2016 COI Projects
Quantifying Caffeine Produced by a Marine Diatom
Krista Longnecker, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
Inter-Disciplinary Shelfbreak Procesesses: Observations from the R/V Neil Armstrong
Glen Gawarkiewicz, Physical Oceanography
Daniel Torres, Physical Oceanography
Weifeng (Gordon) Zhang, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Biological Impacts of Novel, Persistent, Oxygenated Fractions of Petroleum on Sentinel Species in Estuarine Environments
Sibel I. Karchner, Biology
Ann Tarrant, Biology
Chris Reddy, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
Mark E. Hahn, Biology
Diel Oxygen Dynamics in Chesapeake Bay
Malcolm Scully, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Ecosystem Service Valuation in Coastal Urban Areas
Di Jin, Marine Policy Center
Hauke Kite-Powell, Marine Policy Center
2015 COI Projects
Remotely Determining Tidal Currents and Volumetric Discharge in New River Inlet, NC
Erika D. Johnson , Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Britt Raubenheimer , Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Effects of Estuarine Acidification on Bivalve Settlement
Lauren Mullineaux, Biology
Dan McCorkle, Geology & Geophysics
William Martin, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
2014 COI Projects
Modeling Vorticity Generated by Short Crested Breaking Waves
David Clark, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Understanding Impacts of Oyster Aquaculture on Sediment Nitrogen Cycling - Toward Meeting Community Water Quality Management Objectives
Ginny Edgcomb, Geology & Geophysics
Hauke Kite-Powell, Marine Policy Center
Determining the Sources of Sediment Delivered by the Fraser River to the Strait of Georgia
Bernhard P-Ehrenbrink, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
The application of metaproteomics to understand why Phaeocystis pouchetii is on the rise in Cape Cod Bay
Mak Saito, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
Sara Bender, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
2013 COI Projects
The Response of Mercury Species and Related Genes to Long‐term Fertilization in a New England Salt Marsh
Carl Lamborg, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
Tracy Mincer , Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
Can Old Plants Learn New Tricks? Testing the Adaptation Potential of Crustose Coralline Algae along a Natural Gradient in Ocean Acidification
Anne Cohen, Geology & Geophysics
Angela Helbling, Geology & Geophysics
2012 COI Projects
Using Sedimentary Deposits from Oxbow Lakes for Reconstructing Floods and Anthropogenic Impacts on the Mississippi Delta
Liviu Giosan, Geology & Geophysics Jeff Donnelly, Geology & Geophysics
Enabling coastal ocean ADCP-based turbulence measurements from a moving platform.
Anthony Kirincich, Physical Oceanography, Peter Traykovski, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Acidification of the Coastal Ocean: Are Deep Waters of the Gulf of Maine already Corrosive to Pteropods?
Zhaohui Aleck Wang, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry Gareth Lawson, Biology
2012 Harrison Foundation Projects
History of Eutrophication
Amanda Spivak, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Monitoring Cape Wind
Aran Mooney, Biology
2011 COI Projects
Exploring the Nitrogen Cycle in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Estuary
Valier Galy, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
Development of a broadband acoustic sonar system for simultaneous measurements of the temporal and spatial distribution of bubbles and surface wave height in the context of acoustic communication in shallow coastal waters
Andone Lavery, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Jim Preisig, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Continuous Measurement of the CO2 System in Waquoit Bay, a Coastal System with Groundwater Input
William Martin, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Developing Triple Oxygen Isotopes as a Tool for Quantifying Benthic Primary Production
Rachel H. R. Stanley, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
2010 Projects
Healthy Coastal Ecosystems: Are Sewage-Derived Steroidal Estrogens a Problem in Massachusetts Bay?
