Dear Colleagues, Ever since I first began work with the CRC in 2004 (as a research PI from a member institution and alternate Board Representative), I have gained increasing appreciation of the CRC’s importance to the CBP partnership. This importance derives not only from the science coordination, advisement, and career development work that it does through [...]
STAC Continues to Address Climate Resiliency Science Needs 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, [...]
We are excited to announce the Chesapeake Student Research, Early Advisement, and Mentoring (C-StREAM) program interns of summer 2019! C-StREAM is a program focused on recruiting, advising, and mentoring college students from typically under-represented groups to prepare them for careers in environmental protection and restoration. We will work with successful applicants to identify internships and mentors [...]
UPDATE 2/27/19: APPLICATIONS ARE NOW DUE MARCH 4TH AND LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION ARE DUE MARCH 11TH. As reported on our website and in our last newsletter, the CRC is now actively managing a Chesapeake Student Recruitment, Early Advisement, and Mentoring (C StREAM) program to promote the long-term mentorship for students from typically under-represented populations to find [...]
February 11, 2019 Dear Colleagues, Please note two upcoming deadlines that are of special importance to CRC: (1) The March 1, 2019 deadline for current students at undergraduate programs to apply to our C-StREAM Fellowship program, which will support seven or eight students from typically under-represented populations to participate in summer research and management internship programs [...]
This past December, Fred Dobbs of Old Dominion University was elected as the new Chair of CRC's Board of Trustees. Dobbs will replace John Wells of VIMS, who held the position for the past 9 years. Wells has served as VIMS representative since 2004, and will stay on in that role after Dobbs becomes Chair. Dobbs [...]
Former CRC Director, Joseph ("Joe") Anthony Mihursky, passed away on August 24th at his Maryland home, overlooking the Chesapeake Bay. He oversaw CRC from 1989 through 1995. Joe started working at Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) in 1962. He soon became Scientist-in-Charge of the Hallowing Point Field Station, a unit of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, and in this [...]
Dear colleagues, This is our ninth CRC Quarterly Newsletter and the last for 2018. It’s incredible to me how days can sometimes feel long but quarters always feel short. And though I’m still eating Chesapeake steamed crabs (biggest and fattest this time of year!) and will still be sailing for another month, I sorely miss those [...]
Although diversity has been a priority at Chesapeake Bay institutions for many years, the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) recently committed to a Diversity Directive to further promote increased diversity throughout the CBP community. In 2016, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay released the results of its first-ever diversity profile after surveying approximately 750 people who work with or for the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) [...]
The 2018 Chesapeake Community Research and Modeling Symposium (ChesRMS18) was convened June 12-14 at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Annapolis, MD. By all accounts the meeting was an overwhelming success with the number of participants more than doubled compared to the 2016 meeting. This increase was the result of the CCMP and CRC decision to expand [...]
