Tuesday, April 8

Session 1: Water Quality Monitoring

• David Wu, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
  MWRA monitoring programs in Massachusetts Bay

• Jeremy Miller, Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve
  Using continuous environmental monitoring data to inform biological changes in a rapidly warming Gulf of Maine: NOAA's System Wide Monitoring Program

• Reese LeVea, University of New Hampshire
  Water quality monitoring program in the Ipswich and Parker River watersheds

• Amy Costa, Center for Coastal Studies
  A collaborative approach to monitoring the coastal waters of Cape Cod

• Ryan Joyce, MA Division of Marine Fisheries
  Water quality monitoring for shellfish classification

• Shan Zuidema, University of New Hampshire
  Understanding controls of watershed exports to Gulf of Maine as land use and climate changes

• Austin Pugh, Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems
  NECAN’s Ocean Acidification Monitoring Plan

Session 2: Biological Monitoring

• Melissa Campbell, MA Division of Marine Fisheries
  Massachusetts Biotoxin Monitoring Program

• Cameron Thompson, Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems
  Zooplankton indicators of ecosystem change in the western Gulf of Maine

• Lucy Lockwood, University of Massachusetts Boston, & Marc Albert, National Park Service
  Development of an intertidal biodiversity monitoring framework to support climate adaptation of the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park

• Adam Kozlowski, National Parks Service
  Long-term rocky intertidal monitoring - program overview and preliminary results

• Lyra Brennan, Mass Audubon
  Coastal birds in Massachusetts: trends, challenges, and the future

Session 3: Aquatic Species Monitoring

• Anne Zegers, Manomet Conservation Sciences
  Community engaged conservation in action: supporting river herring recovery in the Gulf of Maine

• Brad Chase, MA Division of Marine Fisheries
  River herring spawning and nursery habitat assessment

• Graham Sherwood, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
  The Casco Bay Aquatic Systems Survey (CBASS)

• Jessie Batchelder, Manomet Conservation Sciences
  A crabby coast: monitoring green and blue crabs in the Gulf of Maine

• Lauren Jaramillo, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  NOAA NCCOS Mussel Watch Program in the Gulf of Maine

• Robert Jarrett, University of Maine
  Habitat-specific monitoring documents dramatic changes in habitat use and ecology of a data-rich fisheries species, American lobster

Session 4: Habitat Monitoring

• Nate Corcoran, MA Department of Environmental Protection & Katie Kahl, UMass Amherst
  MassMarsh: Massachusetts long-term salt marsh resilient research and monitoring program

• Cheyenne Adams, ME Department of Environmental Protection
  Restoring a regular seagrass mapping program in Maine

• Tay Evans, MA Department of Environmental Protection
  Status and trends of eelgrass in Massachusetts and MassDEP's Eelgrass Mapping Program

• Trevor Mattera, Piscataqua River Estuary Partnership and University of New Hampshire
  The many facets of eelgrass monitoring in the Great Bay Estuary, NH

• Lexie Neffinger, MA Office of Coastal Zone Management
  Monitoring introduced marine fouling species in the Gulf of Maine

Wednesday, April 9

Session 5: Water Quality Research

• Kara Law, Sea Education Association
  Plastic pollution in the Gulf of Maine

• Anne Giblin, Marine Biological Laboratory
  Long-Term research and monitoring in the Plum Island marshes and estuaries

• Brianna Group, The Nature Conservancy
  Leveraging aquaculture for restoration: an overview of the supporting oyster aquaculture for restoration program

• Rainer Lohmann, University of Rhode Island
  Results of the 2020 study measuring PFAs and CECs in Massachusetts Bay surface water

Session 6: Habitat and Biological Research

• Adrienne Kovach, University of New Hampshire
  Insights from tidal marsh birds to inform salt marsh restoration practices

• Neil Ganju, U.S. Geological Survey
  Geospatial analysis to support salt marsh management and restoration

• James McKown, University of New Hampshire
  Evaluation of drainage enhancement for vegetation recovery in salt marshes in New England using public aerial imagery

• Alyssa Goncalvez, University of Massachusetts Boston
  Molecular monitoring of multiple stressors impacts on the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis

• Lexi Wilkes, University of Massachusetts Boston
  Mapping kelp dynamics: uncovering Saccharina latissima distribution in the Gulf of Maine

Session 7: Modeling and Oceanography

• Jaime Palter, University of Rhode Island
  Large scale oceanographic context for rapid warming of the Northeast US continental shelf

• Jake Kritzer, Northeast Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems
  Overview of NERACOOS data resources

• Changsheng Chen, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (SMAST)
  Northeast Coastal Ocean Forecast System (NECOFS): a tool for assessing marine environmental conditions

• Laura Brothers, U.S. Geological Survey
  What lies beneath? The Gulf of Maine's seafloor and its implications for benthic habitat and development

• Gabriel Venegas, University of New Hampshire
  Physics-based Bayesian inversion of seafloor properties in the Gulf of Maine using calibrated water column sonar data

Closing: Bringing it all together

• Keynote: Jon Witman, Ph.D., Brown University