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Massachusetts
The UMass CMER program has engaged faculty
members and graduate students from 11
departments on the Amherst campus in the
College of Food and Natural Sciences, Eisenberg
School of Management, College of Natural
Sciences and Mathematics as well as departments
on the UMass Boston, Dartmouth, and Lowell
campuses. Projects have addressed a wide range of
issues important in the Northeast, such as winter
flounder ecology, seafood shelf life, sampling
designs, subsistence fishing, and cod maturation.
Rhode Island
The CMER Program at URI builds on a long
history of cooperation and excellence in marine
science, education, and management. Faculty
at the Graduate School of Oceanography, the
Coastal Institute, the College of the Environment
and Life Sciences, the College of Engineering, and
the College of Arts and Sciences have worked
together with NOAA scientists on a wide variety
of research topics. The URI program director also
provides guidance for the CMER activity at
Southampton College on Long Island, with its
unique focus on undergraduate training.
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A Northern Atlantic right
whale breaking surface.
This whale species is
threatened by ship
strikes and fishing gear.
CMER research on their
distribution may help
better protect these
animals.
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Growth and survival during
the first months of life for
the larval haddock in
large part determine the
production and availability
of fish. The CMER program
has funded a variety of
studies on the critical,
early-life stages of fish.
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Rutgers
The Rutgers CMER program reaches out to faculty
and students throughout the university. State-of-
the-art expertise in molecular genetics, physical
oceanography, remote sensing, modeling, and
analytical chemical techniques, among other
fields, has been used to address questions
regarding essential fish habitat, fish biology and
life history, pollutant effects, and socioeconomics.
Recently, bluefish and striped bass dynamics
have been a major component of the program.
Scientists at the James J. Howard Laboratory at
Sandy Hook, NJ are important collaborators on
many projects.
Virginia CMER
The Virginia CMER program was established in
2000. It includes both Hampton University and
the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS),
which is the School of Marine Science for the
College of William and Mary. In addition to
supporting the overall goals of CMER, this
program is designed to facilitate interactions
between a historically minority-serving university
with an excellent undergraduate program and an
established and focused program in marine
science at VIMS.
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