Technical Reports and Publications
Grizzle, R.E., K.M. Ward, L. Geselbracht, A. Birch. 2018. Distribution and Condition of Intertidal Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Reefs in Apalachicola Bay Florida Based on High-Resolution Satellite Imagery. Journal of Shellfish Research 37(5):1027-1038.
Grizzle, R.E., A. Rasmussen, A.J. Martignette, K.M. Ward, and L.D. Coen. 2018. Mapping seston depletion over an intertidal eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginca) reef: Implications for restoration of multiple habitats. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 212 (2018) 265-272.
Grizzle, R.E., M.V. Bricelj, R.M. AlShihi, K.M. Ward and D.M. Anderson. 2018. Marine Molluscs in nearshore habitats of the United Arab Emirates: Decadal changes and species of public health significance. Journal of Coastal Research: Volume 34, Issue 5: pp. 1157 - 1175. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 07490208.
Lodge, J., R. Grizzle, K. Ward, P. Malinowski, and K. Moser-Smith. 2017. Tappan Zee Bridge Oyster Restoration Pilot Study. FINAL REPORT to Hudson River Foundation, New York, NY.
Lodge, J., R.G. Grizzle, and Krystin Ward. 2017. The Jamaica Bay Oyster Research Pilot Project. Sediment and Benthos Sampling Report. REPORT to The New York City Department of Environmental Protection.
Grizzle, R.E. and K.M. Ward, 2017. “2016 Oyster Reef Restoration Project Funded by the Aquatic Resources Mitigation Program”. FINAL REPORT to Piscataqua Region Estuarine Partnership. 368.
Grizzle, R.E., K.M. Ward, C.R. Peter, M. Cantwell, D. Katz, and J. Sullivan. 2016. Growth, morphometrics, and nutrient content of farmed eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin), in New Hampshire, USA. Aquaculture Research 2016:1-13. Doi:10.1111/are.12988.
Grizzle, R.E. and K.W. Ward, 2016. “Assessment of Recent Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) reef restoration projects in the Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire: Planning for the Future. FINAL REPRT to Piscataqua Region Estuarine Partnership. 353.
Milbrandt, E.C., M. Thompson, L.D. Coen, R.E. Grizzle, and K. Ward. 2015. A multiple habitat restoration strategy in a semi-enclosed Florida embayment, combining hydrologic restoration, mangrove propagule plantings and oyster substrate additions. Ecological Engineering 83:394-404.
Lodge, J., R. Grizzle, L. Coen, A. Mass Fitzgerald, M. Comi, P. Malinowski. 2015. Community Based Restoration of Oyster Reef Habitat in the Bronx River: Assessing Approaches and Results in an Urbanized Setting. FINAL REPORT of the NOAA/WCS Regional Partnership Grant, New York, NY.
Hoellein, T.J., Zarnock, C.B., Grizzle, R.E., 2015. Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) filtration, biodeposition, and sediment nitrogen cycling at two oyster reefs with contrasting water quality in Great Bay Estuary (New Hampshire, USA). Biogeochemistry (2015) 122:113-129 DOI 10.1007/s10533-014-0034-7.
Moore, G.E., Grizzle, R.E., Ward, K.M., and Alshihi, 2014 R.M. Distribution, pore-water chemistry, and stand characteristics of the mangroves of the United Arab Emirates. Journal of Coastal Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-14-00142.1
Grizzle, R.E., Ward, L.G., Fredriksson, D.W., Irish, J.D., Langan, R., Heinig, C.S., Greene, J.K., Abeels, H.A., Peter, C.R., Eberhardt, A.L., (2014). Long-term seafloor monitoring at an open ocean aquaculture site in the western Gulf of Maine, USA: Development of an adaptive protocol. Mar. Pollut. Bull. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/.marpolbul.2014.09.014.
Konisky, R., R.E. Grizzle, K.M. Ward, R. Eckerd, and K. McKeton, 2014. “Scaling-Up: A Fifth Year of Restoring Oyster Reefs in Great Bay Estuary, NH 2013 Annual Program Report. FINAL REPORT to Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership. 40.
Grizzle, R.E. and Krystin Ward, 2013. Oyster Bed Mapping in the Great Bay Estuary, 2012-2013. A Final Report to the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership and New Hampshire department of Environmental Services.
