Read our newest publication here : Aberrant Pigmentation in a Schooling Cownose Ray ( Rhinoptera bonasus ) in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, USA

PhD student Alison Novara presented an awesome talk "Spawning under stress: Impacts of bay scallop reproduction on their responses to high temperatures and hypoxia" to a large room of scientists and industry folks at the Northeast Aquaculture Conference & Exposition in Portland, ME. Incredible work!

In October, 2025, all of the graduate students in our lab traveled to Frostburg, MD to attend and present at the annual MEES Colloquium. We were the most well represented of any lab group across the MEES program! So proud of this crew!

In August 2025, PhD student Alison Novara spoke with MD and VA educators at a retreat hosted by the Maryland Coastal Bays Program. She shared her research on bay scallop reproduction and guided groups of educators through a scallop dissection!

In July, 2025 PhD students Alison Novara and Katie Tanner traveled to the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, MD to participate in an acidification workshop hosted by the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Acidification Network (MACAN). Katie also gave an awesome presentation on her work with blue carbon in eelgrass!

Prior to a 30-min interview featuring Her Deepness, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Tomasetti speaks with The Explorers Club Members about the Chesapeake Bay Hope Spot Designation by Mission Blue, and it's historical, ecological, and cultural significance. Full program here:

I'm happy to announce that the UMES Paul S. Sarbanes Coastal Ecology Center and The Explorers Club are co-champions of the Chesapeake Bay Hope Spot recently designated by Sylvia Earle's Mission Blue Organization. Read more here .

In March 2025, the Tomasetti CES Lab attended the Annual American Fisheries Society Tidewater Meeting in Beaufort, North Carolina where we presented some exciting findings on Red Drum, oyster aquaculture, shellfisheries, and SAV. Our group was awarded three of four student poster awards: first place PhD, first place MS, and second place MS posters! That's one proud PI!

Our lab's very own Glen Collins Jr. was featured in a news article in Bay to Bay News, here . Great job Glen!

The Tomasetti Lab has a few new projects coming up... We plan to bring on at least three more graduate students to start as early as...

Read our newest publication: Oyster reefs' control of carbonate chemistry - implications for oyster reef restoration in estuaries subject...

Check out our book chapter : Estuarine Shellfish and Climate Change. Or just read the whole book!

Read our new publication: Small and patchy is enough - an example about how toxic HAB events can spread through low resting cyst loads.

Read our new publication: Warming and hypoxia reduce the performance and survival of northern bay scallops (Argopecten irradians...

CBS News story on our recent paper published in Frontiers in Marine Science.

Read our new publication: Rebuilding a collapsed bivalve population, restoring seagrass meadows, and eradicating harmful algal blooms in...

Read our new publication: The role of physico-chemical interactions in the seasonality of toxic dinoflagellate cyst assemblages: the case...

Read our new paper: Kelp (Saccharina latissima) mitigates coastal ocean acidification and increases the growth of North Atlantic bivalves...

The Provincetown Independent summarizes the outcomes of the Nickerson Conservation Fellowship research in the Cape Cod National Seashore.

Read our paper - Brief episodes of nocturnal hypoxia and acidification reduce survival of economically important blue crab (Callinectes...