Projects

M. M. Whitney, P. Linderoth, Tracking Pathogen Pathways and Fecal Bacteria Patterns for Public Beaches Suffering with Poor Water Quality Grades and Closures, Long Island Sound Study.

M. M. Whitney, F. M. Whitney, J. Moran, D. Aldridge, E. Magers, Marine Debris Education and Prevention with High-School Students in a Long Island Sound Environmental Justice Community, Long Island Sound Futures Fund.

M. M. Whitney and P. Vlahos, Nutrient and Carbon Fluxes Through Long Island Sound, Linking River Sources to Impacted Areas, Long Island Sound Study.

M. M. Whitney, CAREER: The Influence of Distributed River Inputs and Coastal Embayments on Dynamics of Large Estuaries, National Science Foundation.

M. M. Whitney (UCONN PI), F. Bryan (NCAR PI), J. Dennis (NCAR Co-PI), P. MacCready (UW PI), Collaborative Project: Improving the representation of coastal and estuarine processes in earth system models, Department of Energy.

M. M. Whitney and J. Edson, Sea Breezes and Estuary-Shelf Response in Areas with Spatial Sea Surface Temperature Variability and Complex Coastal Geometry, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

M. M. Whitney, E. Ward, and K. DeRosia-Banick, Modeling Vibrio parahaemolyticus Outbreaks in Commercial Shellfish Areas in Western Long Island Sound: Research Linking Local Environmental Factors and Uptake by Oysters, Connecticut Sea Grant.

M. M. Whitney and P. Vlahos, Measuring and Predicting the Fate and Transport of Perfluorinated Contaminants Entering the Long Island Sound from Municipal Wastewater in the Housatonic Watershed, Connecticut Sea Grant.

M. M. Whitney (UCONN PI), D. Codiga (URI PI), D. Ullman (URI Co-PI), Collaborative Research: Investigating Tidal Influences on Subtidal Estuary-Coast Exchange Using Observations and Numerical Simulations, National Science Foundation.