After writing a globally-recognized sea grass study in 2018, Jonathan Lefcheck has joined the team at the Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO), directed by Smithsonian's Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network (TMON). MarineGEO is an international and pan-institutional network, directed by the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is both a foundational member of the network (along [...]
Penn State's Ray Najjar Penn State Contributes to North American Carbon Report Multiple Pennsylvania State University (PSU) scientists contributed to the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2), a massive collection of research on a carbon budget for North America. The first SOCCR report came out in 2007, so the recent report summarizes [...]
A team at Penn State University (PSU) is helping farmers understand how stream buffers planted with perennial grasses could be a way to make money. For example, switchgrass can be sold for a number of industrial purposes, and may even be as profitable as planting corn. But, oftentimes farmers have to see it to believe it. [...]
ODU Researchers Study Nutrient Pollution During King Tide Flooding in Larchmont, Norfolk, VA. The incidence of coastal flooding has increased as a result of sea level rise. Last October, researchers from the Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department at Old Dominion University led about 70 volunteers out to the Lafayette River to measure the [...]
New Developments in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Written by Paul Stankiewicz & Marin Kobilarov, Johns Hopkins University Figure 1: Map of the test areas used for adaptive sampling. All deployments were conducted with an Iver3 AUV pictured in the bottom left. This past year saw significant progress on developing autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology for [...]
STAC was excited to welcome 3 new Federal members in December 2018: Anthony Buda is a Research Hydrologist for the Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit for the USDA. He focuses on hydrological and water quality studies to determine the effects of agricultural management, landscape factors and soil characteristics on fate and transport of nutrients, [...]
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 [...]
Career Development News: CRC is now accepting applications for our 2019 summer Chesapeake Student Recruitment Early Advisement and Mentoring (C-StREAM) internship program. To learn more about the program and how to apply, click here! Staffers Visit UMCES’s Horn Point Laboratory CRC Staff had the opportunity to meet Horn Point Lab’s Dr. James Pierson and hear [...]
The Mid-Atlantic Panel on Aquatic Invasive Species (MAPAIS) is offering a small grants competition to encourage interested groups and individuals to submit proposals for possible funding. View the full solicitation here: http://www.midatlanticpanel.org/grant-and-funding-sources/ Important Due Dates Proposal must be submitted as one PDF file to MAP-Proposals@mdsg.umd.edu by March 11, 2019 at 5:00 pm. Proposals not adhering to [...]
As those involved with the Consortium are well aware, nutrient pollution is one of the ‘grand challenges’ of our time. It is a particularly vexing problem given the complex web of ecological, social and economic factors involved. Despite significant attention being paid to addressing nutrient pollution by governments agencies, industry, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders, important [...]
