Funded Projects  2010 - present

» Steve Elgar and Britt Raubenheimer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Shoreline Resilience and Inlet Management

» Scott Gallager and Jim Churchill, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Assessing the Seasonal and Storm-Impacted Transport and Biological Fate of Micro- and Nanoplastics Discharged from Wastewater Treatment Facilities into Massachusetts Coastal Waters

» Jennifer Jackman, Salem State University; Owen Nichols and Lisa Sette, Center for Coastal Studies; Stephanie Wood, Univ. of Massachusetts-Boston; George Maynard, Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance; Cynthia Wigren, Megan Winton, and Marianne Long, Atlantic White Shark Conservancy; and Allen Rutberg, Tufts University: Human Dimension of Rebounding Population of Seals and White Sharks on Cape Cod, MA

» Adrian Jordaan, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Michelle Staudinger and Allison Roy, U.S. Geological Survey: Closing the loop: characterizing habitat requirements, movements, and life stage linkages of river herring in Massachusetts watersheds

» Marianne Long and Megan Winton, Atlantic White Shark Conservancy: Understanding the rewilding of Cape Cod: Creating a curriculum unit for middle school learners

» Jordan Pitt, Mark Hahn and Neel Aluru, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Microplastics in coastal marine animals: Defining the problem

» Megan Winton, Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, and Greg Skomal, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries:  Development and testing of a near real-time white shark forecast system for Cape Cod, Massachusetts

• Michael Brosnahan and Don Anderson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Katherine Hubbard, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Maria Celia Villac, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Gregory Doucette, NOAA/National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science: PhytO-ARM, An Open-source Platform for Real-time Phytoplankton Monitoring, Data Sharing, and Automated Aquaculture Management
• Abigail Archer and Diane Murphy, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension, Melissa Sanderson, Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance, and Michele Insley, Wellfleet SPAT: Market Development to Diversify Shellfish Aquaculture Products in Massachusetts 
• Steve Elgar and Britt Raubenheimer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Shoreline Resilience 
• Mark Hahn and Chris Reddy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Halogenated Marine Natural Products: A Potential Risk to Human Health? 
• Di Jin, Porter Hoagland, and Hauke Kite-Powell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Valuation of Ecosystem Benefits of Living Shorelines 
• Hauke Kite-Powell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Increasing Northeast U.S. Aquaculture Production by Pre-Permitting Federal Ocean Space 
• Joel Llopiz and Rubao Ji, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Martha Hauff, Stonehill College, and Hannes Baumann, University of Connecticut: Source-Sink Dynamics and Habitat Modeling of Northern Sand Lance on Stellwagen Bank and Nantucket Shoals
• Amanda Spivak, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Giulio Mariotti, Louisiana State University: Pond Management and Carbon Storage in Salt Marshes 
• Jefferson Turner, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth: Harmful Phytoplankton Blooms in Buzzards Bay, MA
• Christopher Neill, Woods Hole Research Center, Casey Kennedy, USDA, and Rachel Jakuba, Buzzards Bay Coalition: A Watershed-Scale Analysis of Nitrogen Loading from Cranberry Agriculture in the Weweantic Watershed of Southeastern Massachusetts

• Bassem Allam et al., SUNY-Stony Brook: Probing Molecular Determinants of Bivalve Resilience to Ocean Acidification 
• Hannes Baumann, University of Connecticut: Sensitivity of Larval and Juvenile Sand Lance Ammodytes dubius on Stellwagen Bank to Predicted Ocean Warming, Acidification, and Deoxygenation 
• Michael Brosnahan, Don Anderson, Heidi Sosik, Rob Olson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Enhanced Monitoring and Spatial Mapping of Toxic Algal Blooms: Field Implementation of an Acoustic Cell Concentrator Coupled with Imaging In-Flow Cytometry
• Jarrett Byrnes, University of Massachusetts- Boston: Evaluating the Relationship between Kelp Forest Ecosystems and Water Temperature in the Southern Gulf of Maine 
• Jeff Donnelly, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Inverse Modeling of Prehistoric Storm Intensity Based on Grain Size Characteristics of Hurricane-Induced Events 
• Steve Elgar and Britt Raubenheimer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Modeling Shoreline Morphological Evolution
• Robert W. Howarth and Roxanne Marino, Cornell University: Nitrogen Pollution and Recovery from Nitrogen Pollution in a Seagrass-Dominated Estuary: A Whole Ecosystem Experiment 
• Scott Lindell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Integrating Mussel and Kelp Longline Culture Structures and Management 
• Diane Murphy, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension, Read Porter, Roger Williams University, Rebecca Kihslinger, Environmental Law Institute, and Michael Tlusty, New England Aquarium: Creating a Spatially Defined Tool for Marine Aquaculture Siting and Permitting 
• Dianna Padilla, SUNY-Stony Brook: Flexing mussels: Does Mytilus edulis Have the Capacity to Overcome Effects of Ocean Acidification? 
• Jesus Pineda, Karl Helfrich, Victoria Starczak, and Annette Govindarajan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Hydraulic Jumps at an Ecological Hotspot: Mechanisms of Zooplankton Accumulation, Temporal Variability, and Ecological Consequences
• Daniel Rogers, Stonehill College, and Virginia Edgcomb, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Understanding the Impact of Floating Oyster Aquaculture on the Carbon and Nitrogen Flux to the Sediments using Natural Abundance Isotopic Surveys and Metagenomic Approaches 
• Ivan Valiela, Marine Biological Laboratory, Ecosystems Center: Is the Recent Decreased Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition Improving Water and Vegetation Quality in Waquoit Bay Estuaries?
• Richard Wahle, University of Maine: Genetic and Phenotypic Response of Larval American Lobster to Ocean Warming and Acidification across New England's Steep Thermal Gradient

