{"id":154211,"date":"2020-01-02T14:45:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?page_id=154211"},"modified":"2021-02-19T13:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:42:42","slug":"marine-ecosystems-research-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/marine-ecosystems-research-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Ecosystems Research Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"Marine Ecosystems Research Laboratory\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-marine-ecosystems-research-laboratory\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-154295\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-154295\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/marine-ecosystems-research-laboratory\/\">MERL<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-154292\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-154292\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/marine-ecosystems-research-laboratory\/staff\/\">Staff<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-154289\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-154289\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/marine-ecosystems-research-laboratory\/datasets\/\">Datasets<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-177065\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-177065\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/marine-ecosystems-research-laboratory\/research-projects\/\">Research Projects<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-154286\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-154286\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/marine-ecosystems-research-laboratory\/publications\/\">Publications<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-154283\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-154283\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/marine-ecosystems-research-laboratory\/photos\/\">Photos<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-154280\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-154280\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/marine-ecosystems-research-laboratory\/history\/\">History<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-154277\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-154277\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/marine-ecosystems-research-laboratory\/contact\/\">Contact<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n<p><section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-hero-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-hero fullwidth   cl-has-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-hero-proper\"><div class=\"overlay\"><div class=\"block\"><h1>The Forefront in Monitoring Narragansett Bay Ecosystems<\/h1><\/div><\/div><div class=\"still\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/hero-merl.jpg);\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-controls-container\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-icon\" title=\"Accessibility controls\">Accessibility controls<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control cl-accessibility-motion-control cl-accessibility-control-hidden\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-default\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Pause motion\">Pause motion<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Motion: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">On<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-alternate\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Play motion\">Play motion<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Motion: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">Off<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control 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class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-155283\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/P5230013-3-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Dr. Candace Oviatt working on a research vessel.\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/P5230013-3-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/P5230013-3-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/P5230013-3-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/P5230013-3-364x241.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/P5230013-3-500x331.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/P5230013-3-1000x661.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/P5230013-3-1280x846.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/P5230013-3.jpg 1340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MERL was established in 1976 with funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In recent years, funding sources have diversified to include other federal and private agencies. The facility serves as a support laboratory and operations center for large experimental ecosystems. Four cylindrical enclosures, 1.8 m in diameter and 5.5 m in depth, are arranged along an access deck outside and adjacent to the building. The facility has laboratories for biology, water quality, and nutrient chemistry studies.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last two decades numerous experiments have been conducted at MERL. Long-term experiments, often of a duration greater than one year, have been conducted to observe ecosystems under the influence of hydrocarbon, enhanced nutrients, different nutrient ratios, sewage sludge and effluent, polluted sediments, salinity gradients and stratification. Many short-term experiments have been conducted to observe the behavior of several individual hydrocarbons, trace metals and animal species, such as larval fish.<\/p>\n<h2>MERL Director<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"uri-people-tool cl-tiles halves\"><div class=\"peopleitem h-card has-thumbnail\">\n\t<header>\n\t\t<div class=\"header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/meet\/candace-a-oviatt\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/oviatt-500px.jpg\" class=\"u-photo  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/oviatt-500px.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/oviatt-500px-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/oviatt-500px-364x364.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"p-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/meet\/candace-a-oviatt\/\">Candace A. Oviatt<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/header>\n\t<div class=\"inside\">\n\n\t\t<p class=\"people-title p-job-title\">Professor of Oceanography<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"people-department\">Biological Oceanography<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"people-misc\"><span class=\"p-tel\">401.874.6661<\/span> <br> <a class=\"u-email\" href=\"mailto:coviatt@uri.edu\">coviatt@uri.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<h2>Long Term Monitoring and Current Projects<\/h2>\n<p>The Marine Ecosystem Research Laboratory (MERL, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island) specializes in whole system studies of estuaries and coastal waters. Our studies include water quality (2000-present: temperature, salinity, light, alkalinity, chlorophyll, oxygen, pH), nutrients (1976 and 2005 to present: ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phosphate, total nitrogen, total phosphorus), winter-spring bloom limiting factors, primary productivity limiting nutrients and major faunal compartments such as benthos, bivalves, lobster and fish in areas such as Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island Sound, and Narragansett Bay.<\/p>\n<p>We have a long history of using experimental mesocosms, field sampling and fixed site and buoy network approaches. For over 20 years (1970s\u20131990s), we operated the MERL mesoscosms in eutrophication, climate and pollution studies for the Environmental Protection Agency. For the last two decades, (2001\u2013Present) we have maintained and operated several water quality monitoring stations within the Narragansett Bay&#8217;s Fixed Site Monitoring Network through a partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management&#8217;s Office of Water Resources. Currently, we are using the Sea Grant mesocosms in lobster and bivalve climate studies. Our long time series data sets (see datasets page) have become increasingly used to reveal water quality and climate trends in local waters. Our peer reviewed publications list contains over 100 papers devoted to these studies.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-125699 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/marine-ecosystems-research-laboratory\/attachment\/20171117_132848_001-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/20171117_132848_001-1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/20171117_132848_001-1-scaled.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/20171117_132848_001-1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/20171117_132848_001-1-576x1024.jpg 576w, 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