If you live in the Upper Valley, you’re probably well-acquainted with ticks and the risks they pose.Images of the parasites at various stages in their lifespans – larva, nymph and adult, including male and female – taken using a scanning electron.
Dartmouth researchers get a microscopic view of ticks
Images of ticks at various stages in their lifespans – larva, nymph and adult, including male and female – were taken using a scanning electron microscope at Dartmouth College show just how complex ticks are. (Electron Microscope Facility at Dartmouth College photograph)
Images of ticks at various stages in their lifespans – larva, nymph and adult, including male and female – were taken using a scanning electron microscope at Dartmouth College show just how complex ticks are. (Electron Microscope Facility at Dartmouth College photograph)
Images of ticks at various stages in their lifespans – larva, nymph and adult, including male and female – were taken using a scanning electron microscope at Dartmouth College show just how complex ticks are. (Electron Microscope Facility at Dartmouth College photograph)
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Counting on Seals
By Michael Lucibella,
Photo Credit: Kaitlin Macdonald
The 2020 seal team field crew. From left to right, Kaitlin Macdonald, Parker Levinson and Will McDonald.
Fewer researchers and support staff traveled to Antarctica in 2020 to reduce the risk of introducing the virus to the continent. One of the few science teams that did go is working on the long-term study of Weddell seals in McMurdo Sound. We re trying to understand how things mothers do for their offspring might help those pups do better or do worse later in life, said Jay Rotella, an ecologist at Montana State University and principal investigator on the project.