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Bioacoustics

Bioacoustics This program is a collaboration between the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center and Woods Hole Sea Grant. Background Light is very limited in the ocean habitat. Below the photic zone (the depth to which sunlight is able to penetrate) it is very dark. For marine mammals, however, this vast 3-dimensional world is far from dark. The…

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Funded Projects by Year

Funded Projects  2010 – Present 2024-2025 Collapse Jill Carr of the University of Massachusetts Boston, Forest Schenck of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, and Alison Frye of Salem Sound Coastwatch Restoring Eelgrass: Identifying best practices for a seed-based approach   Ken Foreman and Ketil Koop-Jackobson of Marine Biological Laboratory, and Matt Long of the…

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2016-2018 Projects

Nitrogen pollution and recovery from nitrogen pollution in a seagrass-dominated estuary: A whole ecosystem experiment Robert Howarth and Roxanne Marino, Cornell University Hydraulic jumps at an ecological hotspot Jesús Pineda, Karl Helfrich, Victoria Starczak and Annette Govindarajan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Is the recent decreased atmospheric nitrogen deposition improving water and vegetation quality in Waquoit…

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Recent Peer-reviewed journal articles

Peer-reviewed journal articles acknowledging Woods Hole Sea Grant funding (2015 – 2017):   Wheeler, J. D., Luo, E., Helfrich, K. R., Anderson, E. J., Starczak, V. R., & Mullineaux, L. S. (2017). Light stimulates swimming behavior of larval eastern oysters Crassostrea virginica in turbulent flow. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 571, 109-120. doi: 10.3354/meps12106 Sullivan, L.…

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New Tools for Assessing Water Quality: Stable Isotope Analysis of Nutrients

March 2002 Eutrophication of coastal waters from the excessive input of nutrients is a widespread problem throughout coastal ecosystems. Unlike inputs of toxic chemical contaminants that are generally highest in industrialized urban areas, nutrient inputs occur in both urban and less developed sections of the coast. Nutrients can be derived from point sources, such as…

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