Danielle Kreeger

Working with MANY partners, collaborators and students, Danielle has been the architect of diverse new initiatives to address key management and restoration gaps related to freshwater and estuarine natural resources such as tidal marshes, oyster reefs, and freshwater mussel beds. Supported by hundreds of grants, these science-based programs include the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Wetland Assessment, Delaware Estuary Living Shoreline Initiative, Delaware Estuary Benthic Inventory, Freshwater Mussel Recovery Program, Mussels for Clean Water Initiative, and Regional Restoration Blueprint. Danielle's specific research interests include: • Coastal wetland ecology, monitoring and restoration • Nature-based solutions for sustaining key ecosystem services, such as living shorelines • Effects of suspension-feeders on aquatic food webs, energy & nutrient cycling, and water quality • Physiological ecology of freshwater and marine bivalves • Restoration and enhancement of freshwater and marine shellfish populations for ecosystem services