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Research Projects
Biology
Auster,
Peter
- Title: Deep Atlantic Stepping Stones:
Linking the New England Seamounts to the Mid-Atlantic
Ridge
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Ocean Exploration
- Title: Landscape Ecology of Slope
Fishes
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service
- Title: Seafloor Habitat Recovery
and Monitoring Project
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, National Marine Sanctuaries Program
- Title: A Web-based Tour of the Diversity
of Habitats and Marine life in Long Island Sound
Sponsor: Connecticut Department of
Environmental Protection, Long Island Sound Fund
Bucklin, Ann
- Title: Time/space patterns of microsatellite
DNA variation in relation to patch structure of Southern
Ocean krill, Euphausia superba
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
/ Office of Polar Programs
- Title: U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank
Study, Phase IV (Synthesis); distribution and abundance
of cryptic copepod species using SS-PCR
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Title: Census of Marine Zooplankton
(CMarZ); a global survey of holozooplankton biodiversity
with molecular systematic analysis
Sponsor: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Dam,
G. Hans
- Title: ECOHAB: Linking food web
structure, grazer toxin resistance and ecological stoichiometry
in understanding harmful algal blooms (with G. McManus
& P. Kremer)
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency
- Title: A synthesis of water quality
and planktonic resource monitoring data for Long Island
Sound (with J. O'Donnell)
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency
- Title: LISICOS: The Long Island
Sound Integrated Coastal Observing System (with W. Bohlen
and J. O'Donnell)
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
- Title: Trophic role of zooplankton
on the Brazilian Continental shelf (with G. McManus)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Dierssen,
Heidi
- Title: Differentiating sources of
backscattering in the Southern Ocean to improve remote
carbon pool assessments: calcite, bubbles and other
optical constituents
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
- Title: Benthic Ecology from Space:
Algorithms for Remote Sensing of Seagrass Primary Production
from the MODIS Ocean Color Sensor
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
- Title: Measurement and analysis
of inherent optical properties (IOPs) to enhance coastal
ocean color calibration and validation capabilities
Sponsor:National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, Subcontract from WET Labs
- Title: Benthic Productivity Studies
in Support of GOES-R Risk Reduction Activities
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Kremer,
Jim
- Title: Eelgrass habitat and ecosystem
metabolism in relation to nitrogen loading in shallow
embayments and estuaries of Long Island Sound
Sponsor: Connecticut Department of
Environmental Protection, Non-point source pollution
initiative
- Title: LISICOS: Toward a Long Island
Sound Integrated Coastal Observing System Linking Science
Policy and the Public to LIS
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
- Title: A biological-physical numerical
simulation model for the investigation, prediction,
and management of pelagic oxygen and consumption in
Long Island Sound: Data analysis and model formulation
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency
/ Connecticut Sea Grant
- Title: Modeling tools to understand
and manage hypoxia: Application to Narragansett Bay
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency,
Hypoxia program
Lin,
Senjie
- Title: Constructing a robust multi-gene
phylogeny and studying host and plastid evolution in
the alveolate protist dinoflagellata
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Title: Collaborative Research: Development
of phytoplankton PCNA antibodies for use in growth studies:
Emiliania huxleyi and Karlodinium micrum as model systems
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Title: ECOHAB: Development of PCR
and immunofluorescence methods to measure HAB cell concentration
and cell division rate: Karlodinium micrum as a model
system
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
- Title: Sequencing the sodium channel
in the American lobster (with H. Dam)
Sponsor: Connecticut Sea Grant
McManus,
George
- Title: Diversity and biogeography
of marine oligotrich and choreotrich ciliates
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Title: Development of an oligotrich
ciliate as a food organism for marine aquaculture
Sponsor: Connecticut Sea Grant
- Title: Monitoring Mesozooplankton
and Microzooplankton in Long Island Sound, National
Coastal Assessment
Sponsor: Connecticut Department of
Environmental Protection
- Title: Foodweb Support for the Threatened
Delta Smelt and other Estuarine Species in Suisun Bay
and the Western Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Sponsor: CALFED Bay-Delta Program
Shumway,
Sandy
- Title: ECOHAB: Assessment of the
potential for introduction of harmful algal bloom (HAB)
