Chancellor Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
The Coastal Systems Group Website
Education
1974 | Rutgers University | B.A. |
1980 | Boston University | M.A. |
1984 | Boston University | Ph.D |
Research
Research activities
- $12.5 million Massachusetts Estuaries Project
- $1 million in related research funding in the fields of wetland restoration
- Enhancement of natural attenuation and benthic animals
Research
Research awards
- $ 21,547 awarded by Town of Yarmouth for Yarmouth Water Quality and Wastewater Planning Program
- $ 71,137 awarded by Sustainable Coastal Solutions, Inc. for St. Lucie and Indian River Lagoon: Technical Support for WQ Analyses to Evaluate Land Based Sources of Pollution
- $ 12,597 awarded by Town of West Tisbury for Mill Brook West Tisbury Water Quality Analysis and Technical Assistance
- $ 4,782 awarded by CDM Smith for CDM Sassaquin Water Quality Nutrient Analyses
- $ 260,947 awarded by Town of Mashpee for Comprehensive Study of Mashpee Wakeby Pond
Research
Research interests
- Restoration of estuarine nutrient related habitat quality
- Restoration of salt marshes through tidal enhancement and through Phragmites removal using natural biogeochemical cycles
- Groundwater nutrient transport & transformation from uplands to coastal waters
- Relationship between nutrient loading, algal production, oxygen levels and benthic communities in embayments
- Long-term impact of sea level rise on community structure of wetland ecosystems
Select publications
- Ramsey, J.S., H.E. Ruthven, S.W. Kelley and B.L. Howes (2007).
Quantifying the influence of inlet migration on tidal marsh system health
International Conference on Coastal Engineering, 1-14.
- Smith, M.P, B.L. Howes and J. Kimball (2007).
Watershed Planning: Securing our Water Future
Water: Managing a Finite Resource, 9, 121-133.
- Hamersley, M.R., and B.L. Howes (2005).
An evaluation of the N2 flux approach for measuring sediment denitrification
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 62, 711-723.
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