Elizabeth Kujawinski, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
An Interdisciplinary modeling of the New England Shelf Break
Weifeng Zhang, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Dennis McGillicuddy, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Glen Gawarkiewicz, Physical Oceanography
Modeling radium fate and transport in a subterranean estuary
Ann Mulligan, Marine Policy Center
Matthew Charette, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
Developing a Microfossil-based Approach to Estimate Paleo-Hurricane Intensity
Andrea Hawkes, Geology & Geophysics
Jeffrey Donnelly, Geology & Geophysics
2009 Projects
Monitoring Bluff Erosion on the Boston Harbor with Terrestrial Laser Scanning
Samuel Soule, Geology and Geophysics
Measuring Inner-Shelf Circulation at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) using a High-Frequency Radar System
Anthony Kirincich, Physical Oceanography
Establishing a Connecticut River Observatory
Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Zhaohui Wang, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Turbulence and Prey Field Properties of Gulf Stream Frontal Eddies on the Shelf Break
Louis St. Laurent, Physical Oceanography
2008 Projects
Establishing a portable, high-resolution shallow-water bathymetric capability
Dana Yoerger, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Peter Traykovski, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Deployment of a video plankton recorder at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory: Quantification of top-down controls on phytoplankton dynamics observed with Imaging
Heidi Sosik, Biology
Dennis McGillicuddy, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Scott Gallager, Biology
Open-ocean forcing in the South and East China Seas
Jiayan Yang, Physical Oceanography
Barrier response to sea-level rise
Andrew Ashton, Geology and Geophysics
Protists as reservoirs of human pathogens in coastal environments
Joan Bernhard, Geology and Geophysics
Becky Gast, Biology
Simultaneous measurement of larval behavior and turbulence in the laboratory
Lauren Mullineaux, Biology
Karl Helfrich, Physical Oceanography
Building an initiative focused on carbon export from continental shelves (New Initiative)
Glen Gawarkiewicz, Physical Oceanography
Jim Churchill, Physical Oceanography
Tim Eglinton, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Sonya Dyhrman, Biology
Dan Repeta, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
2007 Projects
Design of a Large-Volume Aerosol Auto-Sampler for the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory
Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Michael Purcell, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Long Term SODAR Wind Profile Measurements Over the Coastal Ocean
Eugene Terray, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Development of Tropical Cyclone Records from Coral Atoll and Fringing Lagoons: An Opportunity to Study Past Cyclone Activity in the Pacific
Jeffrey Donnelly, Geology and Geophysics
Mercury in Bays and Ponds of Cape Cod
Lamborg, Carl, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
William Martin, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
A Simple, General Model of Estuarine Plume Mixing
Ken Brink, Physical Oceanography
Geomicrobiology of an Anthropogenically Altered Subterranean Estuary
Karen Casciotti, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
A Coastal Ecosystem Research Initiative for the Northwest Atlantic (New Initiative)
Al Plueddemann, Physical Oceanography
John Trowbridge, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Heidi Sosik, Biology
By Date
2006 Projects
Exploring the feasibility of glider-based transport, stratification, and ecology measurements on the New England shelf between MVCO and Line W
Dave Fratantoni, Physical Oceanography
Heidi Sosik, Biology
John Trowbridge, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Construction of a double-grid turbulence tank for larval behavior studies
Lauren Mullineaux, Biology
Heidi Fuchs, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Sea-Level Changes in the Black Sea: Effects on Coastal and Shelf Architecture
Liviu Giosan, Geology & Geophysics
Development of a radon/methane/nitrate mapping system for a large scale assessment of submarine groundwater discharge and non-point source pollution in the coastal zone
Henrieta Dulaiova, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Matthew Charette, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Richard Camilli, Applied Ocean Physics Engineering
Investigation of Wave Energy Dissipation and Sediment Transport over a Rippled Seabed by Using Large-Eddy Simulation Driven by Field Data
Houshuo Jiang, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Peter Traykovski, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Quantifying cross-shelf exchange in the Hudson Shelf Valley. Is the Hudson Shelf Valley a nutrient pump?