Grizzle, R.E. and L.D. Coen, 2013. Slow-down and reach out (and we’ll be there): a response to “shellfish as living infrastructure” by Kate Orff. Ecological Restoration 31:325-329.
Zu Ermgassen, P.S.E., M.D. Spalding, R.E. Grizzle and R.D. Brumbaugh. 2012. Quantifying the loss of marine ecosystem service: filtration by the eastern oyster in US estuaries. Estuaries and Coasts DOI 10.1007/s12237-012-9559-y.
Zu Ermgassen, P.S.E., M.D. Spalding, B. Blake, L.D. Coen, B. Dumbauld, S. Geiger, J.H. Grabowski, R. Grizzle, M. Luckenbach, K. MacGraw, W. Rodney, J.L. Ruesink, S.P. Powers and R.D. Brumbaugh. 2012. Historical ecology with real numbers: past and present extent and biomass of an imperiled estuarine habitat. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B DOI 10.1098/rspb.2012.0313.
Grizzle, Raymond E. and Krystin Ward. 2011. Experimental Quantification of Nutrient Bioextraction Potential of Oysters in Estuarine Waters of New Hampshire. A Final Report to The Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership.
Grizzle, Raymond E. and Krystin Ward. 2009. Restoration of Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Habitat for Multiple Estuarine Species Benefits. A Final Report to The Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership.
Grizzle, Raymond E. and Krystin Ward. 2009. Video-Based Mapping of Oyster Bottom in the Upper Piscataqua River, Sturgeon Creek, and Spruce Creek. A Final Report to The Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership.
Grizzle, Raymond E., Semme Dijkstra, and Brian Smith. 2008. Development of a General Protocol for Characterizing Subtidal Oyster Reefs Using Remote Sensing Techniques. New Hampshire Sea Grant Project Completion Report (Project Number R/MED-2)
Grizzle, Raymond E., Jennifer K. Greene, and Loren D. Coen. 2008. Seston Removal by Natural and Constructed Intertidal Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea Virginica) Reefs: A Comparison with Previous Laboratory Studies, and the Value of in situ Methods. Estuaries and Coasts. Volume 31. pp 1208-1220.
Grizzle, Raymond E., Melissa Brodeur, Holly A. Abeels, and Jennifer K. Greene. 2008. Bottom Habitat Mapping Using Towed Underwater Videography: Subtidal Oyster Reefs as an Example Application. Journal of Coastal Research. Volume 24. Number 1. pp 103-109.
Capone, Mark, Ray Grizzle, Arthur C. Mathieson, and Odell, Jay. 2008 Intertidal Oysters in Northern New England. Northeastern Naturalist. Volume 15. Number 2. pp. 209-214.
McDermott, David Burdick, Raymond Grizzle, and Jennifer Greene. Restoring Ecological Functions and Increasing Community Awareness of an Urban Tidal Pond Using Blue Mussels. 2008. Ecological Restoration Volume 26. Number 3. pp. 254-262.
Coen, Loren D., and Raymond E. Grizzle. 2007. The Importance of Habitat Created by Molluscan Shellfish to Managed Species along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Atlantic States Fisheries Commission. Habitat Management Series #8.
Coen, Loren D., Robert D. Brumbaugh, David Bushek, Raymond Grizzle, Mark W. Luckenbach, Martin H. Posey, Sean P. Powers and Gregory S. Tolley. 2007. Ecosystem Services Related to Oyster Restoration. Marine Ecology Progress Series. Volume 341. pp 303-307.
Grizzle, Raymond E., Jennifer K. Greene, Mark W. Luckenbach, and Loren D. Coen. 2006. A New in situ Method for Measuring Seston Uptake by Suspension-feeding Bivalve Molluscs. Journal of Shellfish Research, Volume 25, No. 2, 643-649.
Grizzle, Raymond, David Burdick, Jennifer Greene, Holly Abeels, and Mark Capone. Reef Structure Alternatives for Restoration of Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Populations in New Hampshire. 2006. Final Report submitted to The New Hampshire Estuaries Project.
Greene, Jennifer. Eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in New Hampshire: Their Demise and Restoration. Environmental Concern: All About Wetlands. Volume 1, Number 3. Spring 2005.
