Associate Professor in Sustainable Aquaculture. The Echinonerd Lab. Making choices to become more sustainable & reduce environmental impacts.
Joined August 2011
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13 Aug 2025
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. 🌊🔬 shorturl.at/KmBlC
#PhDposition #Microplastics #plastictreaty
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27 Nov 2024
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
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26 Nov 2024
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: web.uri.edu/plastics-reu/ #PlasticPollution #PlasticTreaty
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5 Apr 2024
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
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13 Dec 2023
Congrats to @PleeTara on publishing the 1st PhD chapter on optimizing green sea urchin hatchery production with good recommendations: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Supported by @USDA @USDA_NIFA & collab. between @universityofri & @UMaine #echinonerdlab #seaurchin
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8 Oct 2023
Giant pumpkin smash at the Rhode Island giant pumpkin fall festival
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13 Sep 2023
Ever wondered how green sea urchins are produced for aquaculture in New England, USA? Then watch this video for a short overview: youtu.be/GbTmqI-iDz8?si=FrFm… via @YouTube. Thanks for watching! @USDA_NIFA @USDA @universityofri @UMaineDMC @UMaine @PemeticSeaFarms #echinonerdlab
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3 Aug 2023
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
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18 Jun 2023
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
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1 Jun 2023
Recruiting a PhD student for my lab! Come and work with sea urchins in Rhode Island with field work in Maine, USA!
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31 May 2023
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
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9 Apr 2023
Visiting Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, the New England (not olde) variety. @MITMuseum
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9 Apr 2023
@rebecca_altman there was a really interesting textiles display in the @MITMuseum which was highlighting pollution issues
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Coleen Suckling retweeted
6 Mar 2023
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
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4 Jan 2023
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....
theguardian.com/science/2017…
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It's bad for science!
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It's good & bad.
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It's great for science!
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10 votes • Final results
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Coleen Suckling retweeted
14 Dec 2022
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!!
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Coleen Suckling retweeted
31 Oct 2022
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.
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Coleen Suckling retweeted
7 Oct 2022
How do #microfibers move through marine food webs?
Follow @echinonerd at @universityofri to learn about their ongoing investigations with mesocosms.
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23 Aug 2022
Amazing job opportunity open in Maine's (USA) Department of Marine Resources focussed on managing sea urchin and Northern Shrimp stocks: Marine Resource Scientist II: urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2…
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