Dr. Dash (left) and his student, Landon Sanders (right), collecting profiles of salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, and pH
Dr. Dash (left) and his student, Landon Sanders (right), collecting profiles of salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, and pH at a site in the western Mississippi Sound over the Henderson Point and Pass Christian oyster reefs.

A story on a harmful algal bloom featuring Dr. Dash

Article by Emily Woodruff published on Jul 1, 2019

“Padmanava Dash, an assistant professor of geosciences at Mississippi State University, has been sending students to sample water quality since last March. When they conducted sampling mid-June, they only found oysters at two of five sites. Of those, the oysters they did find were all dead.”

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