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This is publication number 397 of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.

John Dindo, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL 36528.

RESOURCES * Learn how to identify different types of jellyfish and see what else the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama is doing to monitor jellyfish blooms at their Dock Watch Web site: www.

Many of their practices, I won't say they're environmentally friendly, but I will say environmentally tolerant," said George Crozier, a marine biologist and former executive director at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama.

Propelled by the fast-warming Southern Ocean, the invaders' return will hit hardest animals such as brittle stars, which evolved within a food chain of little predation, says Richard Aronson, an ecologist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama.

Bieisiot (1), (1) University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406; (2) Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL 36528; and (3) University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, MS 39566 The effect of dissolved oxygen concentration ([DO]) on budding of Aurelia aurita and Drymonema dalmatinum was investigated as part of a project to examine the effects of environmental variables on scyphozoan asexual reproduction.

George Crozier, director of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, is talking to Ray Vaughan and me about nutrient runoff and its possible link to blooms of stinging jellyfish in the Mississippi Sound and Mobile Bay.

Since the 1998 bleaching was blamed on unusually warm sea temperatures, the coral death is another signal to be concerned about global climate change, said Rich Aronson, a senior marine scientist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab on Dauphin Island, Ala.