Kelp Declines in the Gulf of Maine
This summer, I was lucky enough to be part of a paper with colleagues at Bigelow, Maine DMR, and UMaine put out a paper using causal inference techniques to show that warming is causing kelp loss throughout the Gulf of Maine, this despite the potential to rebound after urchins declined in the system. Today, I […]
Living Seawalls in the News
With the installation of the Living Seawalls in East Boston and the Seaport as part of the Stone Living Lab nearly complete, we’ve been lucky to have not one, but two great pieces in the press about the work. Check out excellent coverage by both WBUR and the Boston Globe about the project!
Opportunities for Graduate Students in Kelp Forest Ecology
I currently have two openings for graduate students in either the UMB Biology Department or SFE. Please see below and don’t hesitate to contact me with questions! Grad Student for Using Hyperspectral Imagery to Assess the Effects of Warming on New England Kelp Forests The Byrnes and Schaaf labs at UMass Boston (http://byrneslab.net and https://www.umb.edu/spectralmass) […]
Job: Biological Monitoring Tech in the Byrnes Lab
Seasonal Biological Monitoring Technician in the Byrnes Lab June 1 – Aug. 31, 2021 The Byrnes lab at UMass Boston seeks two summer technicians for work on biological monitoring of rocky shorelines in the Boston Harbor Islands in collaboration with the Stone Living Lab. The Stone Living Lab (https://stonelivinglab.org/) is a multi-investigator effort to evaluate […]
Jarrett gives SML Rock Talk Online!
As all seminars and such for the Covid era are online this summer, Jarrett’s Shoals Marine Lab Rock Talk on kelps is now online as well! Check it out!
Looking for Postdoc Interested in Kelp, Remote Sensing, and Citizen Science
We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher interested in the use of remote sensing to understand the drivers of giant kelp dynamics at global scales. The Floating Forests project (http://floatingforests.org) is a NASA funded citizen science effort to map changes in kelp abundance using Landsat satellite imagery. The successful candidate will analyze this data to examine […]
Byrnes lab undergrad Matt Souza talks Crabs on Living on Earth
Matt Souza spent the last summer working on his honors thesis out at the UMB Nantucket Field Station. While there, NPS’s Living on Earth came out to hear wht he was working on. Hear him talk about his experience and a wonderful primer on Nantucket crabs!
New Paper: One Phrag Genotype to Rule them All
In new work out last week, Jarrett working with colleagues showed that the genotype of different subspecies of Phragmites australis not only sets up sometimes *very* different communities of microbes, but ultimately determines local ecosystem function and plant performance. These genotype-microbe associations can be nearly identical even when plants are hundreds of kilometers apart. These […]
Are warming oceans hitting Gulf of Maine Kelp Forests?
Jarrett is quoted in an AP story in this week’s Portland Press Herals on the fate of Gulf of Maine kelp forests based on work the Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network is doing here!
Congrats to REUs!
Byrnes Lab REUs presented their summer work on predation in kelp forests and sedimentation rates in salt marshes at the UMB summer research symposium, and nailed it! It’s been a great summer watching them grow as scientists and just do amazing work. Here’s to more to come! Still […]
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