EDALHAB

How and why UNH scientists spent four days underwater in EDALHAB 50 years ago

How and why UNH scientists spent four days underwater in EDALHAB 50 years ago

It was 1971 when Larry Harris, a professor of zoology at the University of New Hampshire, was approached by Jeff Savage, a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering, to collaborate on a research project. His proposal was to introduce the Dungeness crab, a West Coast species, to the Gulf of Maine off the coast of the Isles of Shoals, to see how it would interact with native species like lobsters and wolffish.