Education

Teaching

• Satellite Oceanography
• Phytoplankton Ecology
• Aquatic Optics

Research

Research activities

• 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

Research

Research awards

• $ 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

Research

Research interests

• 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

Select publications

• 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.
  

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