Animals and plants can use the pigment melanin to gain heat from their environment, maintaining comfortable body temperatures. This is known as thermal melanism. But melanin also serves other functions in biology. In humans, for example, melanin helps prevent exposure to ultraviolet radiation, so humans who live closer to the equator often have higher levels of [...]
Virginia Sea Grant offers research and post-graduate fellowships every year. These opportunities help students achieve their goals and develop professional skills. Research Fellowships Virginia Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellowships: The Virginia Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellowship is open to full-time graduate students at any Virginia academic institution who are engaged in coastal and marine research relevant [...]
STAC was excited to welcome 3 new at-large members in September. Lee Blaney is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and has research interests in fate and transport of emerging contaminants in natural and engineered systems. Much of his current research deals with the detection and removal of pharmaceuticals from drinking water, [...]
Despite having been banned for for decades, many toxic chemicals still show up in the Back River in Baltimore County. That is why the county and the U.S. Department of the Interior recently funded a team from University of Maryland Baltimore County and USGS to determine where the pollutants are coming from. The team at UMBC tackling this challenge [...]
This October, the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) signed a new two-year cooperative agreement with CRC. The agreement funds a few activities that are mutually beneficial to both organizations. "We are thrilled to continue our relationship with the Chesapeake Research Consortium through this new cooperative agreement. It allows us to expand internship opportunities for college students, fund workshops [...]
CRC’s Environmental Management Career Development Program works with the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership to offer three-year staff opportunities for science, management, and policy graduates as the partnership works to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay. As part of their time in the program, CRC Staffers are encouraged to explore their career interests and take on projects [...]
Then-doctoral student Josh Stone tests the buoyancy of a bay nettle in the Zooplankton Ecology laboratory at VIMS. (Photo by D. Malmquist/VIMS) Scientist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) have been investigating a Bay-wide scarcity of nettles (aka: jellyfish). The research, published in September in Estuaries and Coasts, serves as the most [...]
While a warming climate in recent decades may be a factor in the waning of some local populations of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, it cannot explain the overall steep decline of amphibians, according to researchers. The spotted salamander or yellow spotted salamander is one of the species of amphibians that is way less common [...]
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) [...]
In June, CRC welcomed a new STAC Staff member, Annabelle Harvey. Annabelle recently graduated from Salisbury University in May 2017 with degrees in Biology and Environmental Studies and enjoys spending time outdoors on the water and on the trails. Having grown up in Southern Maryland surrounded by the Bay and its tributaries, Annabelle is excited to [...]
