IAN has teamed up with oceanographers at our home campus of Horn Point Laboratory and at the Department of Natural Resources in order to revisit a growing concern of algal blooms off Assateague Island National Seashore on the Southern Eastern Shore. IAN's role in this project involves synthesizing data collected offshore and helping to establish relevant thresholds for offshore nutrient data, as well as aiding in communication of the studies data and findings.

IAN has maintained a robust relationship with the Future Earths Coasts (FEC) group since their inception in 2015. This group has an overarching goal of strengthening the science-policy interface and contributing to sustainable coastal futures in the new epoch called the Anthropocene. IAN has had the unique opportunity of helping the group at FEC to refine these goals and realize a vision to accomplish these goals.

The goal of OysterFutures is to develop recommendations for oyster policies and management that meet the needs of industry, citizen, and government stakeholders in the Choptank and Little Choptank Rivers.