'This young lady was visiting Lovell's Island on a school (Boston Latin Academy) trip, arranged through the efforts of the National Park Service and the Harbor Connections Program. The animal in question is the Asian Shore Crab (hemigrapsus sanguineus), a recent invasive to the Boston Harbor Islands. Collecting and counting of the crabs by citizen scientists is helping scientists to monitor the expanding populations of this crab. Dr. Dave Delaney of McGill University was receiving this data for his doctoral dissertation. '
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