Spotlight

Alexandria's research aims to enhance techniques used to monitor coastal restoration efforts in both temperate salt marshes and tropical mangrove forests.

Aubrey Dissinger's current research focuses on the effects of soybean meal based diets on the intestinal health of fish and methods of mitigating diet-induced inflammation.

Using acoustic telemetry, stomach contents analyses, and metrics of marine biodiversity, my research investigates what the diets and movements of two iconic top consumers—Atlantic cod and striped bass—might tell us about ecosystem dynamics in coastal New England.

This study will provide baseline data as well as an experiment on ambient levels of MP in estuarine waters and representative living resources of Great Bay and Casco Bay Estuaries.

Selina's research will collaborate with local shellfish farmers to use DIY technologies to measure oyster behavioral responses and improve aquaculture outcomes.

Gabrielle's research focuses on microplastics in estuarine sediments, specifically how microplastic abundance and type vary between multiple estuarine habitats.

Madison's research focuses on a geographically extensive and dense, weeks-long bloom of the dinoflagellate, Tripos muelleri that occurred throughout the GoME in summer 2023.

Marley's research aims to determine the variability of the phytoplankton community in Great Bay and to understand how this variation can impact the food web. 

Ryan Adams is trying to understand the degree of upstream passage through historical dam sites and other barriers to migration.

Hannah' is examining on how changes in climate will alter interactions between commercially valuable shellfish and phytoplankton that cause harmful algal blooms.

Marjorie Mednikova is a wetland ecologist researching salt marsh restoration throughout New England.

Sandesh Lamichhane's research focuses the effect of acoustic and structural forest habitat quality on moose occupancy in New Hampshire.