Co-PI's Pradhanang, Cardace, and Moseman-Valtierra are currently leading their graduate and undergraduate students in multiple different experiments using instruments like the LI-COR, Gas Chromatograph, and X-ray crystallography sampling from salt marshes across Rhode Island! Stay tuned!

Maddie is a Summer 2023 Research Intern with CFRF to help characterize spider crab populations in Rhode Island, assist with Jonah Crab data, and develop new projects. Maddie hopes to help characterize the blue crab population in Narragansett Bay to help researchers, fishermen, and managers come together to establish holistic models of fisheries management to keep ecosystems healthy. Working with CFRF is the start to this career long journey she hopes to embark on. This internship is supported by the Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment.

Maddie was awarded the CELS Robert P. & Dolores C. McKenna Graduate Scholarship to help support her continued blue crab pot survey field work to assess blue crab population characterization in a tidal river in Bristol, RI!

After a hiatus, I'm pleased to announce that our lab is starting a new collaborative research project with funding from NASA:

https://www.uri.edu/news/2022/08/three-uri-professors-win-735000-grant-from-nasa-epscor-to-study-methane-emissions-from-rocks-common-to-earth-mars/

Two new publications from the MV Lab have been accepted and are now in press!

Keep an eye out in Aquatic Botany for:
Martin and Moseman-Valtierra - Plant manipulations and diel cycle measurements test drivers of carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in a Phragmites australis-invaded coastal marsh 

And also look for the new publication in Ecosphere: 
Moseman-Valtierra et al. - Carbon dioxide fluxes reflect plant zonation and belowground biomass in a coastal marsh 
with student co-authors Ryan Quinn (undergrad), Liz Brannon (Ph.D. candidate), Rose Martin (Ph.D. graduate), and Katharine Egan (undergrad) plus collaborators from the Bringing Wetlands to Market team.

MV Lab member Kate Szura has been busy in her last year at URI! While finishing up field work, working hard in her final courses, and writing her thesis, Kate also presented her research "Summer Greenhouse Gas Fluxes Along a 100-fold Nitrogen Gradient in Narragansett Bay" at the NEERS Fall 2016 meeting where she was awarded with Best Graduate Poster!
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More recently, ​Kate was selected from a very competitive group of national applicants to participate in the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program where she accepted a placement within NOAA's Office of the Chief Information Officer. She has been living and working in DC since January 2018 where she is working on a project that makes NOAA's atmospheric and oceanic data more easily accessible.