The Wrack

When green crabs arrived in New England more than 150 years ago, they found an unoccupied ecological niche in Maines salt marshes. Despite their long occupancy, great abundance, and serious impacts, there is a lot left to learn about green crabs. The reserves latest research has focused on understanding seasonal movements, population structure, sexual maturity, and effects on habitats.

A glitch gets fixed and our home page "current conditions" bar returns to delivering weather and water data.

New England's four research reserves are positioning themselves as Sentinel Sites through meticulous long-term environmental monitoring.

Recording in three distinct habitats at different times of the day and the year is creating a soundscape for long-term studies.

New faces arrive each June to assist with education and research programs for the summer. This year we welcome Cassie, Grace, Larissa, and Jessica, and welcome back Amanda.

With the practiced eye of a marine scientist, a post-career volunteer finds an uncommon copepod in a Wells Harbor plankton sample.

Environmental DNA could dramatically change the way reserve scientists survey streams, rivers, and estuaries for finfish and crustaceans.

Wells Reserve is expanding fisheries science and conflict management research thanks to two grants from the NERRS Science Collaborative.

We got lots of help over 10 weeks of fyke netting in the York River and added 3,759 fish records to our database. The results will be included in a report to the York River Wild and Scenic Committee.

Introduction to the larval fish monitoring done by reserve scientists at Wells Harbor.