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Research Publications
Maryland Sea Grant has funded scientific research relevant to the Chesapeake Bay and the Maryland residents who conserve, enjoy, and make their living from it. The funded projects advance scientific knowledge through the publication of peer-reviewed journal articles. You may search these publications by keyword and year of publication. Publications prior to 2003 can be accessed through the National Sea Grant Library.
Russ, E; Palinkas, C Evolving sediment dynamics due to anthropogenic processes in upper Chesapeake Bay Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 235 11210.1016/j.ecss.2020.106596. UM-SG-RS-2020-06.
Lapham, LL; Dallimore, SR; Magen, C; Henderson, LC; Powers, LC; Gonsior, M; Clark, B; Cote, M; Fraser, P; Orcutt, BN Microbial Greenhouse Gas Dynamics Associated With Warming Coastal Permafrost, Western Canadian Arctic Frontiers in Earth Science 8 10.3389/feart.2020.582103. UM-SG-RS-2020-22.
Hilderbrand, RH; Keller, SR; Laperriere, SM; Santoro, AE; Cessna, J; Trott, R Microbial communities can predict the ecological condition of headwater streams Plos One 158 10.1371/journal.pone.0236932. UM-SG-RS-2020-07.
Chapina, RJ; Rowe, CL; Woodland, RJ Metabolic rates of Neomysis americana (Smith, 1873) (Mysida: Mysidae) from a temperate estuary vary in response to summer temperature and salinity conditions Journal of Crustacean Biology 404 45045410.1093/jcbiol/ruaa031. UM-SG-RS-2020-23.
Michaelis, AK; Walton, WC; Webster, DW; Shaffer, LJ The role of ecosystem services in the decision to grow oysters: A Maryland case study Aquaculture 529 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2020.735633. UM-SG-RS-2020-08.
Sudol, TA; Noe, GB; Reed, DJ Tidal Wetland Resilience to Increased Rates of Sea Level Rise in the Chesapeake Bay: Introduction to the Special Feature Wetlands 406 1667167110.1007/s13157-020-01391-5. UM-SG-RS-2020-24.
Gleich, SJ; Plough, LV; Glibert, PM Photosynthetic efficiency and nutrient physiology of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana at three growth temperatures Marine Biology 1679 10.1007/s00227-020-03741-7. UM-SG-RS-2020-09.
Tully, KL; Weissman, D; Wyner, WJ; Miller, J; Jordan, T Soils in transition: saltwater intrusion alters soil chemistry in agricultural fields BIOGEOCHEMISTRY 1423 33935610.1007/s10533-019-00538-9. UM-SG-RS-2019-08.
Solomon, CM; Jackson, M; Glibert, PM Chesapeake Bay's "forgotten" Anacostia River: eutrophication and nutrient reduction measures Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 1915 11710.1007/s10661-019-7437-9. UM-SG-RS-2019-01.
Tizabi, D; Sosa, A; Bachvaroff, T; Hill, RT Draft Genome Sequences of Three Sponge-Associated Actinomycetes Exhibiting Antimycobacterial Activity Microbiology Resource Announcements 834 10.1128/MRA.00858-19. UM-SG-RS-2019-18.
Shen, XY; Su, YC; Liu, CC; Oscar, T; DePaola, A Efficacy of Vibrio parahaemolyticus depuration in oysters (Crassostrea gigas). Food Microbiology 79 354010.1016/j.fm.2018.10.005. UM-SG-RS-2019-02.
Zhao, Z; Gonsior, M; Schmitt-Kopplin, P; Zhan, YC; Zhang, R; Jiao, NZ; Chen, F Microbial transformation of virus-induced dissolved organic matter from picocyanobacteria: coupling of bacterial diversity and DOM chemodiversity ISME Journal 1310 2551256510.1038/s41396-019-0449-1. UM-SG-RS-2019-19.
Liljestrand, EM; Wilberg, MJ; Schueller, AM Estimation of movement and mortality of Atlantic menhaden during 1966-1969 using a Bayesian multi-state mark-recovery model. Fisheries Research 210 20421310.1016/j.fishres.2018.10.015. UM-SG-RS-2019-03.
Baker, ME; Schley, ML; Sexton, JO Impacts of Expanding Impervious Surface on Specific Conductance in Urbanizing Streams Water Resources Research 558 6482649810.1029/2019WR025014. UM-SG-RS-2019-09.
Scharping, RJ; Plough, LV; Meritt, DW; North, EW Low-salinity tolerance of early-stage oyster larvae from a mesohaline estuary Marine Ecology Progress Series 613 9710610.3354/meps12905. UM-SG-RS-2019-04.
Giese, E; Rockler, A; Shirmohammadi, A; Pavao-Zuckerman, MA Assessing Watershed-Scale Stormwater Green Infrastructure Response to Climate Change in Clarksburg, Maryland Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 14510 11310.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001099. UM-SG-RS-2019-17.
Liljestrand, EM; Wilberg, MJ; Schueller, AM Multi-state dead recovery mark-recovery model performance for estimating movement and mortality rates Fisheries Research 210 21422310.1016/j.fishres.2018.10.014. UM-SG-RS-2019-05.
He, K; Hain, E; Timm, A; Tarnowski, M; Blaney, L Occurrence of antibiotics, estrogenic hormones, and UV-filters in water, sediment, and oyster tissue from the Chesapeake Bay. Science of the Total Environment 650 3101310910.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.021. UM-SG-RS-2019-06.
Solomon, CM Urea uptake and urease activity in the Chesapeake Bay Journal of Marine Research 77 13916810.1357/002224019828474340. UM-SG-RS-2019-20.
Secor, DH; Zhang, F; O'Brien, MHP; Li, M Ocean destratification and fish evacuation caused by a Mid-Atlantic tropical storm. ICES Journal of Marine Science 762 57358410.1093/icesjms/fsx241. UM-SG-RS-2019-07.
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Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
