Ecologically Valuable and Delicious: The Paradox of the Eastern Oyster

The UNC Coastal Studies Institute (UNC-CSI) hosted its second "Science on the Sound" lecture at 6pm on July 25, 2013 at the newly constructed UNC-CSI campus located on Roanoke Island, NC. The program, entitled "Ecologically Valuable and Delicious: The Paradox of the Eastern Oyster", featured a presentation by Dr. Michael Piehler, UNC-CSI Estuarine Ecology and Human Health Program Head and Associate Professor at UNC Chapel Hill's Institute of Marine Sciences, on his research on this economically and environmentally important species.