Aug 2018Climate Change Modeling

Climate Change Modeling

A team of researchers from Virginia Tech (VT), University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), Penn State (PSU), and USDA published a new climate change study in Science of the Total Environment this past May. The goal of the study was to better understand nutrient exports from agricultural landscapes under the effects of climate change. The research team included VT researchers Moges Wagena (lead...

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News and Notes

Summer is here and for many of us, this means vacation time! Taking a moment from our daily routines to enjoy the people, places, and activities we love is always a rejuvenating experience. We often return to our routines with fresh perspectives and energy, ready to take our work up a notch. After my own vacation, one of the first tasks waiting for me at the office was an update of the...

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STAC Summary

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 scientific...

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Summer 2018 Director’s Corner

Dear colleagues, I hope you all are having a great summer. The patterns of daily weather change have certainly been unusual (at least to the best of my own rusty memory …), but I think we’ve all been well warned that variability and heat are on the long-term rise in our region.  Meanwhile, though, there have certainly been some beautiful days mixed in. Anyway… It is my pleasure...

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