American Shoreline Podcast on Lobster Shell disease

07/01/2025

Naturalist allows one to publish pages that support ones interest in Nature .... Here I provide links to my publications stored at UMass Amherst using a page that provides the URLs to the document files. iNaturalist allows one to edit that file in a relatively simple way as a 'Project' and allows comments by iNat members to be added!

Submitted or in press None Podcasts Podcast: - American Shoreline Podcasts: Up to Maine with our Friend Dr. Joe Kunkel on Lobster Shell Disease on May 31, 2020. Podcast: - American Shoreline Podcasts: Lobster Shell Disease with Dr. Joe Kunkel.. (2019). March 4 2019. Podcast: - American Shoreline Pod...

12/23/2024

These are my latest 2024 insights into American Lobster health in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank ...

12/23/2024

I posted new analysis of 2023 Fall and Spring NMFS Lobster Protocol during the Groundfish Surveys ...

12/23/2024

Review of 2018-2022 with addition of 2023 observations on ESD in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank. The conclusion is that ESD is clumped in several locations each year but one can not yet say that a location harbors a causative condition or agent.

01/29/2024

To complete my interest in what Chat GPT-4 will do with a single image with requests for embellishments here is the original and 4 Hot Mod enhancements that each shows amazing detail but unpredictable 'errors' it the presentations ...

01/28/2024

Chat GPT4 imagination seems to have its limits but it does seem to understand my intention in taking a picture of this whale's tail as I was observing it from the bridge of the HB Bigelow in May 2015 ... The HotMod version idealizes the tail with dripping water and even shows the surface view of another whale part that is seen in my foreground but the idealized background ... Interesting but it did not attempt to complete the whale as it did my lobster carapace. Indicates some inconsistency of its available database and 'immagination'?

10/26/2023

Fellow fencer at Columbia College died in Taos NM ...

View Stephen D. Cetrulo M.D.'s obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

10/24/2023

Return of Shoreline Podcast interviewing Joe on Gulf of Maine Lobster situation October 12 2023.

In this episode, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham welcome back Dr. Joseph Kunkel, Emeritus Professor at UMass Amherst and Research Professor at UNE Biddeford, to discuss the escalating concerns around lobster shell disease in the Gulf of Maine. Since his last appearance on the show in 2020—still...

09/14/2023

Using new Nikon Z8 with 46 megapixel images I am able to visualize all the organule size classes in a lobster carapace. This will make it easier to identify the origin of ESD lesions (perhaps). This is my first 46 megapixel image carapace model ...

11/06/2022

Pictorial report of my April 2022 leg 4 trip on the HB Bigelow in the Gulf of Maine. As of yet only one of the Shell Diseased individuals has been modeled in 3D and is linked to at this url which lists all my pictures recorded on the trip:

04/23/2022

I am going out on the HB Bigelow as the first Volunteer Scientist to be allowed on the Groundfish Survey since the suspension of the Spring 2000 survey due to COVID19 on leg 4 of the survey. I will be serving on one of the 12-hour daily watches as member of the scientist crew and continuing my collaboration with the Epizootic Shell Disease survey protocol! Glad to be getting back into the saddle! 🙂

09/03/2021

Despite the relatively higher level of Epizootic Shell Disease (ESD) in the Gulf of Maine in past few years that seem to be clustered at first look, you rarely get an ESD lobster in the market based on most anecdotal reports from citizens. Most Maine citizens see the following when they 'rarely' eat a lobster out or more frequently have a lobster fest at home. Here see the cherry red traditional look at our recent 'fest'.