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:

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!