A team at Johns Hopkins University led by Principle Investigator Frank Curriero investigates a bacteria that could be affecting seafood in the Chesapeake Bay. The project, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, wants to understand the underlying cause of seafood-associated illnesses leading to an estimated 80,000 illnesses in the US every year. [...]
Sunrise over Kirkpatrick Marsh Researchers at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), the University of Delaware, and Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) are investigating how ocean acidification could potentially compound existing problems in the Bay. A major problem already plaguing the Bay is caused by nutrient pollution. When fertilizer run off enters [...]
This year, we launched the Chesapeake Bay Expertise Database. This is a database built into our website with hundreds of scientists and managers who focus their work on the Chesapeake Bay. We currently have 244 participants, and we hope to reach 300 by the end of the year. Any one can search the database by name, [...]
From November 5th to November 9th, scientists, managers, students, and professionals from across disciplines will come together in Providence, RI to discuss marine and coastal issues. The biennial conference hosted by the Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) is called "Coastal Science at the Inflection Point: Celebrating Successes & Learning from Challenges." This year marks the [...]
Dear Colleagues, For those of us in academia, this is a busy time of year, in the midst of fall semester or quarter, and often with mid-term exams planned or underway. In addition, as this newsletter goes out, many of us are at the Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation's (CERF) 24th Biennial Conference (5 -9 November [...]
UMCES’ Eric Schott, right, and his graduate student, Matt Spitznagel, take a blood sample from a crab at Phillips Wharf Environmental Center. Eric Schott, a molecular biologist with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) is investigating a virus that is plaguing blue crab shedding operations around the Bay. Schott first discovered [...]
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 [...]
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. While the CRC Staffers provide critical support to the Chesapeake Bay Program, their time is also spent exploring their own professional [...]
The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) has released its annual update on research under way as part of its Oyster Reef Ecosystem Services (ORES) project. ORES includes NCBO field work on fish utilization of restored reefs, NCBO-funded research by partner institutions on Bay species’ use of restored reef areas as well as denitrification carried out by [...]
The Severn River Association has started a volunteer group called the Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Navy to help assist an aerial monitoring program at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. So far, 25 volunteers have signed up to hunt down underwater grass and mark its location using GPS through August. This image was taken through one [...]
