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New Professor at JHU
Harihar Rajaram will join the Dept. of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) as a Professor in September 2018. Rajaram was previously Professor, President’s Teaching Scholar and Clark Faculty Fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Rajaram’s research focuses on mathematical modeling of environmental and earth systems, including computational, analytical...
Read MoreOysterFutures
Environmentalists and watermen have come together to reach a broad set of recommendations for restoring oysters in the Choptank and Little Choptank rivers. OysterFutures, led by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and funded by National Science Foundation, is a research project aimed at achieving thriving oyster populations. Watermen and environmentalists have...
Read MoreBay Barcoding
A team led by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO), and including participants from Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), University of Maryland (UMD), Old Dominion University (ODU) George Mason University (GMU), and several other institutions conducted a large initiative to document the biodiversity of the Chesapeake Bay on...
Read More2018 Bay Report Card
Researchers from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) gave the Chesapeake Bay an overall grade of “C” in their annual report card. Although the “C” grade has remained constant since 2012, this is the first year that scientists have seen a statistically significant positive trend. Alexandra Fries, a senior science communicator at UMCES, told...
Read MoreTracking River Herring
Two types of river herring, alewife and blueback herring, used to be abundant in tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay . These days, however, herring are threatened by habitat loss, overfishing, and dams that block the route to their spawning locations. Teams from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the Horn Point Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental...
Read MoreVA Sea Grant Fellowships
Virginia Sea Grant has several new fellowship and professional development opportunities. The goal of these programs is to help develop professional skills and new leaders. Applications must be submitted through their web portal and will open in late August. To learn more about each opportunity, please visit the VASG fellowship page. Graduate Research Fellowships VASG Graduate Research...
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