{"id":648,"date":"2021-02-23T15:57:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/?page_id=648"},"modified":"2021-02-23T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:57:10","slug":"larvaeinice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/projects\/larvaeinice\/","title":{"rendered":"The surprising barnacle larvae in ice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h1>The surprising barnacle larvae in ice<\/h1>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"4\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"690\" height=\"21\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Late stage barnacle larvae (cyprids) of the abundant <em>Semibalanus balanoides<\/em> can tolerate weeks embedded in sea-ice<\/strong>\n<p>After thawing, most larvae survive, settle, metamorphose, and grow to reproduction. For larvae kept in sea-ice for two weeks, there is little penalty in terms of survival, settlement, metamorphosis, and growth to reproduction. Furthermore, freezing conditions changes cyprid&#8217;s settlement behavior<\/p>\n<p>In southern New England, USA, <em>Semibalanus<\/em> settlement in the intertidal coincides with the coldest water and air temperatures, which are often freezing. Thus, larvae sometimes face freezing conditions when settling. Here are some photos of the intertidal, the larvae , and some brave lab members. You can read the whole story <a href=\"http:\/\/science.whoi.edu\/labs\/pinedalab\/PDFdocs\/Pineda_et_al_L&amp;O_05.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_654\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-654\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2021\/02\/Park_rd_Yll_ice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Park Rd. site, in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, USA, 41.5325\u00b0N, 70.671\u00b0W. Other photos of sites covered with ice: 1, 2, and 3.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_653\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-653\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2021\/02\/Larvae_in_ice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"809\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Semibalanus balanoides in ice, sampled from the field.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_652\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-652\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2021\/02\/Cyprid_in_ice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"736\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Semibalanus balanoides in ice, sampled from the field (2).<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_651\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-651\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2021\/02\/frozen_quadrat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"466\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natural settlement substrate, frozen. (This is actually one of our photo-quadrats.) Recently settled cyprids and metamorphs under a thin ice layer.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_650\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-650\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2021\/02\/Tom_Bird_in_Ice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Bird, looking for barnacle settlers.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\t<h3>Funding Agencies<\/h3>\n<p>The National Science Foundation under grant number XXX and the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration under grant number XXX funded this research.<\/p>\n\n\t<h3>Partners\/Collaborators<\/h3>\n<p>This is a joint project with Institution Number One, College Number Two, Organization Number Three, and Corporation Number Four.<\/p>\n\t<h3>Related Links and File<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#\">A link<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\">Another link<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\">As many links as you want<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\">A\u00a0PDF file attachment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<h3>Research Papers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#\">A link<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\">Another link<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\">A\u00a0PDF file attachment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surprising barnacle larvae in ice Late stage barnacle larvae (cyprids) of the abundant Semibalanus balanoides can tolerate weeks embedded in sea-ice After thawing, most larvae survive, settle, metamorphose, and grow to reproduction. For larvae kept in sea-ice for two weeks, there is little penalty in terms of survival, settlement, metamorphosis, and growth to reproduction.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648\/revisions\/655"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pinedalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}