Fisheries Conservation

Principal Investigator

2024-2025. Modeling drivers of blue crab recruitment, abundance and resilience in the Chesapeake Bay - Biological data mining, synthesis and discovery ($46,500 over 1 year). NOAA. PI: Ogburn M.

2024-2025. ATN Data Management ($90,000 over 1 year). IOOS. PI: Ogburn M.

2024-2025. Benchmark quantitative fishery stock assessment for blue crab in Chesapeake Bay (SERC portion: $21,613 over 2 years). Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. PIs: Wilberg M, Ogburn MB, et al.

2024. Patapsco River dam removal monitoring ($24,837 over 1 year). American Rivers. PI: Ogburn MB.

2024-2025. MoveBON: Creating a thematic biodiversity observation network to advance global conservatoin through the study animal movement ($73,865 over 1 year). Smithsonian Our Shared Future: Life on a Sustainable Planet. PIs: Hughey L, Ogburn MB.

2024. Validating a portfolio approach to quantifying seagrass ecosystem services for conservation and restoration ($69,673 over 1 year). Smithsonian Our Shared Future: Life on a Sustainable Planet. PIs: Duffy E, Ogburn MB, Pagenkopp Lohan KM.

2024. Underwater imaging for oyster restoration and conservation ($59,888 over 1 year). Smithsonian Office of the Under Secretary for Science. PI: Ogburn M.

2024-2028. Mid-Atlantic MBON: Dynamic biodiversity and telemetry data for a changing coast ($1,750,000 over 4 years). NOPP Marine Life Program. PIs: Kuska G, Ogburn MB, Bailey H, Carlisle A, Knee K, Meyer C, Roarty H, Secor D, Thielen P.

2024-2028. An operational BioTrack: Monitoring at-risk marine species biodiversity hotspot interactions with management and resource use areas to support stakeholder needs in the face of global change ($1,750,000 over 4 years). NOPP Marine Life Program. PIs: Hammerschlag N, Levenson J, Sasso C, Cudney J, Collier C, Ogburn MB, Sulikowski J, Golet W, Black C, Mueller-Karger F, Motyka J, Ford M, Dorton J, Bochenek R.

2023-2024. Community-based monitoring of restored oyster reefs to increase coastal resilience ($71,420 over 1 year). Smithsonian Our Shared Fututre: Life on a Sustainable Planet. PIs: Davis A, Ogburn MB, Cawood A.

2023-2025. Testing the feasibility of responsible stock enhancement of blue swimmer crab (Portunus pelagicus) in Indonesia ($330,319 over 2 years). National Fisheries Institute. PIs: Ogburn MB, Hines AH.

2023-2024. ATN Data Management ($90,000 over 1 year). IOOS. PI: Ogburn, M.

2023-2025. Best practices in acoustic telemetry for offshore wind ($275,000 over 2 years). NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center. PI: Ogburn, MB.

2023-2026. Migration ecology of river herring in a changing climate ($445,623 over 3 years). NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office. PIs: Legett HD, Nelson TR, Ryan J, Ogburn MB. 

2023-2024. Establishing a participatory science program to engage the public in oyster restoration monitoring ($27,943 over 2 years). Chesapeake Bay Trust. PIs: Davis A, Ogburn MB, Cawood A.

2023-2024. Increasing oyster restoration capacity in the Rappahannock River ($846,600 over 2 years). National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. PIs: Hofman B, Ogburn MB, et al.

2022-2024. Comprehensive South River and Herring Bay sanctuary scale oyster restoration, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland ($50,000 over 2 years). Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership.  PIs: Colden A, Ogburn MB.

2022-2023. Animal Telemetry Network Data Manager for the Atlantic Cooperative Telemetry Network ($69,153 over 1 year). NOAA IOOS. PI: Ogburn MB.

2022-2023. Anadromous fish restoration in a changing climate ($60,242 over 1 year). Smithsonian Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Research, Life on a Sustainable Plan. PIs: Ogburn MB, Legett HD.