• Steve Elgar and Britt Raubenheimer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Modeling Shoreline Morphological Evolution 
• Robinson.W. Fulweiler, Boston University: Examining Significant Changes to the Nitrogen Cycle in Waquoit Bay
• Anne Giblin and Joe Valino, Marine Biological Laboratory, Ecosystems Center; and Gary Banta, University of Roskilde (Denmark): The Impacts of Increased Nitrogen Loadings on Decomposition in Salt Marshes: Does Eutrophication Enhance Marsh Accretion or Erosion?
• Jonathan Grabowski and Matthias Ruth, Northeastern University: Social and Ecological Factors Influencing Shoreline Hardening in the Northeast: Implications for Vulnerability, Resilience, and Informed Decision Making
• Porter Hoagland, Di Jin, and Hauke Kite-Powell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and John Duff, University of Massachusetts at Boston: Buy Out or Build Back? A Comparative Assessment of Approaches to Employing Public Funding to Vulnerable Coastal Properties in the Northeastern United States 
• Robert Howarth and Roxanne Marino, Cornell University: Nitrogen Pollution and Recovery from Nitrogen Pollution in a Seagrass-Dominated Estuary: A Whole Ecosystem Experiment
• Robert Johnston, Clark University, Klaus Moeltner and Christine Blinn, Virginia Tech University, and Christine Feurt, Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve: Coastal Hazards and Northeast Housing Values: Comparative Implications for Climate Change Adaptation and Community Resilience 
• Sibel Karchner and Mark Hahn, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Molecular Risk Assessment in Wildlife Using a Non-Destructive Assay
• Carl Lamborg, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, John Logan, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, and Ruth Carmichael, Dauphin Island Sea Lab: A History of Mercury Impacts to Waquoit Bay Clams 
• Joel Llopiz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Beyond Fish Passage: Variability in Nursery Habitat and its Influence on the Feeding, Growth, and Survival of the Early Life Stages of River Herring 
• Serena Moseman-Valtierra and John D. Kirby, University of Rhode Island, Jianwu Tang, Marine Biological Laboratory, and Kevin D. Kroeger, USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center: Shifts in Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Productivity of Coastal Wetlands in Response to Anthropogenic N Loading and Rising Sea Level 
• Jesús Pineda, Karl Helfrich and Victoria Starczak, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, José da Silva, University of Porto, Portugal, and David Wiley, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary: Reconciling Distributional Patterns with Foraging Processes in an Ecological Hotspot: Aggregation of Humpback Whales, Prey Abundance and Distribution, and the Shoaling of Non-Linear Internal Waves 
• Laela Sayigh, Mark Baumgartner, James Partan, and Michael Moore, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Development of an Automatic Mass Stranding Alert System
• Laela Sayigh and Kathy Patterson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and M. Carla Curran, Broader Impacts, LLC: Experiential Learning for the Visually Impaired: Eavesdropping on Marine Mammal Conversations
• Roxanna Smolowitz, Roger Williams University, Hauke Kite-Powell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and John Brawley, Saquish Scientific: Research to Inform Regulatory Decisions on the Management of Vp in MA Shellfish Growing Areas
• Jefferson Turner and Brian Howes, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth: “Rust Tides” of the Toxic Dinoflagellate Cochlodinium polykrikoides in Buzzards Bay 
• Jeanette Wheeler, Lauren Mullineaux, and Karl Helfrich, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Behavioral Responses of Competent Larval Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) to Chemical Settlement Cue in Turbulent Flow

