Danny Kaufman to Assist CBP with Optimization Tool Development The CRC is pleased to welcome Dr. Danny Kaufman to the CRC team. Danny, who started work on the first of December 2017, is working as a Research Scientist to assist the Modeling Team of the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) partnership on developing optimization tools for the Bay watershed model, called the Chesapeake Assessment [...]
Our database is growing! Last year, we launched the Chesapeake Bay Expertise Database, a tool to connect Bay scientists. Anyone can use CBED to find collaborators, speakers, and mentors, as it is searchable by name, institution, expertise, research interests, and Chesapeake Bay management areas. There are currently 252 scientists enrolled in CBED, ranging across dozens of [...]
As per our web page, the CRC’s mission is to “encourage and facilitate collaborative research and education initiatives throughout the region and, from these activities, to inform the management community and effectively foster improved science-based management of the Chesapeake Bay and its watersheds.” For the scientists at our member institutions and, indeed, for scientists at any of the [...]
Dear Colleagues, Let me begin this quarter's Director's Corner with a mutually beneficial and brief request: Please help CRC to grow the value and influence of our consortium, and your work, by taking the following actions and encouraging other Bay-minded colleagues to do the same. Register in the Chesapeake Bay Expertise Database (CBED) Subscribe to our CRC Quarterly [...]
Image from The Daily Record Kacey Wetzel is the Director of Outreach and Education for The Chesapeake Bay Trust, and was recently named one of 100 Leading Women by The Daily Record, an award that highlights successful women under 40 in Maryland "judged on professional experience, community involvement and their commitment to inspiring change." [...]
Photo from Tal Ezer (ODU) Like most people in Hampton Roads, Old Dominion University (ODU) President John R. Broderick is directly impacted by sea level rise. Dr. Broderick sees how rising waters, from a high tide or storm event, regularly flood the ODU campus in Norfolk, Virginia. Much of coastal Virginia struggles with understanding [...]
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. There are currently thirteen CRC Environmental Management Staffers supporting Chesapeake Bay Program. In November, CRC welcomed Mrs. Cuiyin Wu to the [...]
Researchers from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) were recently awarded a Research Coordination Network (RCN) grant from the National Science Foundation with the goal of accelerating the pace of discovery in coastal carbon science by serving a community of researchers and practitioners with data, tools, and synthesis. Tidal marshes, mangrove swamps, and seagrass meadows collectively form [...]
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Professor Emeritus Walter Boynton receiving the Carl S. Weber award at the Maryland Water Monitoring Council Annual Conference. Photo from Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Walter Boynton has spent decades investigating Chesapeake Bay working to understand more about the health of its ecosystem as a professor and researcher for the University of [...]
For nearly seven decades, wild oyster (Crassostrea virginica) populations in the Chesapeake Bay have languished at the mercy of two marine parasites. The rugged looking oyster proved to be not so hardy when infected by either Haplosporidium nelsoni, responsible for MSX, or Perkinsus marinus (aka Dermo for its original classification as Dermocystidium marinum). Both are single-celled parasites that infect oysters and when infection [...]
