SERC's Environmental Archaeology Laboratory measures the different environmental stresses created by socially differentiated households from 3000 B.C.-A.D. 1950.

Principal Investigator: Jim Gibb

The Coastal Disease Ecology Lab combines community ecology, invasion ecology, parasitology, and epidemiology to study parasites and infectious disease ecology in coastal ecosystems. 

Principal Investigator: Katrina Lohan

We use spatial analysis and modeling to investigate nutrient discharges from watersheds, the role of wetlands in nutrient transport, the effects of watershed characteristics on aquatic health, and carbon storage in coastal wetlands.

Principal Investigator: Donald Weller

The Fisheries Conservation Lab investigates the ecology, management, and conservation of marine and estuarine fisheries.

Principal Investigator: Matthew Ogburn

The Global Change Ecology Lab combines biogeochemistry and microbial ecology to better understand how wetlands and other ecosystems respond to global climate change.

Principal Investigator: Genevieve Noyce

We study the diversity of marine life: evolutionary origins, ecological dynamics, and functional significance for human lives and economies.

Principal Investigator: Emmett Duffy, Martin Thiel

We study patterns, processes, and consequences of marine invasions on a global scale.

Principal Investigator: Gregory Ruiz, Amy Freestone

The Nutrient Lab studies the flows of nitrogen and phosphorus in ecosystems, the consequences of human-induced nutrient enrichment, and ways of removing excess nutrients from circulation in the environment.

Principal Investigator: Thomas Jordan

The Photobiology and Solar Radiation laboratory at SERC focuses on solar Ultraviolet Radiation and its effects in ecosystems.

Principal Investigator: Patrick Neale

We are interested in plants and interactions between plants and other organisms, including animals, fungi and bacteria. We work at scales ranging from molecular to landscape and we spread our efforts about equally between wetlands and terrestrial ecosystems. 

Principal Investigator: Dennis Whigham

We focus on explaining the responses of animals to environmental change and identifying opportunities for maintaining biodiversity in working landscapes.

Principal Investigator: Justin Nowakowski

We study biological invasions, biodiversity-ecosystem function, and the consequences of global change for species’ distributions and interactions.    

Principal Investigator: John Parker