Welcome to UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science & Technology (SMAST), a nationally and internationally acknowledged establishment for schooling and analysis in marine science and ocean expertise. We are a collaborative group of devoted college students and skilled school working collectively to deal with vital challenges in marine science whereas fostering a supportive and collegial surroundings.
SMAST college students and school play a key function in addressing probably the most pressing points going through our world’s oceans, together with local weather change and ocean impacts, meals safety by way of sustainable fisheries, sustainable vitality growth and related impacts, and coastal ecosystem resilience.
Marine Science Graduate Programs
SMAST provides marine science graduate degree programs on the grasp’s and PhD degree. Our packages give attention to interdisciplinary basic-to-applied marine sciences and the event of associated modern applied sciences.
In addition to the scholarly marine science and expertise communities, the SMAST mission additionally emphasizes interplay with regional business, and authorities and non-governmental companies on compelling regional marine-related points and technological growth.
Research
SMAST graduate college students and school are engaged in a variety of research projects that contribute to our understanding of the marine surroundings and handle urgent environmental points.
Our analysis focuses on numerous elements of marine science, together with marine ecology, oceanography, fisheries science, marine expertise, and extra. In shut collaboration with different analysis establishments, authorities companies, fisheries, and business companions, we attempt to make a significant impression in marine science and contribute to the worldwide effort in direction of a more healthy and extra sustainable marine surroundings.
Areas of analysis focus at SMAST embrace:
- biogeochemical biking
- coastal ecosystem dynamics and restoration
- computational modeling
- fisheries science and administration
- marine ecosystems and local weather
- marine renewable vitality specializing in windfarm growth
- ocean observing/distant sensing
- ocean physics and engineering
Our Location
UMass Dartmouth’s SMAST is situated on Clark’s Cove in New Bedford, MA. New Bedford is the #1 most respected fishing port within the U.S. and is a regional hub for New England’s blue financial system. We are 9 nautical miles from Cape Cod, and 83 miles south of Boston, offering quick access to partnerships with neighboring coastal communities and analysis establishments.
SMAST’s campus consists of two foremost buildings (SMAST East and SMAST West) that home state-of-the-art testing facilities, seawater labs, superior expertise, supercomputers, and convention amenities, in addition to a analysis pier.
Student Outcomes
Graduates of SMAST’s grasp’s and PhD packages go on to prestigious postdoctoral analysis positions and thrilling careers in academia, conservation, marine useful resource administration, and extra.
You’ll discover SMAST alumni working at:
- The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
- Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
- Maine Department of Marine Resources
- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
- Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
- National Center for Atmospheric Research
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- New England Fishery Management Council
- Ocean Wind
- SouthCoast Wind
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution