Lter: plum island ecosystems, the impact of changing landscapes and climate on interconnected coastal ecosystems

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2224608
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Awarding agency
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$3,236,340

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Assistance listing
47.050 Geosciences
Completion date 68% complete
Place of performance
Woods Hole, Falmouth, MA, USA

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Abstract
The plum island ecosystems long term ecological research (PIE lter) site consists of a linked watershed-marsh-estuarine system connected to the gulf of maine. The goal of the PIE lter is to advance our predictive understanding of the long-term response of coupled land-marsh-estuary-ocean ecosystems to changes in three key drivers: climate, sea level and human activities. This research sheds light on how marshes are responding to sea-level rise and controls on carbon storage, or blue carbon, in marsh and estuarine ecosystems. To understand how nutrients and carbon from land influence the estuary and how marshes and estuaries contribute to oceanic carbon and nutrient budgets, the investigators are measuring the flows of carbon and nutrients across the watershed-to-ocean continuum. To understand how estuarine and marsh ecosystem food webs are changing with sea level rise and warming temperatures, the investigators are measuring changes in abundance of key species and analyzing the entire food web using tracer techniques. This information is being shared with managers from local, regional and federal agencies, as well as non-profit orgainzations. In collaboration with mass audubon the investigators are running a k-12 schoolyard program, ?salt marsh science?, which provides ten schools with experiential learning opportunities for students and teachers. They also work with the gulf of maine institute (gomi), a non-profit that provides intensive training and on-going support to teachers to help them develop environmental community-based stewardship projects. The PIE lter is organized around three questions that build on previous findings and integrate long-term studies with new observations, experiments, and model development. Activities within the three questions integrate across the entire watershed-marsh-estuary domain to facilitate a broader synthesis of long-term data and new observations. The first question is: ?how are the sources and fates of organic matter and nutrients in the linked watershed/estuary system being altered by changing land use, sea-level rise (SLR), climate, and geomorphology?? To answer this, the investigators are examining how the linked coastal system influences estuarine production and water quality, as well as the role of coastal ecosystems in modulating carbon and nutrient fluxes to the nearshore ocean through a combination of expanded observations and numerical modeling. The second question, ?how do food webs and energy flow respond to new geomorphic configurations, SLR, changing climate, and associated estuarine responses?? Is being answered through a new integrative effort to determine how the landscapes? Ability to transfer energy to food webs changes with habitat. This effort is combining long-term abundance data, stable isotope data on niche size, and mapping of landscape features to model how future changes in the marsh-estuary configuration will modify energy flow. Given the importance of coastal ecosystems in supporting nearshore food webs, understanding how this link will change with climate, land use change, and SLR is critical. Finally, the investigators are asking: ?what internal feedbacks might accelerate, slow down, or even reverse the predicted changes in emergent marsh configuration and the fate of carbon, nutrients and energy?? Society needs to understand more about internal feedbacks that might increase marsh resilience or compromise marsh survival as sea levels rise, systems warm, and watershed inputs continue to change. With new collaborations, the team is also leveraging large-scale marsh restoration to test hypotheses on feedback mechanisms within the system. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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Subawards

