June 2025

The Baywatchers nutrient samples will be analyzed at the Woodwell Climate Research Center starting with the first nutrient collection day on July 7. Helen Sears, a biogeochemist who trained at the University of New Hampshire, joined Woodwell and the COMBB team and will oversee the laboratory. Summer research assistant Olivia Bonevich from the University of California, Los Angeles, joined her in the laboratory and is also looking at the potential policies that towns can implement to meet their required nitrogen reduction targets.