Greene, Jennifer and Raymond E. Grizzle. 2005. Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Restoration Studies in the Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire. Final Report. NERR Graduate Fellowship Program. NOAA Award Number: NA03NOS4200060.
Grizzle, Raymond E., Larry G. Ward, Jamie R. Adams, Semme J. Dijkstra, and Brian Smith. 2005. Mapping and Characterizing Subtidal Oyster Reefs Using Acoustic Techniques, Underwater Videography, and Quadrat Counts. American Fisheries Society Symposium. Volume 41. pp. 153-159.
Wall, Lisa M., Linda J. Walters, Raymond E. Grizzle, and Paul E. Sacks. 2005. Recreational Boating and its Impact on the Recruitment and Survival of the Oyster Crassostrea virginica on Intertidal Reefs in Mosquito Lagoon, Florida. Journal of Shellfish Research. Volume 24. Number 4. pp. 965-973.
Grizzle, Raymond E. and Melissa Brodeur. Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Reef Mapping in the Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire. 2003. Final Report to the New Hampshire Estuaries Project. August 2004.
Grizzle, Raymond, Stephen Jones, Roger Mann, and Mark Luckenbach. Restoring An Oyster Reef For Mitigation of Estuarine Water Quality. 2003. Final Report supmitted to NOAA/UNH Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET).
Grizzle, Raymond E., Jamie R. Adams, and Linda J. Walters. 2002. Historical Changes in Intertidal Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Reefs in a Florida Lagoon Potentially Related to Boating Activities. Journal of Shellfish Research. Volume 21. Number 2. pp. 749-756.
Grizzle, Raymond E., Richard Langan and Hunting Howell. 1992. Growth Responses of Suspension-feeding Bivalve Molluscs to Changes in Water Flow: Differences Between Siphonate and Nonsiphonate Taxa. Journal of Experimental Biology and Ecology. Volume 162. pp 213-228.
Grizzle, Raymond E. Distribution and Abundance of Crassostrea virginica (GMELIN, 1791) (Eastern Oyster) and Mercenaria spp. (Quahogs) in a Coastal Lagoon. 1990. Journal of Shellfish Research. Volume 9. Number 2. pp347-358.
Grizzle, R.E., A. Rasmussen, A.J. Martignette, K.M. Ward, and L.D. Coen. 2018. Mapping seston depletion over an intertidal eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginca) reef: Implications for restoration of multiple habitats. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 212 (2018) 265-272.
Grizzle, R.E., M.V. Bricelj, R.M. AlShihi, K.M. Ward and D.M. Anderson. 2018. Marine Molluscs in nearshore habitats of the United Arab Emirates: Decadal changes and species of public health significance. Journal of Coastal Research: Volume 34, Issue 5: pp. 1157 - 1175. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 07490208.
Lodge, J., R. Grizzle, K. Ward, P. Malinowski, and K. Moser-Smith. 2017. Tappan Zee Bridge Oyster Restoration Pilot Study. FINAL REPORT to Hudson River Foundation, New York, NY.
Lodge, J., R.G. Grizzle, and Krystin Ward. 2017. The Jamaica Bay Oyster Research Pilot Project. Sediment and Benthos Sampling Report. REPORT to The New York City Department of Environmental Protection.
Grizzle, R.E. and K.M. Ward, 2017. “2016 Oyster Reef Restoration Project Funded by the Aquatic Resources Mitigation Program”. FINAL REPORT to Piscataqua Region Estuarine Partnership. 368.
Grizzle, R.E., K.M. Ward, C.R. Peter, M. Cantwell, D. Katz, and J. Sullivan. 2016. Growth, morphometrics, and nutrient content of farmed eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin), in New Hampshire, USA. Aquaculture Research 2016:1-13. Doi:10.1111/are.12988.
Grizzle, R.E. and K.W. Ward, 2016. “Assessment of Recent Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) reef restoration projects in the Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire: Planning for the Future. FINAL REPRT to Piscataqua Region Estuarine Partnership. 353.