2022. Raising the bar: Oyster science and innovative resources for educators and youth ($9,900 over 1 year). Chesapeake Oyster Alliance. PIs: Ogburn MB, McDonald K. 

2022-2024. Leveraging multispecies and multiyear telemetry datasets to identify seasonal, ontogenetic, and interannual shifts in habitat use and phenology of Chesapeake Bay fishes ($249,017 over 2 years). NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office. PIs: Furey NB, Ogburn MB, Legett HD.

2021-2022. Animal Telemetry Network Data Manager for the Atlantic Cooperative Telemetry Network ($69,531 over 1 year). NOAA IOOS. PI: Ogburn MB.

2021-2022. Validating a rapid assessment protocol for monitoring subtidal oyster reefs ($86,605 over 1 year). NOAA. PIs: Ogburn MB, Tracy AM.

2021. Tennenbaum Marine Observatory Network - MarineGEO Chesapeake Bay ($73,292 over 1 year). PI: Ogburn MB.

2020-2022. River herring response to dam removal in the Patapsco River (MD) (200,286 over 2 years). National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Smithsonian Institution. PIs: Ogburn MB, Plough LV.

2020-2022. Advancing monitoring and management of mid-Atlantic alosine fishes with eDNA analysis ($210,393 over 2 years). Maryland Sea Grant. PIs: Plough LV, Ogburn MB.  

2020-2021. Bridging the land-sea interface: Chesapeake Bay as a model ecosystem for conservation science, partnerships, and actions ($100,000 over 1 year). Smithsonian Institution Working Land and Seascapes Initiative. PIs: Komatsu K, Ogburn MB, Johnson A, Lacher I.

2020. Complex threats to ecosystem restoration: Interactive effects of parasites and bioeroders on oyster reefs ($73,849 over 1 year). Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Studies. PIs: Ogburn MB, Lohan KP, Tracy AM.

2020. Tennenbaum Marine Observatory Network - MarineGEO Chesapeake Bay ($91,109 over 1 year). PIs: Ogburn MB.

2019-2022. The value of shallow water nursery habitats of upper Chesapeake Bay to the Summer Flounder Paralichthys dentatus ($233,058 over 2 years). NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office. PIs: Ogburn MB, Lohan KP, Bangley CW.

2019. Tennenbaum Marine Observatory Network - MarineGEO Chesapeake Bay ($86,401 over 1 year). PIs: Ogburn MB, Miller W.

2019. Barcoding the invertebrates of the Chesapeake Bay bioblitz. Smithsonian Institution DNA Barcode Network ($7,000). PI: Ogburn MB.

2019. Chesapeake Working Land and Seascapes. Anonymous donor to SI’s Working Land and Seascapes Initiative ($120,000). PIs: Ogburn MB, Komatsu K.

2019. Leveraging the Chesapeake Bay fish collection for eDNA studies. Smithsonian Institution DNA Barcode Network ($7,000). PI: Ogburn MB.

2018-2022. Integrative assessment of the quality of shallow tributary forage habitats for Striped Bass in Chesapeake Bay ($240,011 over 2 years). NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office. PIs: Ogburn MB, Lohan KP, Hines AH.

2018-2021. Management of MATOS for the ATN ($225,000 over 3 years). NOAA IOOS Animal Telemetry Network. PIs: Ogburn MB, MARACOOS.

2018-2019. Habitat use patterns and migratory connectivity of Cownose Rays (Rhinoptera bonasus) in Pamlico Sound ($16,870 over two years). North Carolina Aquarium Society. PI: Bangley CW.

2018-2019. Crossroads of Arabia: Smithsonian-Saudi Aramco biodiversity monitoring ($500,000 over 1 year). Aramco Services Company. PIs: Leimgruber P, Marra P, Ogburn MB.

2016-2020. River Herring spawning run monitoring in Chesapeake Bay – II (MD, VA) ($587,956 over 3 years). National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Smithsonian Institution. PIs: Ogburn MB, Hines AH.