2026 Cape Coastal Conference
Shared Solutions for Stronger Coasts & Communities
Northeast Regional Ocean Council: Initiating new monitoring activities to accelerate implementation of the regional ocean and coastal acidification monitoring plan
Project Title: Northeast Regional Ocean Council (NROC): Initiating new monitoring activities to accelerate implementation of the regional Ocean and Coastal Acidification monitoring plan Duration: October 2025 - October 2026 Funding [...]
Developing a method to survey blue crabs on oyster farms in southern Cape Cod
Project Title: Developing a method to survey blue crabs on oyster farms in southern Cape Cod Duration: June 2025-December 2025 Funding Source(s): Internal funding from Wellesley College Principal Investigator: [...]
Runnel Restoration
Project Title: Runnel Restoration Duration: May 1, 2025 – December 31, 2028 Funding Source: NFWF Lead Investigator / onsite-contact: Hillary Sullivan Affiliation: Friends of Herring River/Woodwell Climate Research Center Contact: [...]
Hamblin Pond Oyster Project
Project Title: Hamblin Pond Oyster Project Duration: June 2025-Aug 2025 Funding Source: The Nature Conservancy, USDA NRCS Lead Investigator: Daniel GoulartAffiliation, TNC Contact: daniel.goulart@tnc.org Project Description: TNC and it's project [...]
Effects of microplastic particles in Cape Cod salt marshes
Project Title: Effects of microplastic particles in Cape Cod salt marshes Duration: Sample collection: June and July 2025 Lead Investigator / onsite-contact: Ivan Valiela / Kelsey Chenoweth Affiliation: Marine Biological [...]
WRT ROV Testing
Project Title: WRT ROV Testing Duration: 4/30/25 – 5/2/25 Funding Source(s): ONR and ESTCP Lead Investigator / onsite-contact: Jared Schwartz, WHOI/WRT Email: jschwartz@whoi.edu Project Description: Testing the flight patterns and [...]
MBL Logan Science Journalism Program – water and biota sampling
Project Title: MBL Logan Science Journalism Program – water and biota sampling Duration: May to June 2025 Funding Source: Marine Biological Laboratory Lead Investigator / onsite-contact: Jim McClelland Affiliation: MBL [...]
The impact of excess nutrients on Waquoit Bay estuarine biota
Project Title: The impact of excess nutrients on Waquoit Bay estuarine biota Duration: May-2023 to December-2023 Funding Source(s): Various educational programs at MBL, including the Logan Science Journalism Program, the [...]
Effect of Sea Level Rise-Driven Vegetation Shifts and Die-Off on GHG Fluxes
Project Title: Effect of Sea Level Rise-Driven Vegetation Shifts and Die-Off on GHG Fluxes Duration: 09/24-09/25 Funding Source: NOAA Margaret A. Davidson Fellowship Lead Investigator: Emily Wilson, Boston University Contact: [...]
Novel Probes for Real Time Monitoring of Dissolved Gases and their Isotopologues in Aquatic Systems
Project Title: Novel Probes for Real Time Monitoring of Dissolved Gases and their Isotopologues in Aquatic Systems Duration: May 2025 – December 2026 Funding Source: NOAA-SBIR (NOAA-OAR-OAR-TPO-2022-2007117) Lead Investigator: Scott [...]
Deciphering drivers and variability in salt marsh lateral carbon export
Project Title: Deciphering drivers and variability in salt marsh lateral carbon export Duration: Project duration 8/1/2023 – 7/31/2026; field project duration April 2025 – August 2025 Funding Source(s): NSF Principal [...]
Monitoring zooplankton abundance and body condition in Waquoit Bay
Project Title: Monitoring zooplankton abundance and body condition in Waquoit Bay Duration: 03/2025 – 12/2026 Lead Investigators: Dr. Ann Tarrant, Dr. Amy Apprill, Erin Lyons Additional onsite-contact: Phil Alatalo Affiliation: [...]
