Fredrika Moser

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science | UMCES · Maryland Sea Grant

This report discusses practitioners’ perceptions of opportunities and challenges as coastal ecosystem-based management has developed and reviews the critical and emerging science needed to support regional ecosystem-based management in the US.

Communities are beginning planning efforts to consider adaptation strategies to build their resilience (NRC, 2010), yet many lack the political capital or access to information and resources that would allow them to prepare for chronic flooding, catastrophic storm events, and losses of economically important natural resources. Frequently, it is und...

AimFor over 80 years, the Maine baitworm trade has shipped live polychaete worms and packing algae ‘wormweed’ to distributors world-wide, while also consistently transferring a wide diversity and abundance of hitchhiking organisms of all life stages to numerous recipient communities. Here, we investigate this potent, yet underestimated, invasion ve...

2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) was measured in sediments and suspended matter samples from estuaries adjacent to an industrial site in Newark, NJ, where chlorinated phenols had been produced. Present day and recent historical levels of 2,3,7,8-TCDD contamination were established through the use of radionuclide time tracers (Be-7...

To assess the magnitude and extent of 2,3,7,8-TCDD contamination, sediment cores from the Newark Bay estuary and contiguous waters were collected and dated by radiochemical methods. The core sections from two time horizons were analyzed for selected PCDD/Fs. The highest 2,3,7,8-TCDD concentrations were found in sediments from the sampling site near...