulf Coast aimed at evaluating how those involved in the seafood supply chain are faring after...

Auburn scientists find tar balls are better left alone

by William Cahalin | Feb 15, 2012 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences

AUBURN, Ala.—The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the waves of tar balls deposited on the beaches shortly thereafter prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to produce a tar ball fact sheet. Among the factoids was...