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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.
Yeates, AG; Grace, JB; Olker, J; Guntenspergen, GR; Cahoon, DR; Adamowicz, S; Anisfeld, SC; Barrett, N; Benzecry, A; Blum, L; Christian, RR; Grzyb, J; Hartig, EK; Leo, KH; Lerberg, S; Lynch, JC; Maher, N; Megonigal, JP; Reay, W; Siok, D; Starke, A; Turner, V; Warren, S Hurricane Sandy Effects on Coastal Marsh Elevation Change Estuaries and Coasts 437 1640165710.1007/s12237-020-00758-5. UM-SG-RS-2020-12.
Laperriere, SM; Hilderbrand, RH; Keller, S; Trott, R; Santoro, AE Headwater Stream Microbial Diversity and Function across Agricultural and Urban Land Use Gradients Applied and Environmental Microbiology 8611 10.1128/AEM.00018-20. UM-SG-RS-2020-13.
Fowler, AE; Blakeslee, AMH; Canning-Clode, J; Repetto, MF; Ruiz, GM; Miller, AW A baitbox for all seasons: temporal shifts in a vector's propagule supply characteristics and implications for invasion ecology Marine Ecology Progress Series 641 132410.3354/meps13303. UM-SG-RS-2020-14.
Shannon Hood, Matt Parker, Don Webster Biofouling Control Strategies: A Field Guide for Maryland Oyster Growers . UM-SG-RS-2021-04.
Porter, ET; Robins, E; Davis, S; Lacouture, R; Cornwell, JC Effects of resuspension of eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica biodeposits on phytoplankton community structure Marine Ecology Progress Series 640 7910510.3354/meps13277. UM-SG-RS-2020-15.
Chang, AL; Carlton, JT; Brown, CW; Ruiz, GM Down the up staircase: Equatorward march of a cold-water ascidian and broader implications for invasion ecology Diversity and Distributions 267 88189610.1111/ddi.13055. UM-SG-RS-2020-16.
Kraskura, K; Nelson, JA Hypoxia tolerance is unrelated to swimming metabolism of wild, juvenile striped bass (Morone saxatilis) Journal of Experimental Biology 2235 10.1242/jeb.217125. UM-SG-RS-2020-17.
Solomon, CM; Jackson, M; Glibert, PM Chesapeake Bay's "forgotten" Anacostia River: eutrophication and nutrient reduction measures ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 1915 10.1007/s10661-019-7437-9. UM-SG-RS-2019-01.
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.
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.
Glandon, HL; Paynter, KT; Rowe, CL; Miller, TJ Resilience of Oxygen Consumption Rates in the Juvenile Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus to Future Predicted Increases in Environmental Temperature and pCO2 in the Mesohaline Chesapeake Bay. Journal of Shellfish Research 383 71172310.2983/035.038.0323. UM-SG-RS-2019-10.
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.
Glandon, HL; Kilbourne, KH; Miller, TJ Winter is (not) coming: Warming temperatures will affect the overwinter behavior and survival of blue crab. PLOS ONE 147 11310.1371/journal.pone.0219555. UM-SG-RS-2019-11.
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.
Hornick, KM; Plough, LV Tracking genetic diversity in a large-scale oyster restoration program: effects of hatchery propagation and initial characterization of diversity on restored vs. wild reefs. Heredity 1232 9210510.1038/s41437-019-0202-6. UM-SG-RS-2019-12.
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.
Lu, M; Herbert, ER; Langley, JA; Kirwan, ML; Megonigal, JP Nitrogen status regulates morphological adaptation of marsh plants to elevated CO2. Nature Climate Change 910 76476810.1038/s41558-019-0582-x. UM-SG-RS-2019-13.
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.
Nelson, JA; Kraskura, K; Lipkey, GK Repeatability of Hypoxia Tolerance of Individual Juvenile Striped Bass Morone saxatilis and Effects of Social Status. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 924 39640710.1086/704010. UM-SG-RS-2019-14.
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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Featured Fellow
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.
