Funded Projects 2010 - 2020
- 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