Projects and Grants

  • University of Otago Research Grant. A study of salt effects on haemocyanin oxygen binding in Amphibola crenata.
  • University of Otago Research Grant. A study of respiration in a terrebellid polychaete.
  • University of Otago Research Grant. Respiratory function of punctae in brachiopods and respiration in an intertidal crab.
  • Sigma Xi Grant-In-Aid-Of-Research (1981). Physiological adaptations in decapod crustaceans.
  • NOAA/Sea Grant - Superior shellfish stocks by polyploidization. (with H. Hidu, 1984-1987).
  • National Coastal Resources Research and Development Institute. Symposium: Toxic Algal Blooms - Hazards to Shellfish and Industry.
  • International Pectinid Workshop 1989 - Total funding obtained through sixteen separate agencies.
  • Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center - Effects of toxic algae on commercially important shellfish 1989.
  • Saltonstall-Kennedy (NOAA/NMFS) - Significance of domoic acid, DSP and PSP in the Gulf of Maine: an issue of economics and public safety (subcontract from New England Fisheries Development Association) 1990-1992.
  • Saltonstall-Kennedy (NOAA/NMFS) - Dinoflagellate bloom effects on oyster production (with K. Sellner, M. Luckenbach) 1991-1993.
  • Gulf of Maine Regional Marine Research Program - Preparation of a review of uptake and depuration kinetics of algal toxins by filter-feeding molluscan shellfish (with V.M. Bricelj) 1993-1995.
  • Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center - Investigations in the biology and culture of the Arctic surfclam (Mactromeris polynyma) and the Atlantic surfclam (Spisula solidissima) (with C. Davis) 1992-1993.
  • Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center - Survey of Bonamia Disease in European oysters in Maine (with C. Davis) 1992-1993.
  • Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center and Northeast Regional Aquaculture Center - Possible cytotoxic effects of Gyrodinium aureolum on juvenile shellfish (with R. Smolowitz) 1993.
  • Saltonstall-Kennedy (NOAA/NMFS) - Polyculture of sea scallops suspended from salmon net pens (subcontract from New England Fisheries Development Association) 1994-1995.
  • National Science Foundation - (Levinton, Ward and Shumway) - Feeding strategies and limitations of marine bivalves
  • Saltonstall-Kennedy (NOAA/NMFS) - A new harvest: Sea scallop enhancement and culture in New England. (subcontract from New England Fisheries Development Association)
  • US Environmental Protection Agency-National Science Foundation (Burkholder, Shumway, and Rublee) - Toxic ambush-predator dinoflagellates: Potential biosensors of estuarine stress.
  • National Science Foundation SBIR-Phase I - (Davis and Shumway) - Aquaculture development of Stimpson's surfclam, Mactromeris polynyma.
  • Hudson River Foundation and NY Sea Grant (Levinton, Shumway and Ward) - Feeding responses of zebra mussels and effects on biodeposition and soft bottom communities, Hudson River Estuary.
  • The Moore Foundation (Shumway and Sadove) New York marine turtle population monitoring program.
  • ECOHAB (Wikfors, Shumway, Dam, McManus, Smolowitz) Trophic effects of two dinoflagellates.
  • Connecticut Sea Grant (McManus, Wikfors, Shumway, Dam, Smolowitz, Martin) Trophic effects of two dinoflagellates upon representative pelagic and benthic consumers.
  • NOAA/NMFS Cooperative Marine Education and Research Program (CMERS) - Factors governing the perceived decline in bluefish abundance along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
  • National Science Foundation (Levinton, Ward, Shumway) Feeding selectivity and strategies of marine bivalves
  • ECOHAB Comparative biology, toxins, and bloom activity of Pfiesteria-like species; Impacts of Pfiesteria piscicida on filter-feeding shellfish and the role of shellfish as possible toxin vectors.
  • NOAA/NMFS Cooperative Marine Education and Research Program (CMERS)
  • National Science Foundation (Ward and Shumway) Functional mechanisms of control in the bivalve pump: an experimental approach to resolve current controversy
  • ECOHAB-EPA (Shumway, Wikfors, Burkholder) Assessment of the potential for introduction of harmful algal bloom (HAB) species via shellfish transport
  • Northeast Regional Aquaculture Center Effects of temperature on the infection of hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) by the protistan organism, quahog parasite unknown.
  • NOAA/National Sea Grant (Whitlatch, Shumway, Osman, Adams, Getchis) The control of aquatic nuisance species in marine aquaculture operations
  • National Science Foundation (Serb and Shumway) A multi-gene phylogeny of scallops (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinidae) and an examination of morphological and behavioral trait evolution.
  • NOAA Marine Aquaculture Program: Molluscan Shellfish Aquaculture and the Environment
  • NSF: Collaborative Research: separating the grain from the chaff: a functional and comparable approach to elucidate particle selection mechanisms in suspension-feeding molluscs
  • NOAA Marine Aquaculture Program: Molluscan shellfish aquaculture and the environment
  • Saltonstall-Kennedy (NOAA/NMFS) Biofouling tunicates on aquaculture gear as potential vectors of harmful algal introductions