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Melanie working in the lab on Sea Star Wasting Disease at WFRC Marrowstone Marine Field Station
Melanie and Grace working in the lab on Sea Star Wasting Disease at the WFRC Marrowstone Marine Field Station
Melanie and Grace working in the lab on Sea Star Wasting Disease at the WFRC Marrowstone Marine Field Station
Melanie and Grace working in the lab on Sea Star Wasting Disease at the WFRC Marrowstone Marine Field Station

This is a photo of Melanie Prentice and Grace Crandall working in the lab at the Western Fisheries Research Center Marrowstone Marine Field Station to find the causative agent behind Sea Star Wasting Disease, a bacteria called, Vibrio pectenicida.

Scientist, Paul Hershberger, leans over a green tank of fish in the Seattle wet lab
Scientist, Paul Hershberger Works in the Wet Lab
Scientist, Paul Hershberger Works in the Wet Lab
Scientist, Paul Hershberger Works in the Wet Lab

In this photo, Paul Hershberger is conducting research in the Seattle Western Fisheries Research Center wet laboratory. He is working to study diseases in fish.

man on boat with cloudy background
Jacob (Jake) Gregg
Jacob (Jake) Gregg
Jacob (Jake) Gregg

Jake Gregg manages the research aquaculture system at the Western Fisheries Research Center's Marrowstone Marine Field Station, which produces Specific Pathogen Free marine fish.

Jake Gregg manages the research aquaculture system at the Western Fisheries Research Center's Marrowstone Marine Field Station, which produces Specific Pathogen Free marine fish.

Sampling a patch of sea asparagus
Sampling a patch of sea asparagus near Marrowstone Marine Field Station
Sampling a patch of sea asparagus near Marrowstone Marine Field Station
Sampling a patch of sea asparagus near Marrowstone Marine Field Station

Photo (left to right): Dr. David Paez, Joanne Salzer, Jossline Aranda-Jackson (SEALASKA intern), and Dr. Gael Kurath sampling a patch of sea asparagus near the Western Fisheries Research Center’s Marrowstone Marine Field Station (MMFS).

Large purse seine net deployed from a research vessel during northern lights display
Large purse seine net deployed from a research vessel during northern lights display Hawkins Island, Alaska
Large purse seine net deployed from a research vessel during northern lights display Hawkins Island, Alaska
Large purse seine net deployed from a research vessel during northern lights display Hawkins Island, Alaska

Northern lights above Hawkins Island, Alaska. Large purse seine net is deployed from the stern of the research vessel R/V Solstice (owned and operated by Alaska Department of Fish and Game) during a joint collection effort with the USGS to sample fish for an annual disease survey in the sound.

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