PIE LTER Data Workshop
The PIE LTER is excited to offer a Data Workshop on March 19, 11am via Zoom to go over the LTER data publications requirements, PIE’s data submission process, and a tutorial for the ezEML metadata tool. We encourage everyone who works with data to attend, including PIs, postdocs, RAs, graduate students, and undergraduates!
Read MorePIE graduate student Aiyin Zhang wins first place in the Remote Sensing Specialty Group’s Illustrated Paper Competition at AGG 2024
PIE graduate student Aiyin Zhang attended the recent American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2024 Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she won first place in the Remote Sensing Specialty Group’s Illustrated Paper Competition with her poster presentation titled “Data quality assessment of loss and gain of a land category during a time series”. Aiyin’s research focused on…
Read MoreImproving Tools to Track Carbon Emissions
New research focusing on adapting carbon dioxide sensors for streams and rivers.
Read MoreHow a thumb-sized climate migrant with a giant crab claw is disrupting the Northeast’s Great Marsh ecosystem
Fiddler crabs have moved far beyond their historical range.
Read MoreFormer PIE outreach coordinator, Robert Buchsbaum, recieves the 2023 Gulf of Maine Visionary Award
Congratulations to Robert Buchsbaum on receiving the 2023 Gulf of Maine Visionary Award(link is external) from The Gulf of Maine Council, presented by Lisa Engler from the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management.
Read MoreHuge Ceratium bloom in Plum Island Sound
This week our team collected an unusual dense mass of brown material in a 150u plankton net, towed near the mouth of Plum Island Sound.
Read MoreA Child, the Great Marsh, and Climate Change: a science art project by students at River Valley Charter School
A wonderful set of art panels was created from recycled materials by 7th-8th graders at River Valley Charter School for the project “A Child, the Great Marsh, and Climate Change”.
Read MorePIE researchers present at New England Estuarine Research Society 2023 meeting
Two PIE researchers presented last week at the New England Estuarine Research Society 2023 meeting.
Read MoreNew paper from Nat Weston finds increased accretion in US East Coast marshes
A new paper(link is external) from Nat Weston’s lab reveals how salt marshes along the U.S. East Coast have responded to accelerating sea level rise by building elevation more quickly to keep pace with the sea over the last century.
Read MoreScience update from PIE scientists in the GOMI Journal Summer 2022 Issue
The new Summer 2022 Issue of the Gulf of Maine Institute (GOMI) Journal is out and features a Science Update by PIE Senior Research Assistant, Jane Tucker, PIE Principal Investigator, Wil Wolheim, and PIE PhD Student, Chris Whitney.
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