SAV

SAV recovery and estuarine nutrient cycling

The Susquehanna Flats SAV beds cover nearly 25 square kilometers. Each square meter contains about 150 g of plant material. When you do the math, that’s a LOT of biomass! True to our ecosystem ecology roots, we want to know how much carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus the SAV beds are retaining and how much sediment they are trapping.

SAV-aquaculture interactions

Aquaculture is prohibited in areas where SAV is growing. But how much of an impact does it really have on SAV?

Oyster reef ecosystem functioning

Artificial 3-D oyster reefs are great oyster habitat, but do they provide other benefits to the system? This series of student projects investigates restored oyster reef ecosystem functioning.