The CRC’s new program of Student Recruitment, Early Advisement, and Mentoring (a.k.a. “Chesapeake StREAM” or “C-StREAM”) got off to a great start in 2018, thanks to early funding from the US EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) and the CRC member institutions, as well as promises of additional future funding from a renewal of our cooperative agreement with NOAA's Chesapeake [...]
Dear colleagues, I hope you all are having a great summer. The patterns of daily weather change have certainly been unusual (at least to the best of my own rusty memory ...), but I think we've all been well warned that variability and heat are on the long-term rise in our region. Meanwhile, though, there have certainly been some [...]
As part of a new program described elsewhere in this newsletter and short-handed as C StREAM (for "Chesapeake Student Recruitment, Early Advisement, and Mentoring"), the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) partnership and Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC) are seeking applicants for three summer intern positions in Summer 2018 (June – August) to provide support to the Chesapeake Bay [...]
As reported in the first issue of this CRC Quarterly Newsletter , Virginia Tech (also known as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) is the newest member of the Chesapeake Research Consortium. Virginia Tech (VT) has a long-standing association with the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Partnership that goes back to the CBP's beginnings, when Dr. Clifford [...]
As per our web page, the CRC’s mission is to “encourage and facilitate collaborative research and education initiatives throughout the region and, from these activities, to inform the management community and effectively foster improved science-based management of the Chesapeake Bay and its watersheds.” For the scientists at our member institutions and, indeed, for scientists at any of the [...]
Dear Colleagues, Let me begin this quarter's Director's Corner with a mutually beneficial and brief request: Please help CRC to grow the value and influence of our consortium, and your work, by taking the following actions and encouraging other Bay-minded colleagues to do the same. Register in the Chesapeake Bay Expertise Database (CBED) Subscribe to our CRC Quarterly [...]
