Dr. Stephen Tomasetti

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Assistant Professor, School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences (SANS)
University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES)

Phone: (410) 651-6120 | Email: sjtomasetti@umes.edu | 

Website 

Education

Stony Brook University (2022) Ph.D. Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

City University of New York – Hunter College (2013) M.A. Education, Biology

University of Central Florida (2010) – B.S. Biology

Research Interests

  1. Global change ecology, including impacts of/resilience to climate change, eutrophication, and overfishing
  2. Shellfish ecology, aquaculture, and social-ecological systems
  3. Environmental Sensors
  4. Coastal habitat restoration
  5. Ocean and coastal warming, deoxygenation, and acidification

Selected Publications

  1. Tomasetti SJ, Doall MH, Hallinan BH, Kraemer Jr. JR, Gobler CJ (2023) Oyster reefs’ control of carbonate chemistry—Implications for oyster reef restoration in estuaries subject to coastal ocean acidification. Global Change Biology, (in press). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16960
  2. Tomasetti SJ, Hallinan BH, Tettelbach ST, Volkenborn N, Doherty OW, Allam B, Gobler CJ (2023) Warming and hypoxia reduce performance and survival of northern bay scallops (Argopecten irradians irradians) amid a fishery collapse. Global Change Biology, 29(8):2092-2107. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16575
  3. Tomasetti SJ, Gobler CJ (2023) Estuarine shellfish and climate change. In: MJ Kennish, HW Paerl, JA Crosswell (Eds.) Climate Change and Estuaries, CRC Press, pp. 451-474. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003126096
  4. Gobler CJ, Doall MH, Peterson BJ, Young CS, DeLaney F, Wallace RB, Tomasetti SJ, Curtin T, Morrell B, Lamoureux EM, Jankowiak J, Ueoka B, Griffith AW, Carroll JM, Nanjappa D, Jankowiak J, Goleski J, Famularo AM, Kang Y, Pikitch EK, Santora C, Heck SM, Cottrell DM, Chin DW, Kulp R (2022) Rebuilding a collapsed bivalve population, restoring seagrass meadows, and eradicating harmful algal blooms in a temperate lagoon using protected spawner sanctuaries. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 11731. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.911731
  5. Rodríguez-Villegas C, Díaz PA, Salgado P, Tomasetti SJ, Díaz M, Marin SL, Baldrich ÁM, Niklitschek E, Pino L, Matamala T, Espinosa K, Figueroa RI (2022) The role of physico-chemical interactions in the seasonality of toxic dinoflagellate cyst assemblages: the case of the NW Patagonian fjords system. Environmental Pollution, 119901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119901
  6. Young CS, Sylvers LH, Tomasetti SJ, Lundstrom A, Schenone C, Doall MR, Gobler CJ (2022) Kelp (Saccharina latissima) mitigates coastal acidification and increases the growth of North Atlantic bivalves in lab experiments and on an oyster farm. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9:881254. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.881254
  7. Tomasetti SJ, Kraemer Jr. JR, Gobler CJ (2021) Brief episodes of nocturnal hypoxia and acidification reduce survival of economically important blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) larvae. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:1190. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.720175
  8. Rodríguez-Villegas C, Lee MR, Salgado P, Figueroa RI, Baldrich Á, Perez-Santos I, Tomasetti SJ, Niklitschek E, Díaz M, Álvarez G, Marín SL, Seguel M, Díaz PA (2021) Drivers of dinoflagellate benthic cyst assemblages in the NW Patagonian Fjords System and its adjacent oceanic shelf, with a focus on harmful species. Science of the Total Environment, 785:147378. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147378
  9. Tomasetti SJ, Gobler CJ (2020) Dissolved oxygen and pH standards leave fisheries at risk. Science, 368(6489):372-373. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba4896
  10. Tomasetti SJ, Morrell BK, Merlo LR, Gobler CJ (2018) Individual and combined effects of low dissolved oxygen and low pH on survival of early-stage larval blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus. PLoS ONE, 13:E0208629. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208629

Biography

Dr. Stephen Tomasetti joins the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and the NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center as an Assistant Professor of Coastal Environmental Science. His research addresses the challenges posed by the climate crisis, eutrophication, and historic overfishing to the health of the coastal ocean. Tomasetti is interested in advancing climate-adaptive pathways toward the resilience or recovery of coastal shellfish and the ecosystems they support; he focuses on actions that will increase resilience, such as restoring seagrass meadows and oyster reefs, rebuilding depleted shellfish populations, and generating sustainable coastal food systems. He received his Ph.D. in Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University researching the effects of coastal change on blue crabs, bay scallops, sea scallops, and oysters.

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