Featured Projects – Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

Response of the plankton community to changes in anthropogenic nutrients

Lead Investigator: Dr. Nicole Millette Affiliation: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Funding Source: Woods Hole Sea Grant High inputs of nutrients, specifically nitrogen, is one of the major issues impacting Waquoit [...]

Response of the plankton community to changes in anthropogenic nutrientswbreserve2018-05-15T12:06:57-04:00

Tea bag decomposition experiment

Principal Investigators: Dr. Faming Wang, Dr. Jianwu (Jim) Tang, Marine Biological Laboratory We use commercially available tea bags as standardized test kits to gather data on salt marsh decomposition rates. This [...]

Tea bag decomposition experimentwbreserve2018-05-15T12:11:44-04:00

The Impact of Nitrogen-loading on Salt Marsh Greenhouse Gas Fluxes

PIs: Serena Moseman-Valtierra, University of Rhode Island, Jianwu Tang, MBL Ecosystems Center, Kevin Kroeger, USGS-Woods Hole Science Center, Funding: MIT Seagrant The general goal for the project is to measure [...]

The Impact of Nitrogen-loading on Salt Marsh Greenhouse Gas Fluxeswbreserve2018-02-07T13:50:37-05:00