Subrecipient Amount Awarded
University Of South Carolina James Morris’s role in the ‘NSF LTER Plum Island Ecosystems, the impact of changing landscapes and climate on interconnected coastal ecosystems’ project will be… $55,167
University Of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. The University of Georgia, under the direction of the Principal Investigator James Nelson, will conduct stable isotope analysis and food web analysis for the… $73,933
Virginia Institute Of Marine Science Dr. Johnson will be responsible for continuing the long- erm monitoring of benthic invertebrates in salt marshes in the Plum Island Ecosystem LTER. This… $67,748
Villanova University In The State Of Pennsylvania Weston will be responsible for overseeing aspects of the proposed work in the marsh and estuary and will supervise a technician. Weston and the technician… $65,197
Trustees Of Clark University This proposal is a subcontract for which Professor Pontius’ group at Clark University will coordinate with the Plum Island Ecosystems (PIE) site, which is… $59,538
University System Of New Hampshire Wollheim at UNH commits to the items we are named as responsible for in the proposal, including leading the watershed field work, conducting the watershed… $90,105
Trustees Of Boston University Modeling Approach (Sergio Fagherazzi) - We will use the 3-D numerical hydrodynamic model Delft3D coupled with the estuarine biogeochemistry “water quality”… $58,378
Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. Dr. Danielle Perry, Mass Audubon’s Coastal Resilience Program Director will serve as liaison between LTER scientists and the education and outreach programs… $32,000
University Of South Carolina James Morris’s role in the ‘NSF LTER Plum Island Ecosystems, the impact of changing landscapes and climate on interconnected coastal ecosystems’ project will be… $54,483
University Of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. The University of Georgia, under the direction of the Principal Investigator James Nelson, will conduct stable isotope analysis and food web analysis for the… $73,820
Northeastern University Overarching Question: How are plant genetic and trait variation distributed across the marsh elevational gradient, and what are the impacts of this variation on… $69,637
Virginia Institute Of Marine Science Dr. Johnson will be responsible for continuing the long- erm monitoring of benthic invertebrates in salt marshes in the Plum Island Ecosystem LTER. This… $67,748
University System Of New Hampshire Wollheim at UNH commits to the items we are named as responsible for in the proposal, including leading the watershed field work, conducting the watershed… $85,027
Villanova University In The State Of Pennsylvania Weston will be responsible for overseeing aspects of the proposed work in the marsh and estuary and will supervise a technician. Weston and the technician… $63,546
Trustees Of Boston University Modeling Approach (Sergio Fagherazzi) - We will use the 3-D numerical hydrodynamic model Delft3D coupled with the estuarine biogeochemistry “water quality”… $78,121
Trustees Of Clark University This proposal is a subcontract for which Professor Pontius’ group at Clark University will coordinate with the Plum Island Ecosystems (PIE) site, which is… $57,847
University Of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. The University of Georgia, under the direction of the Principal Investigator James Nelson, will conduct stable isotope analysis and food web analysis for the… $70,808
Virginia Institute Of Marine Science Dr. Johnson will be responsible for continuing the long- erm monitoring of benthic invertebrates in salt marshes in the Plum Island Ecosystem LTER. This… $67,748
Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. Dr. Danielle Perry, Mass Audubon’s Coastal Resilience Program Director will serve as liaison between LTER scientists and the education and outreach… $32,000
University Of South Carolina James Morris’s role in the ‘NSF LTER Plum Island Ecosystems, the impact of changing landscapes and climate on interconnected coastal… $53,811
University System Of New Hampshire Wollheim at UNH commits to the items we are named as responsible for in the proposal, including leading the watershed field work, conducting the watershed… $76,681
Villanova University In The State Of Pennsylvania Weston will be responsible for overseeing aspects of the proposed work in the marsh and estuary and will supervise a technician. Weston and the technician… $61,942
Trustees Of Boston University Modeling Approach (Sergio Fagherazzi) - We will use the 3-D numerical hydrodynamic model Delft3D coupled with the estuarine biogeochemistry “water… $76,050
Trustees Of Clark University This proposal is a subcontract for which Professor Pontius’ group at Clark University will coordinate with the Plum Island Ecosystems (PIE) site, which… $59,965
Northeastern University Overarching Question: How are plant genetic and trait variation distributed across the marsh elevational gradient, and what are the impacts of this variation on… $70,325
University Of Louisiana At Lafayette Summary The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, under the direction of Principal Investigator James Nelson, will conduct the stable isotope analysis and… $21,703
University Of South Carolina James Morris’s role in the ‘NSF LTER Plum Island Ecosystems, the impact of changing landscapes and climate on interconnected coastal… $45,213
Trustees Of Boston University Modeling Approach (Sergio Fagherazzi) - We will use the 3-D numerical hydrodynamic model Delft3D coupled with the estuarine biogeochemistry “water… $50,392
University System Of New Hampshire Wollheim at UNH commits to the items we are named as responsible for in the proposal, including leading the watershed field work, conducting the watershed… $79,650
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2224608 was awarded to The Marine Biological Laboratory by Division of Ocean Sciences (National Science Foundation) on October 1, 2022.

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$3,236,340 has been obligated on 2224608.

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