Scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) are stumped by missing crabs. Back in 2006, a crabber caught a Chinese mitten crab, and shortly after scientist confirmed its identity, reports from all over, including as far north as the Hudson River, found hundreds of the crabs. SERC even set up a hotline to report the sightings as [...]
Photo: Kristen Minogue/SERC Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is hosting a free open-house for families on Saturday, May 19th. The event will focus on Chesapeake Bay stewardship, and hands-on activities in the water and on land. Some of the activities include a boat cruise, hay ride, archaeological dig, visits from animals like goats and birds [...]
The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) hosts monthly lectures on Bay Optimism on the third Tuesday of every month, March through October. This month's lecture features Amy Jacobs from The Nature Conservancy (TNC). On May 15th, Jacobs will give the lecture, "Clean Water, Healthy Habitats: Accelerating Wetland Restoration in the Bay," and will be discussing how [...]
Underwater grasses photographed by Lefcheck A landmark paper authored by a power-house of Bay scientists has rocked the Chesapeake Bay for the past two months. The paper looks at the long-term effects of nutrient reductions in the Chesapeake Bay watershed on underwater grasses, or submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV). It was published in the prestigious [...]
On March 5th, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam served as a panelist at the Blue Planet Forum at Old Dominion University (ODU). The forum is an annual event by ODU and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation that seeks to educate and engage the public on environmental issues. Gov. Northam and City Council member Andria McClellan on the [...]
Old Dominion University (ODU) scientist Richard Zimmerman published an op-ed in The Virginia-Pilot in March on how federal budget cuts could harm the Chesapeake Bay and the ocean at large. He discusses the proposed federal budget that cuts funding to NOAA by $1 billion, which could have huge effects in Hampton Roads. Richard Zimmerman, Old [...]
Carsten Prasse joined the Dept. of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor in February. Prasse’s research focuses on the fate of organic chemicals in the urban water cycle and the assessment of their impacts on environmental and human health. His research group applies high-resolution mass spectrometry for the identification of the [...]
As reported in the first issue of this CRC Quarterly Newsletter , Virginia Tech (also known as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) is the newest member of the Chesapeake Research Consortium. Virginia Tech (VT) has a long-standing association with the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Partnership that goes back to the CBP's beginnings, when Dr. Clifford [...]
The Chesapeake Community Modeling Program (CCMP) is accepting presentation abstracts for the 2018 Chesapeake Community Research & Modeling Symposium (ChesRMS '18) through March 1, 2018. Advancing observational and modeling research to support Chesapeake Bay management and restoration is the theme for this year's symposium which will be held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Annapolis, MD on June [...]
The Chesapeake Community Modeling Program (CCMP), Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC), Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System/Chesapeake Focus Research Group (CSDMS/CFRG) and the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) convened a three-day STAC workshop to undertake a comprehensive review of the status of the current CBP management modeling system and discuss future directions for management modeling in the CBP with [...]
