Jackson Estuarine Laboratory (JEL)
JEL Web Site
The Jackson Estuarine Laboratory (JEL) has been a core facility of the Marine Program since the early 1970s. The laboratory, located on Adam’s Point along picturesque Furber Strait in Great Bay, has been the home for estuarine research ranging from salt marsh and eelgrass ecology, to shellfish aquaculture, invertebrate zoology, microbial ecology, macroalgae biology, coastal geology and nutrient biogeochemistry.
The JEL provides faculty and students access to Great Bay for both research and education programs and is home to a majority of the small boats in the UNH fleet. The lab provides flowing estuarine water to a wet lab within the building and to an experimental greenhouse and outdoors mesocosm facility. Currently, JEL is home to eight resident faculty and a number of permanent staff, research associates, graduate students and visiting faculty.
JEL is the base of operations for numerous programs, including: SeagrassNet, an international seagrass monitoring program directed by Dr. Fred Short; the Great Bay System-Wide Monitoring Program, a NOAA-National Estuarine Research Reserve Program overseen by Dr. Jonathan Pennock; and the New Hampshire component of the National Coastal Assessment, an EPA sponsored program directed by Dr. Stephen Jones.
Jonathan Pennock serves as Director of JEL and the laboratory is overseen by David Shay, the Lab Manager. For more information on JEL, please contact Jonathan or Dave or follow the above link to the JEL Home Page.