Oyster Pond BU Marine Program
Ecology Reports 2003

Boston University Marine Program held a series of meetings at the Woods Hole Research Center in October to present research done entitled Oyster Pond: Impacts of Land Use on groundwater, pond water quality, plants and fish. The Oyster Pond Environmental Trust members and area residents attended. These presentations by the Marine Ecology class members are the result of research projects undertaken to answer stakeholder concerns about the status of the Oyster Pond/Lagoon ecosystem.

The following are PDF format files on the students' research:

• Experimental Evidence for Nutrient Limitation of Phytoplankton Growth in Oyster Pond - Erlitz, Fox, Leschen, Miller-Sims
• N Signatures as indicators of nitrogen loading in the Oyster Pond Estuary - Harnish, Kloepper, Mehta
• Oyster Pond: Links between watershed land use and nitrogen loading rates, and a discussion of management issues - Sarah R. Good
• N and Percent nitrogen in leaves of Phragmites australis and soil on the shore of Oyster Pond - Colleen Butler (Fall 2002, BUMP Marine Ecology)
• Salinity, nutrients and chlorophyll, vertical and horizontal profiles in Oyster Pond - Dixon, Grant, Rowan, and Whitney
• Wastewater Nitrogen is linked to changes in submerged aquatic vegetation and invertebrates in Oyster Pond - Cermak, Crandall, Young