We parked our boat on a sand bar on the falling tide in the middle of Plum Island Sound at about 5pm and hung out until about midnight when the […]

We have moved our lateral exchange measurements to the mouth of Plum Island Sound and to each of the major estuaries (one per year) during this next stage of the […]

Undergraduate Gabriella Giordano completed and presented her Senior Thesis in Spring 2020. Gabriella’s thesis is titled “Spatial Analysis of Heavy Metals in Marsh Soils and Ribbed Mussels (Geukensia demissa) from […]

Sandra Demberger successfully defended her MS thesis titled “Quantifying and Valuing Carbon and Nitrogen Sequestration as Ecosystem Services in Salt Marshes” in Spring 2020. Sandra has taken a position as […]

Kristen Jezycki successfully defended her MS thesis “Assessing Heavy Metal Pollution in Estuarine Systems Along the Eastern United States in Relation to Land Use Land Cover Changes” on May 7. […]

Six graduate students in the Masters in Environmental Science program at Villanova University visited the Plum Island research site in coastal Massachusetts in October 2018. Conducting lateral exchange measurements at […]

Congratulations to the 2018 graduates! The Weston lab is especially proud of undergraduate students Olivia Cacciatore (grad school at University of Florida), Diana Lampasona (position with ESRI), and Mikala Jordan […]

Elise Rodriguez successfully defended her thesis “Land cover impacts on mineral sediment delivery and accretion rates in tidal wetlands” on April 20. Elise combined Pb-210 counting from cores taken in […]

Mary Zawatski successfully defended her thesis “Carbon Exchange and Sediment Deposition in a Heterogeneous New England Salt Marsh” today.  Mary has compiled an amazing data-set over the last two years that […]

The lab will host a research intern during summer 2018. This position is open only to current Villanova undergraduate students. Applications due March 2. Click here for more information and to […]