Chesapeake Bay Program Winter 2020 Update Relocation of the Chesapeake Bay Program The Chesapeake Bay Program, consisting of the National Park Service Chesapeake Bay Office, Environmental Protection Agency Chesapeake Bay Program Office, federal employees from the U.S. Forest Service and supporting grantees and contractors, will move to 1750 Forest Drive, Annapolis, Maryland later on this [...]
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office Winter 2020 Update Chesapeake Bay Environmental Literacy Forum Highlights MWEEs The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Environmental Literacy Forum brought together roughly 200 educators and state education officials to focus on implementing Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs) at the Environmental Literacy Forum, January 22-23, at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, WV. [...]
Virginia Tech to Receive Impact Innovations Award from Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society In late January, the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts (CENI), housed within Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, was selected to receive the inaugural Impact Innovations Award from the Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS). The award [...]
Virginia Tech Researcher Looks at Human Impacts of Coastal Flooding Over half of Virginia’s population lives along the coast and face increasing threats from extreme weather events and sea level rise. There is a need to better understand the impacts coastal flooding and hazards pose for these coastal communities and how to develop resilience strategies [...]
UMCES Scientists Find the Bay is More Resilient Than Expected (Credit: USGS) Sitting on the lower Susquehanna River, the Conowingo Dam has trapped most of the sediment and nutrients, like nitrogen and phosphorus, in its upstream reservoir, keeping them from flowing into the Chesapeake Bay. Recent concerns about the storage capacity of the [...]
Warming Temperatures May Be Better for Wetlands The Global Change Research Wetland (GCREW), located at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), is home to several long-term experiments designed to predict the effects of sea-level rise and climate change on coastal wetland ecosystems. Genevieve Noyce, a coastal wetland biogeochemist and research scientist at SERC, works on [...]
Using Watershed Data to Determine Cost-Effective BMPs A study from researchers at Penn State and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides a case study that using site-specific watershed data to determine the most cost-effective agricultural best management practices (BMPs) is not only less expensive, but equally effective. Researchers used the Spring Creek watershed — which drains an [...]
ODU Researchers Engage Community About Flood Adaptation Flooding and sea level rise (SLR) pose a problem to nearly every part of the Hampton Roads area. A research team from Old Dominion University (ODU) Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience designed the Action-Oriented Stakeholder Engagement for a Resilient Tomorrow (ASERT) framework to engage stakeholders in adaptation [...]
How Oysters are Shipped Makes All the Difference in Seafood Safety Have you ever thought about how an oyster gets to your plate? Consumers often only see the name of the farm and the restaurant where they are eating, but not all the steps in between. (Credit: Bobbi Hudson, PSI) Researchers at the [...]
VIMS Researchers find that Invasive Blue Catfish are Poised to Expand in the Bay A recent study from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) found that blue catfish can tolerate higher salinities than previously thought, meaning this invasive species has the potential to expand into mainstem Chesapeake waters, surrounding tributaries, and even the Delaware [...]
