Call for C-StREAM Partners
The Future of C-StREAM: Seeking Additional Funders and Mentors for 2020 As the CRC and our partners wind up our 2019 summer internship programs, we have already begun thinking about 2020. Toward that end, I encourage ALL newsletter readers to please think about how they might assist with this this important program. Possible means include: If you work for a government agency or NGO,...
Read MoreSummer 2019 Director’s Corner
August 11, 2019 Dear Colleagues, TRANSITION is a very definite theme this year here for both the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership and the CRC. Within the CRC and its cooperative programs with EPA and NOAA, 2019 has or will bring: A new CRC Director before the end of the year as yours truly steps down to make room for new blood and participate in other ways. (In that regard, our Board is...
Read MoreThe Odum Legacy
How One Family Shaped Bay Research: Tracking the Odum Lineage The Odum name has been largely synonymous with ecology for decades. Despite that, many younger scientists may not be fully aware of the Odum family’s tremendous contributions to the field of ecology and specifically, the implications of their research on how the Chesapeake Bay is managed. Brothers, Howard “H.T.” and Eugene...
Read MoreWelcome New Staffers!
If you have to assign a theme to 2019 in the Environmental Management Career Development Program it would be TRANSITION! By the end of the year, almost half of our Staffer family will have moved on to new career adventures in exciting positions or to continue building their educational foundations in graduate school. While we will miss them terribly, we are thrilled to watch them take these next...
Read MoreSummer NCBO Update
In June, the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team (“Fisheries GIT”) held their biannual meeting at UMCES’ Horn Point Lab in Cambridge, Maryland. The meeting focused on the outlook for blue crabs this season, fish and habitat research progress updates, and new opportunities related to oyster restoration. The Fisheries GIT is a group of federal (NOAA...
Read MoreSTAC Summer 2019 Update
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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