The Future of C-StREAM: Seeking Additional Funders and Mentors for 2020 As the CRC and our partners wind up our 2019 summer internship programs, we have already begun thinking about 2020. Toward that end, I encourage ALL newsletter readers to please think about how they might assist with this this important program. Possible means include: [...]
August 11, 2019 Dear Colleagues, TRANSITION is a very definite theme this year here for both the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership and the CRC. Within the CRC and its cooperative programs with EPA and NOAA, 2019 has or will bring: A new CRC Director before the end of the year as yours truly steps down to [...]
How One Family Shaped Bay Research: Tracking the Odum Lineage The Odum name has been largely synonymous with ecology for decades. Despite that, many younger scientists may not be fully aware of the Odum family’s tremendous contributions to the field of ecology and specifically, the implications of their research on how the Chesapeake Bay is [...]
If you have to assign a theme to 2019 in the Environmental Management Career Development Program it would be TRANSITION! By the end of the year, almost half of our Staffer family will have moved on to new career adventures in exciting positions or to continue building their educational foundations in graduate school. While we will [...]
In June, the Chesapeake Bay Program's Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team (“Fisheries GIT”) held their biannual meeting at UMCES' Horn Point Lab in Cambridge, Maryland. The meeting focused on the outlook for blue crabs this season, fish and habitat research progress updates, and new opportunities related to oyster restoration. The Fisheries GIT is a group of federal [...]
The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) is administered by the CRC and funded through a cooperative agreement with the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Partnership – currently spanning the period 2016-2022. The CRC has had a long-standing role of administering all activities of STAC, an active committee with 38 members from academic and [...]
In July, CRC welcomed a new STAC Staff member, Meg Cole. Meg joined the Chesapeake Research Consortium as STAC Staff in July of 2019 after graduating from Towson University with a M.S. in Environmental Science. Meg is excited to be working within the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership and in support of evidence-based decision-making. When she is [...]
Climate change and the Spread of Diseases in the Bay Rita Colwell. Credit: University of Maryland College Park Scientists have long predicted that warmer temperatures caused by climate change will create optimal conditions for disease-causing bacteria to spread, even in the Chesapeake Bay. Long-time University of Maryland researcher and Johns Hopkins lecturer Rita [...]
Rachel on a boat. Credit: Rachel Dixon Rachel Dixon, long-time coordinator for the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) recently left CRC to pursue a PhD at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). "My time at CRC and STAC encouraged me to remain within the region in some capacity, so thankfully I can keep [...]
ODU's Science Pubs Bring Research to the Masses What better way to make science accessible than by talking about it over a beer? Researchers from Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk have been giving informal talks at breweries across the region for 4 years now, covering everything from climate change to mental health. "A curious [...]
