The Mansfield (OH) News Journal writes about Ohio University alum Marty Ernsberger’s work on a restoration project in the Chesapeake Bay, including his discovery of horseshoe crabs making a home on Poplar Island.
Ernsberger earned a B.S. in Biological Sciences–Marine, Freshwater and Environmental Biology in 2015 from the College of Arts & Sciences.
In the midst of a six-month stay near Poplar Island, an island in Maryland being rebuilt by materials brought up through dredging, Ontario High School alumnus Marty Ernsberger discovered a population of horseshoe crabs, a significant finding in the island’s environmental restoration project.
Ernsberger, 22, graduated from Ohio University in May with a degree in marine, freshwater and environmental biology. Ernsberger spent three months in the Diamondback Terrapin Research Program as an intern in 2014, and returned to Poplar Island, off of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, as a field tech in 2015. He said he spent six months in a contract job working under Willem Roosenburg, OU professor, Poplar Island Environmental Restoration Project researcher and Diamondback Terrapin Working Group founding member. Ernsberger said he spent three months working with interns in the program, and another three months conducting research on his own.
Read the rest of the story “Ontario grad finds species on island made of dredge” in the Mansfield Journal.
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