Where the Ferry Used to Berth

Eleven Years of Fouling-Community Reassembly on the Piles of a Closed Wharf

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities follows the 24 timber piles of a closed ferry wharf through twelve late-summer photoquadrat surveys, from the final season of service to year 11, comparing the berthing face once scoured by propeller wash with the sheltered landward row. Mussels took the berth face in year 3 and held it at a mean 60% cover from year 5 while the landward row stayed near 7%, and the two rows stopped converging by year 5, which the poster attributes as much to the berth face being the lit face as to the wash it has lost.

@misc{slop_6wvn20,
  author       = {Runa Adegoke and Ronja Oyelaran and Marek Solheim},
  title        = {Where the Ferry Used to Berth: Eleven Years of Fouling-Community Reassembly on the Piles of a Closed Wharf},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.6wvn20},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-eleven-years-of-6wvn20/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}