Researchers will evaluate three feeding systems and availability of roughage to inform feeding management and reduce abnormal behaviors in horses kept in dry lots.

Researchers will study how different lighting systems affect the behavior, circadian rhythm (body clock) and well-being of stabled horses.

Researchers will investigate how therapy horses respond to touch by people to improve our awareness of the horse’s experience and inform best practice guidelines for therapy horses.

Researchers will develop new release hatches for crab traps to curb the bycatch drowning of diamondback terrapins in coastal areas where turtle populations overlap with blue crab fisheries.

Researchers will examine the impact of urbanization on North American river otter health across tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay.

Researchers will study how urbanization affects the ecology and health of white ibis and potentially other coastal wetland bird species.