Assistant professor Lauren Ross of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has earned a CAREER award of over $600,000 from the National Science Foundation to study land-sea connections, freshwater/saltwater exchange, and material transport in a range of complex tidal estuary conditions. The NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program supports early-career faculty in establishing […]
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A new research paper co-authored by Sean Smith summarizing the Chesapeake Bay Program modeling system is published in Ecological Modeling. The paper provides a description of the modeling system along with recommendations from a workshop designed to inform future model development.
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Congratulations to WPES PhD student, Bea Van Dam, for being awarded First Place in the Graduate Student poster competition at the 2021 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference! Van Dam, B. and S.M.C. Smith. 2021. Pouring spatial data into shellfishery management decision-making. Maine Sustainability and Water Conference. Sen. George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions.
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Ross, L., S. Alahmed, S.M.C. Smith, and G. Roberts. 2021. Tidal and subtidal transport in short, tidally driven estuaries with low rates of freshwater input. Continental Shelf Research, Vol. 224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2021.104453
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