Steve Lentz, Physical Oceanography
Coastal Ecosystem Research in the Northwest Atlantic (New Initiative)
Al Plueddemann,Physical Oceanography
John Trowbridge, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Heidi Sosik, Biology
Development of a National Program on Coastal Dynamics Research (New Initiative)
Robert Evans, Geology & Geophysics Rocky Geyer, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
By Date
2005 Projects
A New Differential Pressure Data Logger for Measuring Fluid Flux Across the Sediment-Water Interface Exchange
Anne Mulligan, Marine Policy Center
Alan Gardner, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Data Assimilative Interdisciplinary Modeling of the Adjacent Coastal Waters of the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory
Ruoying He, Applied Ocean Physics Engineering
The Influence of Dissolved Organic Phosphorus on Phytoplankton Blooms in Coastal Systems
Sonya Dyhrman, Biology
Field Testing of "Imaging FlowCytobot" at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory
Robert Olson, Biology
The Dynamic Land/Sea Margin: Links between Climate Change, Permafrost Stability and Terrestrial Organic Carbon Export from the Mackenzie River, Canadian Arctic Exchange
Timothy Eglinton, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Wintertime Watermass Evolution on the Outer Cape Cod Shelf
Glen Gawarkiewicz, Physical Oceanography
By Date
2004 Projects
Validation of the Use of Heat as a Proxy Tracer for Gases in Air-Sea Exchange
Nelson Frew, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department
Developing Annual Estimates of the Economic Consequences of Shoreline Change in the United States
Porter Hoagland, Di Jin, Marine Policy Center
Robert Evans, Geology & Geophysics Department
Hauke Kite-Powell, Marine Policy Center
A Collaborative Microbiological and Organic Geochemical Study of Dissolved Organic Carbon Cycling in the Coastal Ocean
Daniel Repeta and Benjamin Van Mooy
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department
The Influence of Tidal Pumping on Denitrification in Waquoit Bay Sediments
Daniel McCorkle, Geology and Geophysics Department
Developing the Concept of a Coastal Groundwater Observatory
Matthew Charrette, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
Ann Mulligan, Marine Policy Center
Airborne LIDAR Mapping of Dispersion and Mixing in the Coastal Ocean
James Ledwell and Eugene Terray
Applied Ocean Physics Engineering Department
By Date
2003 Projects
The nature and extent of the Upper Cape Cod groundwater aquifer beneath Falmouth and Nantucket Sound
Stephen A. Swift, Geology & Geophysics
Ann Mulligan, Marine Policy Center
A Little Nitrate Factory: Geochemical Consequences of Advective Downwelling in Nearshore Coastal Marine
Daniel McCorkle, Geology and Geophysics
Temporal Variation in Larval Supply Relative to Turbulence in a Tidal Inlet
Heidi L. Fuchs and Lauren S. Mullineaux Biology Department
Assessing the Potential of Shellfish Aquaculture as a Means of Mitigate the Effects of Excess Nutrients in Coastal Waters
Hauke Kite-Powell, Di Jin and Porter Hoagland Marine Policy Center
Field Measurements of 2d Flows and Shoreline Changes in the Inner Surf and Swash Zones
Timothy Maddux and Britt Raubenheimer Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department
Extending the Documentary Records of Shoreline Change for Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket
Ilya Buynevich and Rob Evans Geology and Geophysics
Reconstructing Shoreline Changes in Danube Delta
Liviu Giosan and Jeffrey Donnelly Geology & Geophysics
By Date
2002 Projects
Why Does Oil Continue to Persist in West Falmouth Harbor Sediments?
Christopher Reddy, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Carl Wirsen, Biology
Evaluating the Flux Footprint for Measurements of Carbon Dioxide Exchange over the Coastal Ocean
John Dacey, Biology
James Edson and Wade McGillis, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
An Isotopic Tracer Investigation of Organic Nitrogen Cycling Within the Subterranean Estuary and Groundwater Seepage face
Kevin Kroeger and Matthew Charette Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Submarine Groundwater Discharge: Identification and Quantification via Remote Sensing, Hydrologic Sampling, and Geochemical Tracers
Ann Mulligan, Marine Policy Center Matthew Charette, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
High-Resolution Geophysical Imaging of Coastal Aquifers: Does Geological Framework Control Groundwater Discharge?
