MARBLEHEAD – Salem Sound associate director Alison Frye will discuss horseshoe crabs as the April
“Underwater in Salem Sound” Lecture to be held Wednesday, April 19, 6:45 pm – 7:45 pm.This is part of the 2023 “Underwater in Salem Sound” Lecture Series.
Location: Program Room, Abbot Public Library and Online Via Zoom.
Please Register: To attend in person or on Zoom here: tinyurl.com/APL-Horseshoe-Crabs Click Here
Horseshoe crabs evolved almost 450 million years ago and are considered the “living fossils” of our time, surviving ice ages, asteroids, and five mass extinctions. Today, they continue to serve an important role, both ecologically
and economically, as their eggs provide sustenance for endangered shorebirds and their blue blood is used to advance biomedical research. Though they’ve endured these catastrophic events throughout Earth’s history, their population is in decline. Alison will discuss the importance of this elusive, prehistoric creature and how we can help it survive the next mass extinction.
Alison Frye is the Associate Director at Salem Sound Coastwatch, where her primary focus is on coastal resilience and habitat restoration projects. She earned a BS in Biology from Bates College and a MS in Marine Biology from Northeastern University. There, her research focused on nature-based solutions for climate adaptation, specifically utilizing living shorelines to mitigate erosion in the Great Marsh. Before coming to SSCW, Alison was a long-time science teacher and continues to teach a marine and climate science course to high school seniors at Waring
School in Beverly.
Registration is required to attend in person or via Zoom. Please register in advance for this meeting here: tinyurl.com/APL-Horseshoe-Crabs. After registering for Zoom, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For the past eleven years, Underwater in Salem Sound has been jointly sponsored by Salem Sound Coastwatch and Abbot Public Library.
All the lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit www.salemsound.org.
For additional information, please visit www.abbotlibrary.org, email mar@noblenet.org, or call 781-631-1481.
