Daytrippers
Following researchers on South Carolina’ s North Inlet
Story and photographs by Shauneen Hutchinson
In March 2016, the Post & Courier featured a report called“ Every Other Breath” on the front page of a Sunday edition and devoted almost seven pages to the fascinating story of plankton— the tiny plant and animal organisms floating in the Earth’ s water. The report is available as an eBook from Amazon. With the cooperation of its author, Tony Bartelme, Christian Sardet, a French author and researcher, Dennis Allen, resident director of the Baruch Marine Field Lab, and photographer Wade Spees, as well as the newspaper, we included an excerpt from the article in the Summer / Fall 2016 issue of Naturally Kiawah. This past September we had an opportunity to visit Dennis Allen at the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences in Georgetown for a closer look at research that has been underway for over 35 years.
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