Education

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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