All three members of the MV lab attended the New England Estaurine Research Society's Spring 2017 meeting at UConn Avery Point last week. 

Kate Szura started off the weekend presenting her field work, which looks at the impact of chronic nitrogen loading on greenhouse gases in salt marshes (pictured left). 

Ashley Hogan presented next, sharing her results of oyster denitrification rates from organisms maintained in contrasting environmental conditions (pictured below, left).

Liz Brannon finished the weekend, presenting her data on the use of gene abundances for nitrous oxide emission insight (pictured below, right).
Liz was awarded the Ketchum Prize for best graduated student presentation for her talk!!

Dr. MV has been working with several collaborators and students on projects focused on financing wetland restoration through the carbon markets. The MV Lab has been providing data which highlights the ability of tidal wetlands to sequester greenhouse gases, as well as collaborating with other scientists to generate models that are able to calculate how greenhouse gas fluxes may change with restoration efforts. 

Read the full article in the link below, and see how Dr. MV, former student Dr. Rose Martin, and current students Katelyn Szura and Elizabeth Brannon have been involved in this exciting new research. 

http://web.uri.edu/rinsfepscor/2017/03/03/carbon-credits-for-coastal-restoration/