Presentation Year

2024

College or Department

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

Pacific purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) have seemingly slow movement. I asked if it was possible for them to travel to uninhabited pools that neighbor their inhabited sites within a 6-week period occurring February through March of 2024. I used manual counting methods to determine sea urchin abundance in each pool. I utilized a divided quadrat to assess the percent of red algae cover of targeted sites to analyze whether adult urchin movement was correlated with food abundance. Overall, there was no evidence that sea urchin movement correlates with the algae cover percentage. Although, there was evidence that occasional colonization of pools occurred.

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Yes

Primary Contact: First Name

Holly

Primary Contact: Last Name

Elbert

Primary Contact: Email

hme9@humboldt.edu

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Undergraduate Student

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7073641938

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1506

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