• Matthew Bracken, Northeastern University, and Carol Thornber, University of Rhode Island: Mechanisms for Success and Potential Impacts of an Invasive Seaweed Heterosiphonia japonica in New England Coastal Waters
• James Churchill, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Geoffrey Cowles, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth: Modeling as a Tool to Better Understand Bay Scallop Recruitment and to Manage Bay Scallop Populations
•  Robinson W. Fulweiler, Boston University: Quantifying the Impact of Low Oxygen Conditions on Sediment Methane Fluxes in Waquoit Bay
•  Rebecca Gast and Michael Moore, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Giardia and Cryptosporidium in Cape Cod Seals and Their Flounder Prey: Issues of Fish, Seal, Fisherman and Consumer Health
• Scott Lindell, Marine Biological Laboratory, and Charles Yarish, University of Connecticut: Multi-Cropping Shellfish and Macroalgae for Business and Bio-Extraction
• Aran Mooney, Laela Sayigh, Peter L. Tyack, and Alessandro Bocconcelli, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Douglas Nowacek, Duke University Marine Laboratory: Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Biological Sounds and Ambient Noise Levels at the Proposed Cape Wind Site
• Serena Moseman-Valtierra and John D. Kirby, University of Rhode Island, Jianwu Tang, Marine Biological Laboratory, and Kevin D. Kroeger, USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center: Shifts in Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Productivity of Coastal Wetlands in Response to Anthropogenic N Loading and Rising Sea Level
• Lauren Mullineaux and Meredith White, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Transgenerational Exposure of Bay Scallops to Ocean Acidification
• Jesús Pineda, Karl Helfrich and Victoria Starczak, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, José da Silva, University of Porto, Portugal, and David Wiley, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary: Reconciling Distributional Patterns with Foraging Processes in an Ecological Hotspot: Aggregation of Humpback Whales, Prey Abundance and Distribution, and the Shoaling of Non-Linear Internal Waves
• Laela Sayigh, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and M. Carla Curran, Broader Impacts, LLC: It’s Noisy Out There! Using Dolphins and Whales to Teach Students about How Humans Influence Coastal Ecosystems
• Simon Thorrold and Joel Llopiz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Investigating Decadal-Scale Changes at the Base of the Georges Bank Food Web Through the Use of Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Analyses of Haddock Scales
• Porter Hoagland and Di Jin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Decision-Support for the Economic Analysis of Trade-offs in Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP) for the US Northeast Region (Regional Socioeconomic Project from the Northeast Sea Grant Consortium Competition)

• Magowan, K., Reitsma, J. and Murphy, D.:  Use of Dual-Frequency Identification Sonar to Monitor Adult River Herring in a Small Coastal Stream
• John W. Brawley, Duxbury Bay Maritime School: Integrating Experiential Fieldwork with a Marine Ecology Curriculum for Southeastern Massachusetts
• James Churchill, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Geoffrey Cowles, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth: Modeling as a Tool to Better Understand Bay Scallop Recruitment and to Manage Bay Scallop Populations
• Anne Cohen and Daniel McCorkle, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Ocean Acidification Impacts on Larval Shell Formation by Commercial Shellfish Species of New England: An Experimental Investigation
• Robinson W. Fulweiler, Boston University: Assessing the Impact of Hypoxia/Anoxia on Sediment Denitrification and the Production of Nitrous Oxide in Waquoit Bay
• Rebecca Gast and Michael Moore, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Giardia and Cryptosporidium in Cape Cod Seals and Their Flounder Prey: Issues of Fish, Seal, Fisherman and Consumer Health
• Glen G. Gawarkiewicz and Anthony Kirincich, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Characterizing the Variability of the Outer Cape Coastal Current
• Anne Giblin and Joseph Vallino, Marine Biological Laboratory: Alternative Nitrogen Cycling Pathways: When Does Nitrate Disappearance Alleviate Eutrophication?
• Robert Glenn, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, Sarah Martinez, Massachusetts Audubon, and Alison Leschen, Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve: Assessment of Movement Patterns and Spawning Site Fidelity of Female Horseshoe Crabs via Telemetry: Implications for Management of the Fishery
• Porter Hoagland and Hauke Kite-Powell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Developing New Institutions for Managing Ocean Zoning
• Robert W. Howarth and Roxanne Marino, Cornell University: Does Epiphytic Nitrogen Fixation Lead to a Spiral of Increasing Eutrophication in Shallow Estuaries?
• Hauke Kite-Powell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Mitigating Risk to Whales from Lobster Fishing
• Gareth Lawson, Andone Lavery and Peter Wiebe, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Essential Fish Habitat: Quantifying the Roles of Euphausiid Behavior and Physical Aggregation Mechanisms in the Canyons of the New England Continental Shelf Break Using Broadband Acoustic Techniques
• Daniel McCorkle, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Controls on Calcification by Shellfish: Carbonate Chemistry of Bays and Estuaries in Southeastern Massachusetts