Dr. Anson Hines

Summary

Dr. Anson Hines of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) uses a directional hydrophone to track an ultrasonically telemetered blue crab on the Rhode River. This investigation used ultrasonic telemetry to record the patterns of movement and habitat of the Atlantic blue crab, a commercially and biologically important denizen of the Chesapeake Bay. The research was carried out by Hines in collaboration with Dr. Thomas Wolcott, a professor in the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences of North Carolina Sate University, Raleigh.

Subject

• Hines, Anson "Tuck"
• Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)

Notes

Smithsonian Institution Research Reports, Winter 1986

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-016, Box 1, Folder: Research Reports Winter 1986

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Date

1986

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Crustacea
• Invertebrate Zoology
• Rhode River (Md.)
• Scientific apparatus and instruments
• Crabs
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Employees
• Animal Migration
• Field Work
• Ecology
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees
• Animal Migration--Crabs
• Chesapeake Bay

Place

Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Person, candid

ID Number

SIA2011-1165 and 85-16140-9A

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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