Robert Evans, Geology and Geophysics
Ilya Buynevich, Geology and Geophysics
Wind-Driven Shelf/Basin Exchange on a Broad Arctic Shelf: The Joint Roles of Ice Cover Extent and Shelfbreak Bathymetry
David Chapman, Physical Oceanography
By Date
2001 Projects
Rationalizing Nutrient Control in the Coastal Ocean: The Importance of Scientific Research
Di Jin, Marine Policy Center
Porter Hoagland, Marine Policy Center
A Census of Warm, Salty Intrusions From Georges Bank to Cape Hatteras
Steven J. Lentz, Physical Oceanography
Investigating the Effect of Sediment Resuspension on Anthropogenic Metal Transport in Massachusetts Bay
William R. Martin, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Groundwater Discharge into North Carolina Estuaries: A Time-Series Comparison of Radiocarbon-Based and Radium-Based Geochemical Estimates
Daniel McCorkle ,Geology and Geophysics
Matthew A. Charette, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Genomic Approaches to Assessing the Global Impact of Marine Pollution
John Stegeman and Mark Hahn, Biology
Dynamics and Microbiology of Coastal Marine Carbon Monoxide Bio-Oxidation
Craig D. Taylor, Biology
John D. Tolli, Biology
Semiconductor Sensors: Faster, Cheaper, Better for the Trace Gas Biogeochemistry in High-Spatiotemporal Variability Coastal Environments? A Scientific -Technical Reconnaissance
Oliver Zafiriou, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
By Date
2000 Projects
Implementatioin of an Atmospheric Mesoscale Model in the Gulf of Maine
Michael Caruso, Physical Oceanography
Eutrophication in Waquoit Bay: Effects on Visual Predation
Laurence Madin, Biology
Sonke Johnsen, Biology
Using Electrical Resistivity to Map Fresh Water Discharge: a Survey Near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
Robert Evans, Geology and Geophysics
Surface Processes Controlling Aquatic-Atmospheric Gas Transfer in Estuarine Systems
Eugene Terray, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Wade McGillis, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Christopher Zappa, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Radiocarbon Analysis of 16S rRNA from Environmental Samples: A New Approach to Isotopic Biochemistry with Applications to Coastal Systems
Katrina Edwards, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
John Hayes, Geology and Geophysics
Andreas Teske, Biology
By Date
1999 Projects
Tritium/helium Studies of Groundwater Discharge in Coastal Environments
Daniel McCorkle, Geology and Geophysics
Dempsey Lott, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Demonstrating a New Tool to Study Coastal Marine Mammals: Source Levels, Directionality, and Signature Information in Killer Whale Calls
Peter Tyack, Biology
Patrick Miller, Biology
New Approaches to Detecting Developmental Toxicity in Estuarine Fishes
John Stegeman, Biology
Assessing Genetic Subdivision in the Ocean Quahog (Arctica islandica)
Ken Halanych, Biology
Physiological Consequences of Multiple Environmental Stresses to Estuarine Fish: Dioxin-like Compounds and Hypoxia
Wade Powell, Biology
Mark Hahn, Biology
An Investigation of the Seasonal Variability in Trace Metal Cycling in Pristine and Contaminated Buzzards Bay Sediments
Roger François, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Microbial Degradation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Marine Coastal Sediments: An Isotopic Investigation
Timothy Eglinton, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Christopher Reddy, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Carl Wirsen, Biology
A History of Paleo-Hurricane Activity Recorded in the Stable Isotope Composition of Coral Skeleton
Anne Cohen, Geology and Geophysics
Graham Layne, Geology and Geophysics
By Date
1998 Projects
Demographic Models for the North Atlantic Right Whale
Hal Caswell, Biology
Larvae accumulation and transport by internal bores: an experimental study
Jesús Pineda, Biology
Karl Helfrich, Physical Oceanography
Investigating Submarine Groundwater Discharge to Coastal Waters Using Radium Isotopes
Ken Buesseler, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Matt Charette, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Charles Harvey, MIT-Parsons Lab
Chemical and Molecular Biological Characterization of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen in the Coastal Zone
Daniel Repeta, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Surface Exposure Dating in the Coastal Zone
Mark Kurz, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Neal Driscoll, Geology and Geophysics
By Date
1997 Projects
Radiocarbon Content of Ground Water and Submarine Ground Water Discharge in the South Atlantic Bight: An Initial Survey
Daniel McCorkle, Geology & Geophysics
Creation of a Digital Database for US East Coast Lightship Oceanic and Atmospheric Records
Christopher Weidman, Geology and Geophysics
Steven Lentz, Physical Oceanography
John Hayes, Geology and Geophysics
Direct Measurement of Bottom Stress in the Wind- and Wave-forced Nearshore Environment
John Trowbridge, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Use of Trace Elements in the Larval Shell as a Health Marker of Bivalve Dispersal
Lauren Mullineaux, Biology
Stanley R. Hart, Geology and Geophysics
Bioaccumulation of trace metals by phytoplankton in heavily impacted harbors and their relationship to ecological assessment
Jim Moffett, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Michael Twiss, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Health Assessment of the Northern Right Whale
Michael Moore, Biology
By Date
1996 Projects
The Relationship between Macrofaunal Abundance and Composition, Particle Mixing, and Sediment Irrigation: In Situ Experiments in Buzzards Bay
William Martin,
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Robert Wheatcroft, Oregon State University
Physical Forcing of Phytoplankton Population Abundance in the Western Gulf of Maine
Dennis McGillicuddy, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Metal Chemistry in Coastal Waters and its Relationship to Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfe
Jim Moffett, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry