Cassidy Peterson
Virginia Institute of Marine Science Ph.D. candidate Cassidy Peterson, left, retrieves a juvenile Sandbar shark while surveying approximately 15 miles into the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, July 18, 2018.
Peterson, a NMFS-Sea Grant Population and Ecosystem Dynamics Fellow who worked over the summer continuing long-term fish surveys. With her research team, they sampled to obtain data for fisheries, management, determine specific fish community structure and diversity, keep consistency when collecting research samples and determine relative abundance.
(Photo by Aileen Devlin | Virginia Sea Grant)
Cassidy Peterson
Virginia Institute of Marine Science Ph.D. candidate Cassidy Peterson, left, retrieves a juvenile Sandbar shark while surveying approximately 15 miles into the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, July 18, 2018.
Peterson, a NMFS-Sea Grant Population and Ecosystem Dynamics Fellow who worked over the summer continuing long-term fish surveys. With her research team, they sampled to obtain data for fisheries, management, determine specific fish community structure and diversity, keep consistency when collecting research samples and determine relative abundance.
(Photo by Aileen Devlin | Virginia Sea Grant)