Milbrandt, E.C., M. Thompson, L.D. Coen, R.E. Grizzle, and K. Ward. 2015. A multiple habitat restoration strategy in a semi-enclosed Florida embayment, combining hydrologic restoration, mangrove propagule plantings and oyster substrate additions. Ecological Engineering 83:394-404.
Lodge, J., R. Grizzle, L. Coen, A. Mass Fitzgerald, M. Comi, P. Malinowski. 2015. Community Based Restoration of Oyster Reef Habitat in the Bronx River: Assessing Approaches and Results in an Urbanized Setting. FINAL REPORT of the NOAA/WCS Regional Partnership Grant, New York, NY.
Hoellein, T.J., Zarnock, C.B., Grizzle, R.E., 2015. Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) filtration, biodeposition, and sediment nitrogen cycling at two oyster reefs with contrasting water quality in Great Bay Estuary (New Hampshire, USA). Biogeochemistry (2015) 122:113-129 DOI 10.1007/s10533-014-0034-7.
Moore, G.E., Grizzle, R.E., Ward, K.M., and Alshihi, 2014 R.M. Distribution, pore-water chemistry, and stand characteristics of the mangroves of the United Arab Emirates. Journal of Coastal Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-14-00142.1
Grizzle, R.E., Ward, L.G., Fredriksson, D.W., Irish, J.D., Langan, R., Heinig, C.S., Greene, J.K., Abeels, H.A., Peter, C.R., Eberhardt, A.L., (2014). Long-term seafloor monitoring at an open ocean aquaculture site in the western Gulf of Maine, USA: Development of an adaptive protocol. Mar. Pollut. Bull. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/.marpolbul.2014.09.014.
Konisky, R., R.E. Grizzle, K.M. Ward, R. Eckerd, and K. McKeton, 2014. “Scaling-Up: A Fifth Year of Restoring Oyster Reefs in Great Bay Estuary, NH 2013 Annual Program Report. FINAL REPORT to Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership. 40.
Grizzle, R.E. and Krystin Ward, 2013. Oyster Bed Mapping in the Great Bay Estuary, 2012-2013. A Final Report to the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership and New Hampshire department of Environmental Services.
Grizzle, R.E. and L.D. Coen, 2013. Slow-down and reach out (and we’ll be there): a response to “shellfish as living infrastructure” by Kate Orff. Ecological Restoration 31:325-329.
Zu Ermgassen, P.S.E., M.D. Spalding, R.E. Grizzle and R.D. Brumbaugh. 2012. Quantifying the loss of marine ecosystem service: filtration by the eastern oyster in US estuaries. Estuaries and Coasts DOI 10.1007/s12237-012-9559-y.
Zu Ermgassen, P.S.E., M.D. Spalding, B. Blake, L.D. Coen, B. Dumbauld, S. Geiger, J.H. Grabowski, R. Grizzle, M. Luckenbach, K. MacGraw, W. Rodney, J.L. Ruesink, S.P. Powers and R.D. Brumbaugh. 2012. Historical ecology with real numbers: past and present extent and biomass of an imperiled estuarine habitat. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B DOI 10.1098/rspb.2012.0313.
Grizzle, Raymond E. and Krystin Ward. 2011. Experimental Quantification of Nutrient Bioextraction Potential of Oysters in Estuarine Waters of New Hampshire. A Final Report to The Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership.
Grizzle, Raymond E. and Krystin Ward. 2009. Restoration of Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Habitat for Multiple Estuarine Species Benefits. A Final Report to The Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership.
Grizzle, Raymond E. and Krystin Ward. 2009. Video-Based Mapping of Oyster Bottom in the Upper Piscataqua River, Sturgeon Creek, and Spruce Creek. A Final Report to The Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership.
Grizzle, Raymond E., Semme Dijkstra, and Brian Smith. 2008. Development of a General Protocol for Characterizing Subtidal Oyster Reefs Using Remote Sensing Techniques. New Hampshire Sea Grant Project Completion Report (Project Number R/MED-2)
Grizzle, Raymond E., Jennifer K. Greene, and Loren D. Coen. 2008. Seston Removal by Natural and Constructed Intertidal Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea Virginica) Reefs: A Comparison with Previous Laboratory Studies, and the Value of in situ Methods. Estuaries and Coasts. Volume 31. pp 1208-1220.
