{"id":29449,"date":"2019-12-20T10:08:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=29449"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:08:34","slug":"fulweiler-and-ray-publish-paper-comparing-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-native-and-non-native-oysters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2019\/12\/20\/fulweiler-and-ray-publish-paper-comparing-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-native-and-non-native-oysters\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulweiler and Ray Publish Paper Comparing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Native and Non-Native Oysters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2018\/09\/Fulweiler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2018\/09\/Fulweiler.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2018\/09\/Fulweiler-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2018\/09\/Fulweiler-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2019\/04\/Ray.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2019\/04\/Ray.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2019\/04\/Ray-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2019\/04\/Ray-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2019\/04\/Ray-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>Pardee Center\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/pardee-fellows\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty Research Fellow<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/robinson-w-wally-fulweiler\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prof. Robinson W. (Wally) Fulweiler<\/a>\u00a0and 2019 Graduate Summer Fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/2019-pardee-center-graduate-summer-fellows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Ray<\/a> recently published a paper\u00a0titled &#8220;Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Native and Non-native Oysters&#8221; in the journal <em>Frontiers in Environmental Science.\u00a0<\/em>The paper&#8217;s lead author was Gretchen McCarthy of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fulweilerlab.com\/team.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fulweiler Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of non-native species of oysters is commonly associated with a wide range of ecosystem changes, such as habitat destruction, competition with native species, and biodiversity loss, but the role these species play in biogeochemical processes like changes in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is not well understood.\u00a0In the paper, the authors compared GHG emissions from native and non-native oysters using laboratory incubations. They observed strong seasonal GHG fluxes, with the native species producing about twice as much nitrous oxide and 20 times as much methane as the non-native species.<\/p>\n<p><span>In September, Prof. Fulweiler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2019\/09\/19\/pardee-center-hosts-workshop-on-denitrification-capacity-of-oyster-habitats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convened a\u00a0two-day workshop<\/a> hosted by the Pardee Center to explore<\/span><span>\u00a0the nitrogen removal capacity of oyster habitats via denitrification. The workshop brought together a group of about 30 experts to assess the current state of knowledge on denitrification associated with oyster aquaculture and develop a path forward for including nitrogen removal capacity in future nutrient trading schemes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As a 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/graduate-summer-fellows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Graduate Summer Fellow<\/a>, Ray (a PhD candidate in the Department of Biology) developed a predictive model to estimate how much oyster aquaculture can reduce excess nitrogen in coastal ecosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pardee Center\u00a0Faculty Research Fellow\u00a0Prof. Robinson W. (Wally) Fulweiler\u00a0and 2019 Graduate Summer Fellow Nicholas Ray recently published a paper\u00a0titled &#8220;Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Native and Non-native Oysters&#8221; in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science.\u00a0The paper&#8217;s lead author was Gretchen McCarthy of the\u00a0Fulweiler Lab. The introduction of non-native species of oysters is commonly associated with a wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5451,60],"tags":[5363,5381,5371,5370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29451,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29449\/revisions\/29451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}