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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
June 18, 2024
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 [...]
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: [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 / [...]
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 [...]
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 Duration: June 2023—September 2023 Funding Source: Startup grant from the University of Massachusetts Boston to B. Moyers Principal Investigators, institutional [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 & [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Project Title: Spatial variability of carbon export from tidal marsh drainage Date: 11/2018-8/2019 Principal Investigator(s): Joseph Tamborski Affiliations: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summary: Salt marshes provide significant environmental and economic [...]
Project Title: Coupling sediment Fe(II) oxidation with denitrification and DNRA Date: 2019-2020 Principal Investigator(s): Claudia Mazur, Robinson Fulweiler Affiliations: Boston University Summary: Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for primary productivity [...]
Project Title: Larval behavior, Dispersal, and Connectivity of Estuarine Trematode Parasites Date: 6/2019-8/2022 Principal Investigator(s): Lauren Dykman Affiliations: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summary: Trematodes are abundant parasites that significantly influence [...]
Project Title: Groundwater controls on microbial communities in coastal aquifers Date: 6/2019-6/2020 Principal Investigator(s): Dr. James Heiss Affiliations: UMass Lowell Summary: Groundwater discharge from the seabed into coastal ecosystems carries [...]
Project Title: Phragmites porewater geochemistry Date: 6/2019-8/2019 Principal Investigator(s): Meagan Gonneea Affiliations: U.S. Geological Survey: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Summary: Methane is an important greenhouse gas produced [...]
Project Title: Quantifying Coastal Ocean Acidification Impacts on Estuarine Nitrogen Removal Date: 6/2019-6/2020 Principal Investigator(s): Robinson Fulweiler Affiliations: Boston University Summary: Ocean acidification in estuarine systems is expected to influence [...]
Project Title: Life’s a Barrier Beach- for moths, ants, bees and other insects. Date: 5/2019-11/2019 Principal Investigator(s): Mark J. Mello Affiliations: Lloyd Center for the Environment Summary: Moths have been [...]
Project Title: Investigating the effect of salinity on mud crab parasite communities Date: 7/2018-12/2018 Principal Investigator(s): Carolyn Tepolt, Zachary Tobias Affiliations: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Biology Summary: The [...]
Project Title: Assessing trends on watershed and stormwater nitrogen loading and vulnerabilities in meeting TMDLs in Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod. Date: 7/2016-4/2019 Principal Investigator(s): Ivan Valiela, Dani Hanacek Affiliations: [...]
Project Title: Trematode Parasites of Tritia obsoleta Date: 7/2018-8/2018 Principal Investigator(s): Lauren Dykman Affiliations: WHOI Summary: I am surveying populations of the Eastern Mudsnail (Tritia obsoleta) in Waquoit Bay to [...]
Project Title: Photochemical degradation of dissolved organic carbon at Waquoit Bay Date: 7/2018-7/2019 Principal Investigator(s): Collin Ward, Sam McNichol Affiliations: WHOI Summary: Dissolved organic carbon is a central intermediate in [...]
Project Title: HOBO RX3000 Nutrient Monitoring Date: 7/2018-10/2018 Principal Investigator(s): Jacob Lacourse Affiliations: Onset Computer – Director of Hardware Engineering Summary: Nitrogen and phosphorous are essential nutrients for plants. Aquatic [...]
Project Title: USGS Drone Flights at Sage Lot Pond Date: 7/2017-7/2018 Principal Investigator(s): Kevin Kroeger, Sandy Brosnahan, Meagan Gonneea Affiliations: USGS Summary: The U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole is [...]