species via shellfish transport
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency
Ward,
J. Evan
- Title: Collaborative Research:
Linking marine pathogens to molluscan shellfish: The
ecological role of marine aggregates
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
/ National Institutes of Health
- Title: Functional mechanisms of
control in the bivalve pump: An experimental approach
to resolve current controversy (with S. Shumway)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Title: ECOHAB: Effects of Aureococcus
anophagefferens brown tides in coastal lagoonal systems:
Coupling numerical simulation modeling with field and
laboratory studies to determine population effects on
the hard clam Mercenaria mercenaria
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Chemistry
Fitzgerald,
William
- Title: Biogeochemical cycling and
fate of mercury and methylmercury in Arctic Alaskan
lakes
Sponsor: National Science Foundation,
Office of Polar Programs
- Title: Natural and anthropogenic
sources of mercury to the atmosphere: Global and regional
contributions
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency,
Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program
- Title: A synthesis and assessment
of modern and historic heavy metal contamination in
New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary, with emphasis on
mercury and cadmium (with R. Mason)
Sponsor: Hudson River Foundation
- Title: LISICOS: The Long Island Sound
integrated coastal observing system (with H. Dam, J.
O'Donnell, and W. Bohlen); Benthic chambers: sediment
oxygen demand, metals fluxes, nutrient fluxes
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Mason,
Robert
- Title: Investigating the importance
of the coastal zone as a source of methylmercury to
the ocean
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Title: Metaalicus: A whole-watershed,
stable isotope study of the microbial mechanisms of
net methylmercury production
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Title: Evaluation of mercury transformation
and trophic transfer in the San Francisco Bay/Delta:
Identifying critical processes for the Ecosystem Restoration
Program
Sponsor: CALFED Ecosystem Restoration
Program
- Title: Mercury in the atmosphere
in Bermuda
Sponsor: Bermuda Biological Station
/ Bermuda Government
Skoog,
Annelie
- Title: Hydroxyl radicals in marine
sediments
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Title: Cavitation-induced organic
matter modifications in marine surface waters.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Title: Collaborative Research: Aqueous
organic compounds in shallow marine hydrothermal systems:
a frame work for investigating heterotrophy at high
temperatures.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Torgersen,
Thomas
- Title: Air-derived noble gases in
sediments: implications for basin scale hydrogeology.
Sponsor: Department of Energy
- Title: Scientific Drilling/San Andreas
Fault: fluid transport analysis – rare gas “ages”
of matrix porosity fluids in drill core.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Visscher,
Pieter
- Title: Biocomplexity: Interactions
between microbes, minerals and the environment in stromatolites:
a three billion year old ecosystem
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Title: Mechanisms of Calcium Carbonate
Precipitation and Dissolution: Microbial Processes,
Metabolic Processes and Mineral Products
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Title: Biosignatures in Chemosynthetic
and Photosynthetic Systems
Sponsor: NASA Astrobiology
- Title: Microbial Observatories:
Cabo Rojo Salterns Microbial Observatory
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Vlahos,
Penny
- Title: Hydroxyl radicals in marine
sediments
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Title: Cavitation-induced organic
matter modifications in marine surface waters.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Title: Long Island Sound Coastal
Observation System (LISICOS).
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Physics
Dierssen,
Heidi
- Title: The back scattering enigma
in natural waters: Experimental and theoretical studies
of particles in the ocean
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research,
Optics and Biology
- Title: Optical properties and remote
sensing of Long Island Sound: Using color to estimate
chlorophyll, colored dissolved organic matter, and sediment
concentrations
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Office of Naval Research
Edson,
James
- Title: The Couple Boundary Layers/Air-Sea
Transfer (CBLAST) DRI Program
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research,
Optics and Biology
- Title: Collaborative Research: Ocean
horizontal array turbulence study: An investigation
of subfilter-scale fluxes in the marine surface layer
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Title: Air-sea interaction in the 18 degree C water formation area - A component of the collaborative research project CLIMODE
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
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