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CRC Welcomes New STAC Staff
In June, CRC welcomed a new STAC Staff member, Annabelle Harvey. Annabelle recently graduated from Salisbury University in May 2017 with degrees in Biology and Environmental Studies and enjoys spending time outdoors on the water and on the trails. Having grown up in Southern Maryland surrounded by the Bay and its tributaries, Annabelle is excited to be involved with an organization that uses...
Read MoreShark Tagging
Sharks. They’re everyone’s favorite underwater enemy. Between nerve-wracking dramas like Jaws to stories about prehistoric mega-sharks, we have all but made the shark species a completely fictionalized being. But scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) are hoping to change that. Charles “Chuck” Bangley, a marine ecologist at SERC, travels up and down the East Coast...
Read MoreBlue Carbon in Wetlands
It’s a true story of “grassroots science.” A team of over two dozen researchers set out to estimate how much carbon tidal wetlands across the U.S. can store. But the official datasets didn’t give them much info to work with. So they pooled their resources, creating a new dataset of nearly 2,000 wetland soil cores. Their final estimate: Nearly 800 million tons of carbon may lie buried in the...
Read MoreClimate Change and Corn
A researcher at Penn State University (PSU) is investigating temperature changes in the Northeast and how these changes will impact corn growth and development. Heather Karsten, associate professor of crop production ecology in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, used climate data and models from Syracuse, New York, State College, Pennsylvania, and Landisville, Pennsylvania to...
Read MoreNew Professor at ODU
In 2017, Rip Hale joined the staff at Old Dominion University (ODU) as an assistant professor in the Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences department. His research looks at sediment transport and deposition across a variety of spatial and temporal scales using acoustic and optical sensors to measure the movement of water and sediment in coastal environments. These observations are then compared...
Read MoreWater Treatment
During the water treatment process, toxic compounds are often oxidized into what scientists presumed were less harmful chemicals called “transformation products.” But less is known about these transformation products than scientists thought. “Once the chemical is gone, the job – it would seem – is done, but in fact we don’t always know what removal of the...
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