Our Lab is engaged in a number basic and applied salt marsh studies throughout New England with a focus on restoration, resilience and climate adaption. Ongoing projects in Great Bay (NH), Great Marsh (MA-NH), and elsewhere in New England focus on salt marsh ecosystem services through monitoring marsh vegetation, pore water chemistry, hydrology, nekton, and avian uses. Meanwhile, our team has been exploring innovative restoration strategies including compaction runnelling of marsh platform megapools (e.g., using compacted swales to help reconnect hydrologic drainages to rapidly expanding marsh pools caused by a combination of excessive historic ditching, marsh subsidence and sea level rise effects), ditch remediation, and thin layer sediment additions, among other novel approaches in collaboration with local, state, and federal partners.
Recent publications:
McKown, JG; Burdick, DM; Moore, GE; Gibson, JL; Ferguson, W. 2024. Evaluation of drainage enhancement for vegetation recovery in salt marshes in New England using public aerial imagery. Journal of Coastal Research 40(6): 1144-1159.
Routhier, MR; Moore, GE; Rock, B. 2023. Assessing spectral band, elevation, and collection date combinations for classifying salt marsh vegetation with unoccupied aerial vehicle (UAV)-acquired imagery. Remote Sensing 15(20): 5076.
Raposa, KB; Woolfolk, A; Endris, CA; Fountain, MC; Moore, GE; Tyrrell, M; Swerida, R; Lerberg, S; Puckett, BJ; Ferner, MC; Hollister, J; Burdick, DM; Champlin, L; Krause, JR; Haines, D; Gray, AB; Watson, EB; Wasson, K. 2023. Evaluating thin-layer sediment placement as a tool for enhancing tidal marsh resilience: a coordinated experiment across eight US National Estuarine Research Reserves. Estuaries and Coasts 46: 595-615.
