Looking through a microscope, Lane Butler, senior scientist with the Philadelphia Water Department, observes a cluster of juvenile mussels. The bivalves, no bigger than a grain of sand, open and close their shells around algae. Nearby, Butler’s colleague Matt Gentry, shellfish coordinator with the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary (PDE), uses a pipette to place … Continue reading Clean Water? We’ve Got a Mussel for That
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