. The Biological bulletin. Biology; Zoology; Biology; Marine Biology. R4 Annual Report. following odor plumes to their source of release. Lobsters are animals that locate odor sources (for example, baited traps) under water without visual or auditory signals. Scientists in Dr. Jelle Atema's laboratory have developed a tool known as Robo-Lobster to perform the plume tracing task and to learn about the sensory input and signal processing used by lobsters. Summer Research The MBL's laboratories were again tilled with scientists from all over the world during the summer of 1997. We welcomed back i
. The Biological bulletin. Biology; Zoology; Biology; Marine Biology. R4 Annual Report. following odor plumes to their source of release. Lobsters are animals that locate odor sources (for example, baited traps) under water without visual or auditory signals. Scientists in Dr. Jelle Atema's laboratory have developed a tool known as Robo-Lobster to perform the plume tracing task and to learn about the sensory input and signal processing used by lobsters. Summer Research The MBL's laboratories were again tilled with scientists from all over the world during the summer of 1997. We welcomed back investigators with whom we have worked for a number of seasons and were able to share in the enthusiasm of scientists working here for the first time, either as fellows or as new principal investigators. More than 400 scientists came to the MBL last summer to do their research, including 23 research fellows who received more than $171,000 in fellowship awards. The summer research season is framed by the Poster Session in June and is capped off by the General Scientific Meetings in August. These events attest to the breadth and diversity of the multidisciplinary work at the MBL where presentations range from papers in ecology and population biology to cellular and molecular biology to vision and biophysics. One of the highlights of the summer research season was Dr. Stephen Highstein's (Washington University) continuing work on the vestibular system of toadfish. The toadfish is an excellent marine model for studying how changes in pressure affect balance and equilibrium, because its vestibular system is similar to humans. Such studies teach us about motion sickness and dizziness, which are often signs of vestibular organ dysfunction. Highstein and his colleagues are focusing on the problems of nausea and dizziness experienced by astronauts when they get out beyond the earth's gravity, a malady known as "space adaptation ; As I write, four toadfish are passenger
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