Dr. David Burdick is Research Associate Professor of Coastal Ecology and Restoration in the Department of Natural Resources at the University of New Hampshire, where he has taught wetlands courses over the past twenty years. His study of coastal science spans 35 years, concentrating on coastal ecosystems, assessing human impacts, and planning, implementing and assessing habitat restoration at the Jackson Estuarine Laboratory, where he serves as Interim Director. In 2012 he was awarded the Susan Snow-Cotter Visionary Award from the Gulf of Maine Council for the Marine Environment. He recently published a book with Charles Roman to translate and extend lessons learned from tidal restoration of salt marshes in the Northeast US and Canada. Outreach products include Dock Design with the Environment in Mind (to protect eelgrass), Eelgrass Site Selection Model, and two habitat restoration atlases for coastal New Hampshire. Recent projects include: shoreline rehabilitation at sites in NH and Maine, a coastal resilience initiative to plan for sea level rise in Portsmouth NH, and measuring responses of salt marshes to rising sea level, including blue carbon.
Research Interests
- Coastal Processes
- Ecology
- Environmental Restoration/Remediation
- Estuarine Sciences
Selected Publications
Payne, A. R., Burdick, D. M., Moore, G. E., & Wigand, C. (2021). Short-Term Effects of Thin-Layer Sand Placement on Salt Marsh Grasses: A Marsh Organ Field Experiment. JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH, 37(4), 771-778. doi:10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-20-00072.1
Diefenderfer, H. L., Steyer, G. D., Harwell, M. C., LoSchiavo, A. J., Neckles, H. A., Burdick, D. M., . . . Twilley, R. R. (2021). Applying cumulative effects to strategically advance large-scale ecosystem restoration. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 19(2), 108-117. doi:10.1002/fee.2274
Moore, G. E., Burdick, D. M., Routhier, M. R., Novak, A. B., & Payne, A. R. (2021). Effects of a large-scale, natural sediment deposition event on plant cover in a Massachusetts salt marsh. PLOS ONE, 16(1). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0245564
Burdick, D. M., Moore, G. E., Adamowicz, S. C., Wilson, G. M., & Peter, C. R. (2020). Mitigating the Legacy Effects of Ditching in a New England Salt Marsh. ESTUARIES AND COASTS, 43(7), 1672-1679. doi:10.1007/s12237-019-00656-5
Moore, G. E., Burdick, D. M., & Payne, A. R. (2020). Determining How Soil Amendments Enhance the Recovery of Ammophila breviligulata Following Dune Die-Off Events in Coastal New England. JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH, 36(1), 88-93. doi:10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-19-00026.1
Hazelton, E. L. G., Mozdzer, T. J., Burdick, D. M., Kettenring, K. M., & Whigham, D. F. (2014). SPECIAL ISSUE: Phragmites australis in North America and Europe Phragmites australis management in the United States: 40 years of methods and outcomes. AOB PLANTS, 6. doi:10.1093/aobpla/plu001
Neckles, H. A., Dionne, M., Burdick, D. M., Roman, C. T., Buchsbaum, R., & Hutchins, E. (2002). A monitoring protocol to assess tidal restoration of salt marshes on local and regional scales. RESTORATION ECOLOGY, 10(3), 556-563. doi:10.1046/j.1526-100X.2002.02033.x
Seliskar, D. M., Gallagher, J. L., Burdick, D. M., & Mutz, L. A. (2002). The regulation of ecosystem functions by ecotypic variation in the dominant plant: a Spartina alterniflora salt-marsh case study. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, 90(1), 1-11. doi:10.1046/j.0022-0477.2001.00632.x
Short, F. T., & Burdick, D. M. (1996). Quantifying eelgrass habitat loss in relation to housing development and nitrogen loading in Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts. ESTUARIES, 19(3), 730-739. doi:10.2307/1352532
SHORT, F. T., BURDICK, D. M., & KALDY, J. E. (1995). MESOCOSM EXPERIMENTS QUANTIFY THE EFFECTS OF EUTROPHICATION ON EELGRASS, ZOSTERA-MARINA. LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY, 40(4), 740-749. doi:10.4319/lo.1995.40.4.0740