Comparison of Carbon Stock in Pannes and Adjacent Marsh
Project Title: Comparison of Carbon Stock in Pannes and Adjacent Marsh Duration: July 2024 to June 2025 Funding Source(s): MIT Energy Initiative Shell Corporation Seed Funding Principal Investigator(s): Co-Lead Investigator [...]
Exploring the Role of Geukensia demissa in Carbon Sequestration
Project Title: Exploring the Role of Geukensia demissa in Carbon Sequestration Duration: 8/2025-9/2025 Funding Source(s): ORISE / NECASC supported research Principal Investigator(s), Julie Walker (NECASC) juliewalker@umass.edu, Erin Peck (URI) erin.peck@uri.edu [...]
Urine Diversion Toilets: What’s It All About?
A Workshop for Curious Community Members May 30, 2024 Nitrogen entering our coastal and fresh waters is the main reason the water quality of the coastal water bodies on the [...]
Quantifying groundwater nutrient inputs and their impacts to Waquoit Bay estuaries
Project Title: Quantifying groundwater nutrient inputs and their impacts to Waquoit Bay estuaries Duration: May-2024 to August-2024 Funding Source(s): Various educational programs at MBL, including the Logan Science Journalism Program, [...]
Understanding hyperspectral responses to environmental stressors in coastal wetlands
Project Title: Understanding hyperspectral responses to environmental stressors in coastal wetlands Duration: 6/1/2023-5/31/2025 Funding Source: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Interdisciplinary Grant Lead Investigator / onsite-contact: Julia Guimond, Woods Hole Oceanographic [...]
Exposure of marine worms to culture of Alexandrium catenella
Project Title: Exposure of marine worms to culture of Alexandrium catenella Duration: May 2024 – July 2024 Funding Source(s): WHOI Principal Investigator and contact info: Lead Investigator / onsite-contact: Donald [...]
2024 Cape Coastal Conference
June 18, 2024
Real-time Solar Monitoring Buoy
Project Title: Real-time Solar Monitoring Buoy Duration: 2/2024 to 6/2024 Funding Source(s): Unfunded Principal Investigator(s), institutional affiliation(s), and contact info: Lead Investigator / onsite-contact: Matthew Long Affiliation: Woods Hole Oceanographic [...]
Biogeographic variation in decomposition of a foundation species
Project Title: Biogeographic variation in decomposition of a foundation species Duration: January 2024 – June 2024 Funding Source: Duke University Lead Investigator / onsite-contact: David DeLaMater / Megan Tyrrell Affiliation: [...]
Pond Oxygenation Workshop: Learning Through Case Studies
November 8, 2023
There are many strategies to combat poor water quality that depend on the biology and nutrient inputs of each pond. This workshop, experts addressed a specific technology, oxygenation, that aims to manage algae by adding oxygen to the water column. The workshop touched on the few examples where oxygen has been circulated in ponds on Cape Cod (Santuit Pond, Mashpee & Skinequit Pond, Harwich), but focused on Oxygen Saturation Technology (OST) that oxygenates the bottom water layer of ponds without water mixing.
Data and lessons learned from lakes and ponds where OST has been implemented both locally (Sarah’s Pond, Orleans) and in California will be used to discuss the feasibility of OST to address poor water quality in Cape Cod’s freshwater ponds.....Learn more
Efficacy of established and emerging tidal marsh restoration methods
Project Title: Efficacy of established and emerging tidal marsh restoration methods Lead Investigator: Brian Yellen, UMass Amherst, byellen@umass.edu Onsite Contact: Sintra Reves-Sohn, UMass Amherst, srevessohn@umass.edu Project Description: Salt marshes are [...]
Hyperlocal water level monitoring
Project Title: Hyperlocal water level monitoring Duration: 2011-present Funding Source: NERRS Science Collaborative and other sources Principal Investigator(s), institutional affiliation(s), and contact info: Lead Investigator / onsite-contact: Vitalii Sheremet, Megan [...]
