Coleen Suckling

Associate Professor in Sustainable Aquaculture. The Echinonerd Lab. Making choices to become more sustainable & reduce environmental impacts.

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

Please share! We’re recruiting a PhD student to study microplastic presence, distribution & impacts in Rhode Island, USA. Join a large, collaborative, statewide capacity-building project funded by #NSF. 🌊🔬 https://t.co/xxzDV1UAIP
#PhDposition #Microplastics #plastictreaty

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

Congratulations to @sdavisplastics for passing the Doctoral Defense! So proud of all that you’ve achieved on understanding microplastic pollution presence & impacts! #Echinonerdlab @universityofri @uricels @rhodeislandsg

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

Please share with your undergraduates! Are you passionate about addressing ocean plastic pollution? Then apply for one of our @NSF Research experiences for undergraduates (REU) summer internships @universityofri Visit: https://t.co/epqBtmdxgK #PlasticPollution #PlasticTreaty

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

Congratulations to @PleeTara for passing the Doctoral Defense today! So proud of all that you’ve achieved on sustaining green sea urchin production whilst in the #Echinonerdlab @universityofri @uricels @UMaine @USDA_NIFA

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

Fun interactive and immersive art @wndrmuseum

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

Congrats to @PleeTara on publishing the 1st PhD chapter on optimizing green sea urchin hatchery production with good recommendations: https://t.co/KN8sKvVp6V Supported by @USDA @USDA_NIFA & collab. between @universityofri & @UMaine #echinonerdlab #seaurchin

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

@HBrowman This is fun! Here is mine which appears to be sea urchin themed along with a coincidental pentamerous symmetry shape - just like sea urchins! #echinonerdlab

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

Giant pumpkin smash at the Rhode Island giant pumpkin fall festival

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

Ever wondered how green sea urchins are produced for aquaculture in New England, USA? Then watch this video for a short overview: https://t.co/BCyPKfF99y via @YouTube. Thanks for watching! @USDA_NIFA @USDA @universityofri @UMaineDMC @UMaine @PemeticSeaFarms #echinonerdlab

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

One of the nice outcomes of the work I do is enabling access to regionally produced sea urchin ‘uni’ (the orange stuff!) in New England! Delicious! @USDA_NIFA @USDA @SAREProgram @uricels
#echinonerdlab #seaurchin #seafood

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

Excited to start our @SAREProgram Partnership trial with Casco Bay Mooring integrating Atlantic Sea Scallops with Green Sea Urchins in Maine USA! Let's hope we can expand both markets & reduce problematic biofouling! @USDA @USDAScience @UMaine @UMaineDMC @universityofri @uricels

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

Recruiting a PhD student for my lab! Come and work with sea urchins in Rhode Island with field work in Maine, USA!

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

Thanks to @PemeticSeaFarms in Maine for a great weekend. We're excited to start trials integrating green sea urchins with Eastern Oysters for biofouling control! Look forward to seeing the results over the next few months! @SAREProgram @USDA #echinonerdlab #echinoderm #shellfish

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

@rebecca_altman there was a really interesting textiles display in the @MITMuseum which was highlighting pollution issues

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

Visiting Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, the New England (not olde) variety. @MITMuseum

[Sarah Davis, PhD @sdavisplastics]

For our upcoming mesocosm experiments, we're working on creating a more naturalistic food stock (in this case, whole oysters) containing controlled doses of spike plastics for crab exposure trials! #microplastics #plasticpollution #trophictransfer #jonahcrabs

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

An interesting article covering the profitable business of scientific publishing & whether it's bad for science or not....I'd be interested to see your thoughts on this through this poll....
https://t.co/D02WpE0rZX

[Coleen Suckling @echinonerd]

@sdavisplastics Amazing work Ashley and Maureen! Congratulations and thank you for all of your phenomenal efforts in driving this science forward!

[Sarah Davis, PhD @sdavisplastics]

So proud of our lab's Coastal and Environmental Fellows, Ashley and Maureen, for showcasing their amazing projects from the summer at their poster symposium. Ashley was awarded 2nd place poster for her plastics exposure work with blue crabs!!! The pinches were worth it!!

[Sarah Davis, PhD @sdavisplastics]

Testing the blue crab holding enclosures we built for the URI mesocosm tanks for upcoming #microplastics research! Each enclosure holds 2 crabs. Fingers crossed for no escapees.