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 [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is providing an additional $150,000 to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) to continue support for managing and improving the computer technology used for Chesapeake Bay restoration. “Clean water is a top priority for EPA,” said EPA Regional Administrator Cosmo Servidio. “This continuing collaboration [...]
Lorie Staver scans the green and golden marsh on a small stretch of land in Chesapeake Bay called Poplar Island. It’s something she has done hundreds of times from her graduate student days to now, as an Assistant Research Scientist for the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Horn Point Laboratory. Staver at Poplar [...]
Opportunities for Future Collaboration NOAA BWET Grant The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office has announced the FY18 Chesapeake Bay-Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) program funding opportunity. A total of roughly $1,000,000, subject to appropriations, may be available to fund 8-10 new projects. Applications are due by March 9, 2018. Details are available through the full Federal Funding Opportunity, which [...]
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 [...]
CRAB: Collaborative Research around the Bay In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean without oxygen has increased more than fourfold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have increased more than 10-fold since 1950. Scientists expect oxygen to continue dropping even outside these zones as Earth warms. [...]