Evaluating innovative technologies to reduce the impact of septic system contaminants on ecological keystone species
Project Title: Evaluating innovative technologies to reduce the impact of septic system contaminants on ecological keystone species Duration: 2/2024-2/2026 Funding Source: Woods Hole Sea Grant Principal Investigator Lead Investigator / [...]
Investigating the presence of microplastics in the estuarine biota of Waquoit Bay
Project Title: Investigating the presence of microplastics in the estuarine biota of Waquoit Bay Duration: June-2023 to December-2023 Funding Source(s): NSF-REU Biological Discovery in Woods Hole Program, and the Semester [...]
Impacts of tidal hydrology on maritime forest and coastal marsh dieback
Project Title: Impacts of tidal hydrology on maritime forest and coastal marsh dieback Duration: July 2023 – Dec 2023 (continuation of July 2020-present project) Funding Source(s): NSF, Geological Society of [...]
Seasonal changes in Salicornia depressa metal accumulation and rhizosphere composition
Seasonal changes in Salicornia depressa metal accumulation and rhizosphere composition Duration: June 2023—September 2023 Funding Source: Startup grant from the University of Massachusetts Boston to B. Moyers Principal Investigators, institutional [...]
Restoring hydrology using runnels and salt marsh N biogeochemistry
Project Title: Restoring hydrology using runnels and salt marsh N biogeochemistry Duration: Aug 2022-Jul 2024 Funding Source(s): Margaret A. Davidson Graduate Fellowship, NOAA Lead Investigator / onsite-contact: Linda Deegan, Jen [...]
Winter flounder fyke and eDNA monitoring survey
Project Title: Winter flounder fyke and eDNA monitoring survey Duration: January 2023 to April 2023 Funding Source(s): MA State Funds Lead Investigator / onsite-contact: John Logan, MA Division of Marine [...]
Impacts of tidal hydrology on maritime forest and coastal marsh dieback
Project Title: Impacts of tidal hydrology on maritime forest and coastal marsh diebackDuration: July 2022 – Dec 2022 (continuation of July 2020-2021 project)Funding Source(s): NSF, Geological Society of America Student [...]
Pilot Drone Mapping of Marsh Biomass and Species for estimating Vegetation Drag
Title: Pilot Drone Mapping of Marsh Biomass and Species for estimating Vegetation Drag Lead Investigator / onsite-contact: Heidi Nepf Affiliation: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The flow resistance [...]
The impact of excess nutrients in Waquoit Bay estuaries
Project Title: The impact of excess nutrients in Waquoit Bay estuaries Duration: April-2022 to December-2022 Funding Source(s): Various educational programs at MBL, including the Logan Science Journalism Program, the NSFREU [...]
Spatial mapping of dissolved inorganic carbon across Waquoit Bay
Project Title: Spatial mapping of dissolved inorganic carbon across Waquoit Bay Duration: (month/year to month/year): Mid-late Sept 2021 Funding Source(s): MIT Seagrant, NOAA OER, NSF Principal Investigator: Mallory Ringham Affiliation: [...]
USGS-Woods Hole Spectroradiometer Testing and UAV flights
Project Title: USGS-Woods Hole Spectroradiometer Testing and UAV flights Duration: (9/22/2021 to 10/29/2021): Funding Source(s): USGS Lead Investigator: Jennifer Cramer, USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Phone:716-708-2103 Email:jcramer@usgs.gov [...]
Transfer of a low-cost tidal wetland water level monitoring system: hyperlocal calculations of inundation and tidal datums for understanding change and restoration planning
Title: Transfer of a low-cost tidal wetland water level monitoring system: hyperlocal calculations of inundation and tidal datums for understanding change and restoration planning Affiliation: Okeanolog/WBNERR Funding Source: NERRS Science [...]
Mercury loading in estuarine food webs in relation to nitrogen loading
Title: Mercury loading in estuarine food webs in relation to nitrogen loading Duration: July 2011-October 2017 Funding Source: WHOI Sea Grant Lead Investigator: John Logan Affiliation: Massachusetts Division of Marine [...]
