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 a tidal creek site over an 11-hour tidal cycle.
Conducting dawn and dusk metabolism transects along the 24-km Parker River – Plum Island Sound estuarine system.
Collecting tea-bags that had been deployed in July to measure rates of decomposition at marsh sites throughout the system.