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Eliciting and Modeling Residential Lawn and Landscape Practices: Systematic Information to Assess Knowledge, Explicit Behavior, and Inform Management across the Long Island Sound Watershed
There is significant concern about the environmental impact of residential lawns, especially the extent to which they export nutrients and how this export is related to human behavior such as lawn fertilizer use. Despite past research seeking to characterize residential lawn care, there is no clear understanding of the most effective means to influence lawn…
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Advancing Southern New England Shellfish Aquaculture through an Engaged Public and Next Generation Tools
Marine aquaculture plays an important role in producing domestic seafood. The largest sector of the U.S. marine aquaculture industry is molluscan shellfish (e.g. oysters, clams and mussels) which accounts for more than 50% of total production. A large number of shellfish operations are concentrated within the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts where significant…
