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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Eutrophication of Cape Cod estuaries: Effect of decadal changes in global-driven atmospheric and local-scale wastewater nutrient loads. Date: 2016 Principal Investigators: Valiela, I., Owens, C., Elmstrom, E., & [...]
Project Title: Sediment Nitrogen Fixation: a Call for Re-evaluating Coastal N Budgets Date: 2016 Principal Investigator(s): Newell, S. E., McCarthy, M. J., Gardner, W. S., & Fulweiler, R. W. Affiliation: [...]
Project Title: Molecular evidence for sediment nitrogen fixation in a temperate New England estuary Date: 2016 Principal Investigator(s): Newell, S. E., Pritchard, K. R., Foster, S. Q., & Fulweiler, R. [...]
Project Title: Sediment nitrous oxide fluxes are dominated by uptake in a temperate estuary Date: 2016 Principal Investigator(s): Foster, S.Q., & Fulweiler, R.W. Summary: Coastal marine ecosystems are generally considered [...]
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 [...]
2016 Ivan Valiela/ Elizabeth Elmstrom Marine Biological Laboratory- The Ecosystems Center Funding Source(s): WHOI Sea Grant
2016 Robinson W. Fulweiler(Boston University); Teri O’Meara (University of Auckland) Funding Source(s): Boston University, University of Auckland
Project Title: Experimental assessment of the macroalgae Ascophyllum nodosum and Fucus vesiculosus for monitoring N sources at different time-scales using stable isotope composition Date: 2015 Principal Investigator(s): Viana, I. G., [...]
Project Title: Primary Producers in the Sea Date: 2015 Principal Investigator: Valiela, I. Abstract: We use the term “primary producers” to include a large variety of organisms that manufacture organic [...]
PI: Hauke-Kit Powell, WHOI Julia Mason, WHOI Summer Student Funding: WHOI Summer Student Program
PIs: Meagan Gonneea, MIT / WHOI Joint Program, PhD Candidate, NERRS GRF Isaiah Bolden, WHOI Summer Student, Bowdoin College Funding: WHOI Summer Student Program
PIs: Gina Wimp, Georgetown University Dan Lewis, Georgetown University Shannon Murphy, Denver University Funding: NSF
PIs: Rachel Stanley, WHOI Evan Howard, WHOI Funding: WHOI
PIs: Jennifer Bowen, UMASS-Boston Ken Foreman, MBL Ecosystems Center Funding: MIT Seagrant Description: Permeable Reactive Barriers (PRBs) are currently being tested at the Waquoit Bay Reserve as a potential partial [...]
PI: Scott Lindell, Scientific Aquaculture Program, MBL. Funding: WHOI-Seagrant Description: Nutrient enrichment from septic systems is one of the most pressing coastal problems on Cape Cod. Towns are facing staggering [...]
PI: Meagan Gonneea, MIT / WHOI Joint Program, PhD Candidate Advisor: Matthew Charette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Funding: NERRS Graduate Research Fellowship at Waquoit Bay NERR (current) As groundwater flows [...]
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 [...]
Project Title: Carbon Management in Coastal Wetlands: Quantifying Carbon Storage and Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Tidal Wetlands to Support Development of a Greenhouse Gas Protocol and Economic Assessment Project Lead: [...]
