SYMPOSIUM AGENDA

1 p.m.

Welcome from Mark Abbott, President and Director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

Remarks by U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-Mass.

Overview of the Woods Hole Sea Grant Program (Jennie Rheuban, Research Coordinator)

1:20 – 3 p.m.

Presentations of research results from 2018-2020 Woods Hole Sea Grant funded projects

• Mark Hahn (WHOI) and Chris Reddy (WHOI) - Halogenated Marine Natural Products: A Potential Risk to Human Health?
• Di Jin (WHOI), Porter Hoagland (WHOI), and Hauke Kite-Powell (WHOI) - Valuation of Ecosystem Benefits of Living Shorelines
• Justin Suca (MIT/WHOI), Joel Llopiz (WHOI), Rubao Ji (WHOI), Martha Hauff (Stonehill College), and Hannes Baumann (University of Connecticut) - Source-sink dynamics and habitat requirements of northern sand lance in the Gulf of Maine
• Chris Neill (Woods Hole Research Center), Casey Kennedy (US Department of Agriculture), and Rachel Jakuba (Buzzards Bay Coalition) – A watershed scale analysis of nitrogen loading from cranberry agriculture in the Weweantic watershed of southeastern Massachusetts
• Sheron Luk (MIT/WHOI), Amanda Spivak (University of Georgia) - Pond management and carbon storage in salt marshes
• Jeff Turner (UMASS – Dartmouth) - Harmful Phytoplankton Blooms in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

2:45 - 3 p.m. BREAK

3:00 – 4:25

Presentations of research projects and projects funded for 2020-2022

• Steve Elgar (WHOI) and Britt Raubenheimer (WHOI) – Shoreline Resilience (remote presentation)
• Adrian Jordaan (UMASS – Amherst), Michelle Staudinger (UMASS – Amherst), and Allison Roy (UMASS - Amherst) - Closing the loop: characterizing habitat requirements, movements, and life stage linkages of river herring in Massachusetts watersheds
• Jordan Pitt (MIT/WHOI), Neel Aluru (WHOI), and Mark Hahn (WHOI) - Microplastics in Coastal Marine Animals: Defining the Problem
• Scott Gallager (WHOI) and Jim Churchill (WHOI) - Assessing the Seasonal and Storm-Impacted Transport and Biological Fate of Micro- and Nanoplastics Discharged from Wastewater Treatment Facilities into Massachusetts Coastal Waters
• Jennifer Jackman (Salem State), Owen Nichols (Center for Coastal Studies), Lisa Sette (Center for Coastal Studies), Stephanie Wood (UMASS – Boston), George Maynard (Cape Cod Fishermen's Alliance), Cynthia Wigren (Atlantic White Shark Conservancy), Marianne Long (Atlantic White Shark Conservancy), Megan Winton (Atlantic White Shark Conservancy), Allen Rutberg (Tufts University) - Human Dimensions of Rebounding Populations of Seals and White Sharks on Cape Cod, MA
• Marianne Long (Atlantic White Shark Conservancy) and Megan Winton (Atlantic White Shark Conservancy) - Understanding the Rewilding of Cape Cod: A curriculum unit for middle school learners
• Megan Winton (Atlantic White Shark Conservancy) and Greg Skomal (MADMF) - Development and testing of a near real-time white shark forecast system for Cape Cod, Massachusetts

4:25 – 4:30

Closing statements (Matt Charette, Director, Woods Hole Sea Grant)