Staff Directory

Director's Office

Fredrika Moser, Director
Phone: (301) 405-7500
Email: moser@mdsg.umd.edu

Research & Administration

Michael Allen, Associate Director for Research & Administration
Phone: (301) 405-6372
Email: mallen@mdsg.umd.edu

Jenna Clark, Senior Program Manager
Phone: (301) 405-6375
Email: clark@mdsg.umd.edu

Jeannette Connors, Personnel and Travel Coordinator and National Marine Educators Association (NMEA) National Office Manager
Phone: (301) 405-6376
Email: connors@mdsg.umd.edu

Hannah Cooper, Science Management and Policy Intern
Phone: (301) 405-7500
Email: hrcooper@mdsg.umd.edu

Kim Cox, Business Manager
Phone: (301) 405-8194
Email: cox@mdsg.umd.edu

Maurice Crawford, RAMP-UP Coordinator
Email: mkcraw9@mdsg.umd.edu

Paola Mejia, Graduate Assistant
Email: pmejia1@students.towson.edu

Annie Schatz, Aquaculture Projects Coordinator
Email: kschatz@mdsg.umd.edu

Anita Shelton, Program Administrative Specialist
Phone: (301) 405-1269
Email: ashelton@mdsg.umd.edu

Ana Sosa, Proposal and Reporting Coordinator
Email: asosamor@mdsg.umd.edu

Taryn Sudol, Coastal Resilience Coordinator
Phone: (301) 405-6378
Email: sudol@mdsg.umd.edu

Education

Chris Flight, Professional Development and Aquaculture Education Coordinator
Phone: (301) 405-7500
Email: cflight@mdsg.umd.edu

J. Adam Frederick, Assistant Director for Education and National Marine Educators Association (NMEA) National Office Coordinator
Phone: (410) 234-8850
Email: frederic@mdsg.umd.edu

Communications

Ashley Goetz, Science Writer and Digital Specialist
Phone: (301) 405-5785
Email: goetza@mdsg.umd.edu

Madeleine Jepsen, Science Writer and Digital Specialist
Phone: (301) 405-6380
Email: mjepsen@mdsg.umd.edu

Annalise Kenney, Assistant Director of Communications
Email: akenney@mdsg.umd.edu

Manal Murangi, Aquaculture and Coastal Resilience Science Communicator

Information Technology

Kevin Bruce, Information Technology Coordinator
Phone: (301) 405-6383
Email: bruce@mdsg.umd.edu

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News and Blogs

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Video Gallery

Sea Grant Film Explores a Diminishing Smithville

Smithville is a community on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, on the edge of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. A century ago, Smithville had more than 100 residents. Today, it has four, in two homes: an elderly couple, and one elderly woman and her son, who cares for her.

Featured Fellow

Leone Yisrael

Leone Yisrael is a cephalopod-loving scuba diver, cook, and loves to try new activities. She conducts genetic analysis and fieldwork at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center through the Coastal Disease Ecology Lab.

Exploring the Use of Benthic Microbial Fuel Cells to Remove Sulfide While Harvesting Energy from Oyster Aquaculture Biodeposits

Oyster aquaculture is a rapidly growing industry in Maryland’s Chesapeake waters which stimulates economic activity and may provide a host of ecosystem benefits. A potential concern associated with the intensification of the oyster aquaculture is the local production and accumulation of oyster biodeposits, which can lead to a porewater sulfide accumulation and declining bioturbation, symptoms of declining ecosystem function. Sulfide is naturally removed from the seafloor by the interactions between bioturbating infauna and sulfide oxidizing bacteria.

The Blue Crab: Callinectes Sapidus

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