SMAST showcases research at 12th Annual Working Waterfront Festival

School for Marine Science and Technology faculty and students educate festival goers

Funds awarded for “Sustainable Seafood Collaboratory” project

School for Marine Science and Technology Professors Cynthia Pilskaln and Brian Howes awarded grant for project focusing on shellfish health and development

Judith Rosellon-Druker awarded $500 for excellence in doctoral research

Judith Rosellon-Druker has been selected to receive an American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists (AIFRB) Clark Hubbs Research Assistance Award in the amount of $500 for excellence in graduate-level research.

NOAA Fisheries awards SMAST researchers more than $950,000 in Saltonstall-Kennedy grants‌

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded SMAST $956,000 under the 2014-2015 Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program for six projects that help build and maintain sustainable fisheries.

SMAST to study new toxic invader

WHOI/MIT Sea Grant has awarded Prof. Jefferson Turner $150,000 to study the toxic dinoflagellate Cochlodinium polykrikoides

Students weigh in on international fisheries management‌‌

Since 2009, SMAST students have been participating directly in international fisheries science and management through the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES).

NOAA grants to support scallop survey/bycatch avoidance‌

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded $534,660 to SMAST for research to benefit the sea scallop fishery, $373,922 to support “Broadscale Video Survey of Georges Bank Scallop Open Areas” (Prof. Kevin Stokesbury, PI), and $160,738 to fund “Scallop Fishery Bycatch Avoidance System 2015” (Dr. Catherine O’Keefe, PI).

Ana Paula Krelling: first PhD graduate of SMAST & IOUSP

Ana Paula Krelling is the first first dual-degree Ph.D. graduate of UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science (SMAST) and the University of São Paulo Institute of Oceanography (IOUSP).

Camille David: The effects of sea level rise

Camille David earned his PhD in Marine Sciences/Coastal Systems Science at SMAST.

Catherine O'Keefe: Focus on sea scallop fishery

Catherine O'Keefe earned her PhD in Living Marine Resources and Management at SMAST.