Watershed Process and Estuary Sustainability Research Group

Please consider participation in a technical session at the 2025 Joint Northeastern-Central Meeting of the Geological Society of America hosted by affiliates of the Northeast Water Cycle Center and focused on water cycle research in the Northeast.  The meeting is scheduled to take place March 27-30 in Erie Pennsylvania. A description of the session is […]

Maine Water Resources Research Institute Communicating Water Resources Science Student Internships The Maine WRRI seeks to improve the transfer of knowledge between researchers and their partners in Maine by establishing an internship program for undergraduate/graduate students to help develop resources focused on facilitating the adaptation of water science into practice. Students will work collaboratively with […]

Please join us Wednesday, Oct. 23 from 12:00-1:00 pm in BGSC 100 for the weekly School of Earth and Climate Sciences Seminar Series. Dr. Karen Prestegaard from the Department of Geology at the University of Maryland will be giving a talk on hydrological and geomorphological controls on water, sediment, and solute fluxes in Urban Fall […]

WPES faculty, staff, and graduate students convened with other coastal scientists to share research at the 2024 Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas (PECS) conference in Bordeaux, France in September. The conference, co-organized by WPES co-leader Dr. Lauren Ross, brought together an international group of researchers to discuss topics including wave, tide, and salt wedge […]

Taylor Bailey (PhD candidate) is first author of a new paper in the journal, Science of the Total Environment. The paper, Geomorphological Controls on Estuary Hydrodynamics with Implications for Diatom Blooms in Deglaciated Coastal Areas, informs current practices of harmful algae bloom (HAB) monitoring and management by linking coastal geomorphology to hydraulic conditions influencing HAB […]

The WPES research group has initiated a new collaborative project focused on mapping channel bottom textures in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam. The work uses data acquired by the USGS during previous river measurement expeditions and expands on techniques described by Buscombe, Grams, and Smith (2015). The research has relevance to river management […]

A case study detailing concentrations and chemical compositions of microplastic fibers in Frenchman Bay and its upstream estuaries and rivers has been published in the journal Environmental Engineering Science. The paper, Land–Sea Connection of Microplastic Fiber Pollution in Frenchman Bay, Maine, reveals that as many as 400 billion microplastic fibers may be found in the […]

MS student Cade King was awarded first place in the graduate poster competition at the 2024 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference in Augusta.  His poster summarizes research on Analyzing Measured Flows for Salmon Habitat Management in the Upper Penobscot River. Congratulations, Cade! WPES undergraduate intern David Libby also made a strong showing with his first […]

Please join us Wednesday, November 8th from 12-1pm in BGSC 100 for the weekly School of Earth and Climate Sciences’ Seminar Series. This week, Dr. Taylor Rowley from UMass Amherst will be joining us to discuss the Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission developed by NASA. All are welcome to join and talk with Dr. Rowley. For those […]