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Pfiesteria piscicida, the cause of recent fish kills and illnesses in several Chesapeake Bay tributaries, including the Rappahannock River, is the topic of a slide show and discussion sponsored by the Ragged Mountain Resource Center and hosted by the Rappahannock Library County Comer Committee.
Phytoplankton ecologist Richard Lacouture of the Academy of Natural Sciences’ Estuarine Research Center in Calvert County, Md. will be the guest presenter at the library Friday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m.
For the past 12 years Laconture has been responsible for the phytoplankton component of ANS/ERC’s Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Monitoring Program.
Considered one of the region’s experts on Pfiesteria piscicida, Laconture was recently asked to
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