About
Dr. Micheline Labrie serves as the Director of the Coastal Systems Program at SMAST (CSP/SMAST). CSP/SMAST is the logistical, educational and data synthesis center for water quality monitoring, assessments, and management planning throughout Southeast Massachusetts. Dr. Labrie’s research centers on the processes controlling the relationships between nutrient loading (nitrogen, phosphorus) and the ecological health of watersheds, freshwater and saltwater lakes and ponds, nearshore coastal waters, and coastal embayments. She is currently working with federal, state and local agencies to develop new approaches for implementation of ecosystem management based on the use of quantitative environmental data of individual systems. Dr. Labrie’s research group conducted the Massachusetts Estuaries Project, which provided the technical basis for nitrogen Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) to restore eelgrass and benthic functions in over 70 estuaries in southeastern Massachusetts for MassDEP and US Environmental Protection Agency.