faculty

Steven Lohrenz, PhD

Professor

508-910-6550

School for Marine Science & Technology West, New Bedford 112A

1985

Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

PhD

1978

University of Oregon

PI, “An Integrated Terrestrial-Coastal Ocean Observation and Modeling Framework for Carbon Management Decision Support" (collaborative project with Auburn University, University of Delaware, and North Carolina State University) NASA, $1.2M over three years ($228K to UMass Dartmouth)
PI, “Research and Education in Quantitative Fisheries and Ecosystem Science,” NOAA (subaward through the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), $360K over three years
PI, " Collaborative Research: A RAPID response to Hurricane Harvey's impacts on coastal carbon cycle, metabolic balance and ocean acidification", (collaborative project with Univ. Delaware, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, and Dauphin Island Sea Lab), NSF, $34,232 over one year

$ 261,402 awarded by UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST for Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW)
$ 50,000 awarded by NP Photonics, Inc. for Atmospheric Aerosol Model and Data Collection Over the Marine Boundary Layer for Imaging/Radiofrequency (RF) and Laser Beam Propagation
$ 47,454 awarded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin for Development of Remote Sensing Water Quality Indices in Inland and Coastal Waters (2022-2023 Sea Grant OMNIBUS)
$ 811,936 awarded by MASSACHUSETTS TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATIVE for The Marine and Environmental Testing Laboratory

Biological distributions and productivity
Cycling of carbon and nutrients in coastal and ocean waters using ship-based measurements and optical and remotely sensed observations
Characterization of land-ocean interactions using coupled ecosystem models to assess impacts of climate and land use change
Optical assessment of air-sea carbon fluxes in river-dominated margins
Optical detection and assessment of harmful algal blooms

Harringmeyer, J. P., N. Ghosh, M. W. Weiser, D. R. Thompson, M. Simard, S. E. Lohrenz, and C. G. Fichot (2024).
A hyperspectral view of the nearshore Mississippi River Delta: Characterizing suspended particles in coastal wetlands using imaging spectroscopy
Remote Sensing of Environment, 301, 113943.
Bian, Z., H. Tian, S. Pan, H. Shi, C. Lu, C. Anderson, W.-J. Cai, C. Hopkinson, D. Justic, L. Kalin, S. Lohrenz, S. McNulty, J. Melillo, N. Pan, G. Sun, Z. Wang, Y. Yao, Y. You (2023).
Soil legacy nutrients decrease the stoichiometric ratio of N and P loading from the Mississippi River Basin
Global Change Biology, 29, 7145-7158.
Verma, N., S. Lohrenz, S. Chakraborty and C. G. Fichot (2021).
Underway Hyperspectral Bio-Optical Assessments of Phytoplankton Size Classes in the River-Influenced Northern Gulf of Mexico
Remote Sensing, 13, 3346.
Lohrenz, S. E., W. J. Cai, S. Chakraborty, W. J. Huang, X. Guo, R. He, Z. Xue, K. Fennel, S. Howden, and H. Tia (2018).
Satellite estimation of coastal pCO2 and air-sea flux of carbon dioxide in the northern Gulf of Mexico
Remote Sensing of Environment, 207, 71-83.