Nim Lee

Environmental Education for an Urban Environment

In 2007, I co-wrote a manuscript that was presented at the American Fisheries Society’s annual meeting titled Urban Fishing Symposium. The paper gives a summary of the program I worked for, I FISH NY.

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Greenhouse Gas Cards

In 2004 when climate change was still being debated as a real phenomenon, I developed these cards so that people could see the relative importance of their decisions as they affect climate change. This project was made under the supervision of Dr. Jeremy Jackson, at Scripps University of Oceanography with additional funding by the Audrey Chase Memorial Scholarship for Climate Change.

Personal guide to consumption

Personal guide to transportation

Personal guide to home energy

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Census with NYC Audubon

In 2009, I volunteered to help count and tag horseshoe crabs with the NYC Audubon Society.

Fieldwork in The Outer Banks

Callinectes sapidus Migratory patterns off coastal North Carolina

During my studies at Duke University I worked under Dr. Dan Rittschof investigating the life cycles of the commercially important blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus. Tagged crabs were captured and recaptured through a coordinated effort by the scientific research team at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, NC and cooperating fishermen. Looking at spreadsheets and GIS patterns, I helped analyze crab movement from embayments to open oceans by looking at egg stage development; Females bear a clutch of eggs called sponges that change color with maturation. By looking at the stage of the eggs and the location of the crabs, we were able to approximate the migratory patterns of these highly mobile creatures.

A feisty blue crab specimen

This study realizes the importance of basic natural history investigation for the management of commercially important species. As with many fisheries, the crab fishery in North Carolina is under threat from overfishing. Knowing spatial trends, such as the preferred habitat of ovigerous females could be used to avoid fishing in areas that would deplete the next generation of larvae.