Grizzle, Raymond E., Melissa Brodeur, Holly A. Abeels, and Jennifer K. Greene. 2008. Bottom Habitat Mapping Using Towed Underwater Videography: Subtidal Oyster Reefs as an Example Application. Journal of Coastal Research. Volume 24. Number 1. pp 103-109.
Capone, Mark, Ray Grizzle, Arthur C. Mathieson, and Odell, Jay. 2008 Intertidal Oysters in Northern New England. Northeastern Naturalist. Volume 15. Number 2. pp. 209-214.
McDermott, David Burdick, Raymond Grizzle, and Jennifer Greene. Restoring Ecological Functions and Increasing Community Awareness of an Urban Tidal Pond Using Blue Mussels. 2008. Ecological Restoration Volume 26. Number 3. pp. 254-262.
Coen, Loren D., and Raymond E. Grizzle. 2007. The Importance of Habitat Created by Molluscan Shellfish to Managed Species along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Atlantic States Fisheries Commission. Habitat Management Series #8.
Coen, Loren D., Robert D. Brumbaugh, David Bushek, Raymond Grizzle, Mark W. Luckenbach, Martin H. Posey, Sean P. Powers and Gregory S. Tolley. 2007. Ecosystem Services Related to Oyster Restoration. Marine Ecology Progress Series. Volume 341. pp 303-307.
Grizzle, Raymond E., Jennifer K. Greene, Mark W. Luckenbach, and Loren D. Coen. 2006. A New in situ Method for Measuring Seston Uptake by Suspension-feeding Bivalve Molluscs. Journal of Shellfish Research, Volume 25, No. 2, 643-649.
Grizzle, Raymond, David Burdick, Jennifer Greene, Holly Abeels, and Mark Capone. Reef Structure Alternatives for Restoration of Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Populations in New Hampshire. 2006. Final Report submitted to The New Hampshire Estuaries Project.
Greene, Jennifer. Eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in New Hampshire: Their Demise and Restoration. Environmental Concern: All About Wetlands. Volume 1, Number 3. Spring 2005.
Greene, Jennifer and Raymond E. Grizzle. 2005. Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Restoration Studies in the Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire. Final Report. NERR Graduate Fellowship Program. NOAA Award Number: NA03NOS4200060.
Grizzle, Raymond E., Larry G. Ward, Jamie R. Adams, Semme J. Dijkstra, and Brian Smith. 2005. Mapping and Characterizing Subtidal Oyster Reefs Using Acoustic Techniques, Underwater Videography, and Quadrat Counts. American Fisheries Society Symposium. Volume 41. pp. 153-159.
Wall, Lisa M., Linda J. Walters, Raymond E. Grizzle, and Paul E. Sacks. 2005. Recreational Boating and its Impact on the Recruitment and Survival of the Oyster Crassostrea virginica on Intertidal Reefs in Mosquito Lagoon, Florida. Journal of Shellfish Research. Volume 24. Number 4. pp. 965-973.
Grizzle, Raymond E. and Melissa Brodeur. Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Reef Mapping in the Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire. 2003. Final Report to the New Hampshire Estuaries Project. August 2004.
Grizzle, Raymond, Stephen Jones, Roger Mann, and Mark Luckenbach. Restoring An Oyster Reef For Mitigation of Estuarine Water Quality. 2003. Final Report supmitted to NOAA/UNH Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET).
Grizzle, Raymond E., Jamie R. Adams, and Linda J. Walters. 2002. Historical Changes in Intertidal Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Reefs in a Florida Lagoon Potentially Related to Boating Activities. Journal of Shellfish Research. Volume 21. Number 2. pp. 749-756.
Grizzle, Raymond E., Richard Langan and Hunting Howell. 1992. Growth Responses of Suspension-feeding Bivalve Molluscs to Changes in Water Flow: Differences Between Siphonate and Nonsiphonate Taxa. Journal of Experimental Biology and Ecology. Volume 162. pp 213-228.
Grizzle, Raymond E. Distribution and Abundance of Crassostrea virginica (GMELIN, 1791) (Eastern Oyster) and Mercenaria spp. (Quahogs) in a Coastal Lagoon. 1990. Journal of Shellfish Research. Volume 9. Number 2. pp347-358.