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Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Current and Pending Research Projects through 2005

Internal Projects
Project
Institution
Principle Contacts
BayWatchers: Citizen Water Quality Monitoring
since 1993, currently 8 sites
WBNERR MK Fox
C. Weidman
CoastWatchers: Citizen Shoreline Change Monitoring
since 2000, 4 times a year, 75 sites, 3 miles of beach
WBNERR C. Weidman
H. Tschaekofske
MK Fox
NERR SWMP -- Water Quality
since 1996, 1/2 hourly continuous records, 4 sites
WBNERR H. Tschaekofske
C. Weidman
NERR SWMP -- Meteorology
since 2002, 15 minute continuous records
WBNERR H. Tschaekofske
MK Fox
C. Weidman
NERR SWMP -- Nutrients
since 2002, monthly records, 4 sites
WBNERR MK Fox
C. Weidman
NERR SWMP -- Bio-mapping salt marsh vegetation, seaweed and seagrass
2004-05, repeated every 3-5 years
WBNERR



Mashpee
Mass. DEP
A. Reynolds
H. Tschaekofske
C. Weidman
B. Annett
R. York
C. Costello
Restricted Salt Marsh Monitoring
salt marsh restoration project
WBNERR
Mass CZM
B. Annett
B. Carlisle
Salt Marsh Fish Survey WBNERR B. Annett

 

Other NOAA Estuarine Research Division Supported Projects
NERR Graduate Research Fellowship and CICET projects

Project
Institution
Principle Contacts
Designing effective coastal outreach programs University of Rhode Island B. Barak
GRF -- WBNERR
Stable isotope signatures in saltmarsh cordgrass BUMP-MBL E. Kinney
GRF -- WBNERR
I. Valiela
Plant-herbivore interaction: latitudinal variation and impacts of climate change University of Houston C-K. Ho
GRF -- ACENERR
CICEET: Web framework for comparative N-loading models BUMP -- MBL J. Bowen
GRF -- JBNERR
I. Valiela
CICEET: Shellfish aquaculture and nitrogen-load mitigation WHOI
WHOI/USGS
WHOI-SG/Barnstable County
WHOI
H. Kite-Powell
K. Kroeger
B. Walton
D. Angel
CICEET: Designing a new efficient onsite senitrification septic system UMASS -- Dartmouth
UMASS Amherst
S. Sengupta
S.J. Ergas
CICEET: Fecal coliform/colliphage RNA monitoring Universtiy of North Carolina G. Lovelace
M. Sobsey
CICEET: Reactive barrier technology for reducing estuarine N-loading Ecosystems Center/MBL
Ecosystems Center/MBL
Lombardo Assoc.
K. Foreman
J. Valino
P. Lombardo
CICEET: Rapid assessment of anthropogenic copper pollution in estuaries WHOI
University of Maryland
J. Moffet
R. Thompson
Synthesis of SWMP data for ASSETS eutrophication assessment of the Northeast region NERR's NOAA
Wells NERR
FB Environmental
S. Bricker
C. Dalton
F. Dillon

 

Collaborative Projects
Project
Institution
Principle Contacts
Creating a 30-year faunal database from MA Division of Fisheries young of the year winter flounder seine survey in Waquoit Bay and Cape Cod south coast estuaries WBNERR
MA DMF
WBNERR
E. Shields
V. Manfredi
C. Weidman
Falmouth Buzzard's Bay shoreline study Falmouth CRWG
USGS
WBNERR
WBNERR
J. Tucker, Chair
R. Thieler
C Weidman
A. Reynolds
Sedimentology processes and evolution of Waquoit Bay WBNERR
WHOI
WHOI
C. Weidman
M. Charette
J. Donnelly
Shelf -- estuarine interactions WHOI
WHOI
WBNERR
S. Gallagher
R. Beardsley
C. Weidman
Trace elements in M. mercenariashells WHOI
WHOI
WHOI
WBNERR
A Rago
M. Charette
S. Thorrold
C. Weidman
N15 in M. mercenaria shells University Maine-Machias
WBNERR
R. Carmichael
C. Weidman
Monitoring changes in endangered coastal plain plant population: Agalinus, Liatris MA DFW
MA DFW
WBNERR
P. Somers
S. Brownback
B. Annett

 

External Projects
Project
Institution
Principle Contacts
Macroalgae and Nitrogen loading BUMP/MBL
BUMP/MBL
S. Fox
I. Valiela
The effects of N-loading on phytoplankton populations BUMP/MBL
BUMP/MBL
G. Tomasky
I. Valiela
Near-source atmospheric deposition as a nitrogen source to coastal lagoons Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University
B. Howarth
N. Bettez
E. Davidson
Geochemical transformations in subterranean estuaries: reactions, rates, and fluxes WHOI
WHOI
M. Charette
A. Mulligan
Mechanisms of dinitrogen production in coastal permeable sediments WHOI
WHOI
WHOI
WHOI
M. Charette
K. Kroeger
K. Casciotti
K. Edwards
Developing the concept of a coastal groundwater observatory WHOI
WHOI
M. Charette
A. Mulligan
Macroalgal blooms BUMP/MBL
BUMP/MBL
M. Teichberg
I. Valiela
Eelgrass dynamics BUMP/MBL
BUMP/MBL
Y. Olsen
I. Valiela
Mapping storm-driven nearshore sediment transport WHOI
WHOI
B. Raubenheimer
P. Shultz
Using seismic reflection to resolve the glacial history of Cape Cod, MA Boston CollegeM. Gruber
Body size variability of Spotted Salamanders across Massachusetts UMASS-Lowell
Oxbow Assoc.
S. Smyers
Eutrophication and seagrass assessment using a bio-optic approach NOAA-CCFHA
MA DEP
Smithsonian-ERC
W.J. Kenworthy
C. Costello
C. Gallegos
Coastal dune plant community structure UMASS-DartmouthT. Rajaniemi

 


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Research E-mail: Chris.Weidman@state.ma.us

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