Our database is growing! Last year, we launched the Chesapeake Bay Expertise Database, a tool to connect Bay scientists. Anyone can use CBED to find collaborators, speakers, and mentors, as it is searchable by name, institution, expertise, research interests, and Chesapeake Bay management areas. There are currently 252 scientists enrolled in CBED, ranging across dozens of [...]
The collection of "Recent CRC Community Publications" (RCCP) is intended as a service to CRC members and partners for identifying and exploring Chesapeake-related scientific contributions in the context of both the institutional source of the contributions and Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) goals. Note that the CRC maintains an electronic bibliographic file of this entire database that can be exported [...]
Image from The Daily Record Kacey Wetzel is the Director of Outreach and Education for The Chesapeake Bay Trust, and was recently named one of 100 Leading Women by The Daily Record, an award that highlights successful women under 40 in Maryland "judged on professional experience, community involvement and their commitment to inspiring change." [...]
Photo from Tal Ezer (ODU) Like most people in Hampton Roads, Old Dominion University (ODU) President John R. Broderick is directly impacted by sea level rise. Dr. Broderick sees how rising waters, from a high tide or storm event, regularly flood the ODU campus in Norfolk, Virginia. Much of coastal Virginia struggles with understanding [...]
Researchers from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) were recently awarded a Research Coordination Network (RCN) grant from the National Science Foundation with the goal of accelerating the pace of discovery in coastal carbon science by serving a community of researchers and practitioners with data, tools, and synthesis. Tidal marshes, mangrove swamps, and seagrass meadows collectively form [...]
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Professor Emeritus Walter Boynton receiving the Carl S. Weber award at the Maryland Water Monitoring Council Annual Conference. Photo from Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Walter Boynton has spent decades investigating Chesapeake Bay working to understand more about the health of its ecosystem as a professor and researcher for the University of [...]
For nearly seven decades, wild oyster (Crassostrea virginica) populations in the Chesapeake Bay have languished at the mercy of two marine parasites. The rugged looking oyster proved to be not so hardy when infected by either Haplosporidium nelsoni, responsible for MSX, or Perkinsus marinus (aka Dermo for its original classification as Dermocystidium marinum). Both are single-celled parasites that infect oysters and when infection [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is providing an additional $150,000 to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) to continue support for managing and improving the computer technology used for Chesapeake Bay restoration. “Clean water is a top priority for EPA,” said EPA Regional Administrator Cosmo Servidio. “This continuing collaboration [...]
Lorie Staver scans the green and golden marsh on a small stretch of land in Chesapeake Bay called Poplar Island. It’s something she has done hundreds of times from her graduate student days to now, as an Assistant Research Scientist for the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Horn Point Laboratory. Staver at Poplar [...]
The "Recent CRC Community Publications" (RCCP) collection is a new feature of the CRC web page to increase community access to peer-reviewed publications authored or co-authored by individuals employed at CRC member institutions of other Chesapeake Bay Program partners and who are registered with CBED. It is populated by submissions (nominations) from the authors themselves or by colleagues. [...]
