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 [...]
Four C-StREAM Program Students Have Productive Summer Internships This past summer, CRC and the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership funded four internships for undergraduate students to conduct Chesapeake Bay-related research and management activities. From left to right: Ashley Duncan, Mackenzie Bodman, and Ben Anderson. Not pictured: Nicholas Coleman Nicholas Coleman studies at Coastal Carolina University and [...]
Former CRC Director, Joseph ("Joe") Anthony Mihursky, passed away on August 24th at his Maryland home, overlooking the Chesapeake Bay. He oversaw CRC from 1989 through 1995. Joe started working at Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) in 1962. He soon became Scientist-in-Charge of the Hallowing Point Field Station, a unit of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, and in this [...]
Dear colleagues, This is our ninth CRC Quarterly Newsletter and the last for 2018. It’s incredible to me how days can sometimes feel long but quarters always feel short. And though I’m still eating Chesapeake steamed crabs (biggest and fattest this time of year!) and will still be sailing for another month, I sorely miss those [...]
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) are programs that are designed to help students conduct meaningful research and learn how to be successful graduate students. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), REUs are an opportunity to pursue independent research projects at an outside university. Students work closely with a mentor at their host institution and often [...]
Patrick Hatcher Two scientists at Old Dominion University (ODU) are conducting cutting-edge research on producing a biofuel from algae and creating a scale-able process for industry. Patrick Hatcher, Batten Endowed chair of Physical Science Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Sandeep Kumar, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director [...]
Animals and plants can use the pigment melanin to gain heat from their environment, maintaining comfortable body temperatures. This is known as thermal melanism. But melanin also serves other functions in biology. In humans, for example, melanin helps prevent exposure to ultraviolet radiation, so humans who live closer to the equator often have higher levels of [...]
Virginia Sea Grant offers research and post-graduate fellowships every year. These opportunities help students achieve their goals and develop professional skills. Research Fellowships Virginia Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellowships: The Virginia Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellowship is open to full-time graduate students at any Virginia academic institution who are engaged in coastal and marine research relevant [...]
STAC was excited to welcome 3 new at-large members in September. Lee Blaney is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and has research interests in fate and transport of emerging contaminants in natural and engineered systems. Much of his current research deals with the detection and removal of pharmaceuticals from drinking water, [...]
Despite having been banned for for decades, many toxic chemicals still show up in the Back River in Baltimore County. That is why the county and the U.S. Department of the Interior recently funded a team from University of Maryland Baltimore County and USGS to determine where the pollutants are coming from. The team at UMBC tackling this challenge [...]
