Funded Projects 2010 - Present
Andy Danylchuk and Lucas Griffin of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Stripers on the Line: Quantifying short-term post-release activity, behavior and mortality of striped bass (Moronesaxatilis) in the Massachusetts recreational fishery
Robert Chen of University of Massachusetts Boston, Lois Hetland of Massachusetts College of Design, and Cedric Woods of the Institute for New England Native American Studies
Traditional Ecological Art & Science: Designing sustainable shorelines
Loretta Fernandez of Northeastern University and collaborators
Determining How Aquaculture Grow-Out Methods Can Reduce the Negative Effects of Parasites and Micropollutants
Jesús Pineda and Carolyn Tepolt, and graduate student Jane Weinstock of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Barnacle Biofouling on Oyster Farms: Species-specific seasonal timing and population connectivity
Malcolm Scully and Rocky Geyer of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Modeling Unprecedented Low Dissolved Oxygen (Hypoxia) in Southern Cape Cod Bay
» 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