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Jackson Estuarine Laboratory Faculty & Staff

Resident Faculty

David M. Burdick
Research Associate Professor of Natural Resources
•  Community ecology and landscape interactions of dynamic coastal wetlands
•  Monitoring and analysis of impacted, created and restored wetlands
•  Enhancement of wetland functions through community-based programs
•  Physiology of plants in stressful environments (flooding, salinity, disease)

Raymond E. Grizzle
Research Associate Professor of Zoology

•  Ecology of Faunal Benthos
•  Ecology and Aquaculture of Bivalve Molluscs
•  Environmental Ethics

Stephen H. Jones
Research Associate Professor of Marine Science and Natural Resources
•  Ecology and physiology of human, finfish and shellfish pathogens
•  Pollution sources identification using molecular detection method
•  Biodegradation of toxic organic pollutants
•  Microbial cycling of trace metals in the environment

Richard Langan
Director, CINEMar; Co-Director, CICEET; Affiliate Associate Professor of Zoology
•  Aquaculture of bivalve molluscs
•  Environmental technologies
•  Estuarine water quality monitoring

Arthur C. Mathieson
Professor of Plant Biology
•  Ecology, ecophysiology and systematics of seaweeds
•  Seaweed aquaculture
•  Synoptic and experimental studies of estuarine ecosystems

Gregg E. Moore
Research Scientist II
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Biogeochemistry of natural, disturbed and restored salt marsh systems
•  Ecology of invasive plant species in native wetland communities
•  Mangrove restoration ecology and conservation
•  Tropical island ecology, conservation and land management

Jonathan R. Pennock
Director of UNH Marine Program and Jackson Estuarine Laboratory
Associate Professor of Natural Resources
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Estuarine nutrient biogeochemistry
•  Phytoplankton ecology and harmful algal bloom dynamics
•  Eutrophication and estuarine ecosystem health
•  Estuarine and coastal oceanography
•  Estuarine and coastal food web dynamics
•  Coastal remote sensing

Frederick T. Short
Research Professor of Marine Science and Natural Resources
•  Restoration of seagrass habitats
•  Global seagrass monitoring
•  Ecophysiology of seagrasses
•  Modeling of seagrass habitat change

Larry G. Ward
Research Associate Professor of Earth Sciences - Coastal Geologist
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Geomorphologic, sedimentologic and stratigraphic relationships of coastal, estuarine and shelf systems
•  Holocene development of coastal systems
•  Impact of climate change and sea level rise (past and future) on coastal systems
•  Seafloor characterization and mapping
•  Environmental monitoring

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Associate Faculty

W. Huntting Howell
Associate Professor of Zoology
•  Ecology of marine and estuarine fish
•  Culture of American oysters
•  Biology of lobsters

John Ruairdh (Ru) Morrison
UNH Research Assistant Professor - Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory
•  Optical Oceanography and remote sensing
•  Phytoplankton photophysiology
•  Ocean observing systems

Winsor H. Watson
Professor of Zoology
•  The behavior and physiology of lobsters
•  The neural basis of behavior in marine invertebrates
•  Tidal and cicadian rhythms of marine organisms
•  Marine invertebrates as bioindicators of environmental contamination

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Research Affiliate

Clinton Dawes
University of South Florida Research Professor, UNH Adjunct Professor in Plant Biology
•  Seaweed ecology, physiology and ultrastructure
•  Ecology and physiology of tropical seagrasses
•  Restoration studies at mangrove and seagrass communities
•  Seaweed flora of Florida

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Resident Staff

David M. Shay
Laboratory Manager
•  Facility Oversight
•  UNH small boat supervisor

Heather M. Talbot
Program Support Assistant
•  Schedules R/V GULF CHALLENGER
•  Responsible for the Jackson Lab and Shoals Marine Lab at UNH websites
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Provides administrative assistance to JEL and SML at UNH

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Research Support Staff

Krystin Ward
Research Laboratory Technician II
•  Great Bay monitoring
•  CICEET telemetry project
•  Water chemistry

Jeremy O. LeClair
Research Technician III
•  Great Bay monitoring
•  CICEET telemetry project
•  Water chemistry

Jaimie S. Wolf
Research Technician III
•  Automated water quality monitoring technologies
•  Estuarine water chemistry

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