School for Marine Science & Technology at UMass Dartmouth

Earn your advanced marine science degree.

Complex marine science research starts with a single question: "Where do I start?" The answer? UMass Dartmouth's School for Marine Science & Technology.

Graduate degree options

Courses emphasize ocean technology, climate change, offshore wind development, & fisheries management and sustainability.

Course List

Cooperative research

Pursue coastal research with some of the most highly regarded oceanographic institutions as well as government and non-government organizations.

Collaborations

Financial aid

We may be able to help finance your education. Before you apply, contact SMAST faculty to learn about assistantships, fellowships, and scholarships.

Admissions & Aid

News

UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science and Technology receives grant to create new offshore wind graduate certificate program

The new program in Ocean Observing, Modeling, and Management of Offshore Wind will begin enrolling students in spring 2025

Events

Apr

8:00PM

Observatory Open House

Observatory Open House For updates on weather conditions please refer to www.assne.org

May

10:00AM

Department of Fisheries Oceanography MS Thesis Defense by Amanda Meli

SMAST East 101-103 and Via Zoom Abstract: A baseline assessment of crustacean has many applications, it can used to quantify organisms for comparisons throughout years, as a pilot study to determine best practices for abundance surveys, or to explore species distribution and aggregation. Windfarms and climate change have the potential to be major drivers of environmental change on the continental shelf. Estimating the absolute abundance, distribution, and preferences of these species will allow researchers, years from now, to quantify the environmental changes and discern population patterns. This baseline assessment discerned that hermit crabs were the most common crustacea in the survey, Atlantic rock crabs had the largest biomass, crustaceans aggregate at a wide range of distances in similar locations over time, and temperature, competitors, and sediment have the biggest influence in distribution.