Effects of sea level rise on maritime forest dieback
Project Title: Effects of sea level rise on maritime forest dieback Duration: July 2020-July 2021 Funding Source(s): NSF Lead Investigator: Elizabeth Watson Affiliation: Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences [...]
Trends in Water Quality in Response to Urbanization across Waquoit Bay
Tuesday, February 23 at 6:30PM - Recent Trends in Water Quality in Response to Urbanization across Waquoit Bay Estuaries Researchers from MBL have been studying the input, distribution and fate of [...]
Living with White Sharks
Wednesday, Feb 3 at 12:00PM - Over the past decade, Cape Cod has emerged as the only known aggregation site for white sharks in the western North Atlantic. The now-predictable [...]
Barrier Beaches as Specialized Habitat for Rare Moths
Tuesday, February 9 at 6:30PM - Life’s a Beach...for Insects too. Barrier Beaches as Specialized Habitat for Rare Moths Coastal dune systems have been under-surveyed for moths. Two barrier beach systems, Dead [...]
A Fetch Dependent Gas Transfer Velocity
Project Title: A Fetch Dependent Gas Transfer Velocity Year: 2020 Principal Investigators: Seth Zippel (AOPE) (szippel@whoi.edu) and Matthew Long (MCG) Affiliations: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Abstract: Air/water exchanges of gasses [...]
Forecasting Rates of Sediment Nutrient and Metal fluxes under Coastal Acidification
Title: Forecasting rates of sediment nutrient and metal fluxes under coastal acidification for improved estuarine water qualityYear: 2020-2022Principal Investigator/contact information: Claudia I. Mazur (she/her)Ph.D. Candidate, Fulweiler LabNOAA Margaret A. Davidson FellowEarth & [...]
Composition, Colonization, and Succession of Trematode Parasites in Estuarine Snail Populations
Title: Composition, Colonization, and Succession of Trematode Parasites in Estuarine Snail Populations Date: 06/2019 – 08/2022 Principal Investigators: Lauren Dykman Affiliation: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Email: ldykman@mit.edu PI: Lauren Dykman (right) [...]
Evaluating the Impact of Hydrologic Alterations on Salt Marsh Sustainability in a Changing Climate
Project Title: Evaluating the Impact of Hydrologic Alterations on Salt Marsh Sustainability in a Changing Climate Project Partners: Cape Cod Mosquito Control Project, Louisiana State University, National Park Service, United States [...]
Genetic Variation and Adaptation in the Salt Marsh Plant Salicornia depressa
Project Title: Genetic Variation and Adaptation in the Salt Marsh Plant Salicornia depressa Date: 2019 Principal Investigator: Brook Moyers, Affiliations: University of Massachusetts Summary: Salicornia are small annual saltwater marsh [...]
Tackling microplastic pollution in Waquoit Bay
Project Title: Tackling microplastic pollution in Waquoit BayDate: 2019 Principal Investigator(s): Javier Lloret , Rut Pedrosa-PamiesAffiliation: Marine Biological LaboratoryLink to Cape Cod Times article: https://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20190810/tackling-microplastic-pollution-in-waquoit-bay Additional Resources: Salt marsh sediments [...]
Water quality monitoring and modelling in Waquoit Bay estuaries
Project Title: Water quality monitoring and modelling in Waquoit Bay estuaries. Date: 6/2019-11/2019 Principal Investigator(s): Ivan Valiela, Javier Lloret Affiliations: Marine Biological Laboratory- The Ecosystems Center Summary: The Valiela Lab, [...]
Greenhouse Gas Measurement at Sage Lot
Project Title: Greenhouse Gas Measurement at Sage Lot Date: 5/2018-12/2018 Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Jim Tang, Dr. Faming Wang Affiliations: MBL Summary: In this study, we continued the field gas flux [...]
