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10-Year Nutrient Pollution Proposal
As those involved with the Consortium are well aware, nutrient pollution is one of the ‘grand challenges’ of our time. It is a particularly vexing problem given the complex web of ecological, social and economic factors involved. Despite significant attention being paid to addressing nutrient pollution by governments agencies, industry, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders,...
Read MoreOyster Aquaculture and Disease
Scientists and managers have long thought that disease spreads from oyster aquaculture to wild populations. New research, however, has shown that aquaculture operations can actually limit the spread of diseases like dermo. The team, including Tal Ben-Horin of the University of Rhode Island (URI), Colleen Burge of University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Ryan Carnegie of the Virginia...
Read MoreUpdate on MARISA
NOAA Research Consortium Delivers New Reports The Mid-Atlantic Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (MARISA) recently published a summary of Chesapeake Bay Climate Impacts for the fall season of 2018. MARISA is a consortium of research organizations, led by the nonprofit RAND Corporation and funded by a 5-year grant from NOAA. As stated on its website, its mission is to “help...
Read MoreRecent Quarterly article on CBP Diversity Program
Although diversity has been a priority at Chesapeake Bay institutions for many years, the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) recently committed to a Diversity Directive to further promote increased diversity throughout the CBP community. In 2016, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay released the results of its first-ever diversity profile after surveying approximately 750 people who work with or for...
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...
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