CRC NewsWinter 2020 Director’s Corner

Winter 2020 Director’s Corner

Dear Colleagues, Weaving has always fascinated me, both the process and its possible results. Teaching and research over the past ten years have given me the gift of significant time in the Peruvian Andes, where pieces woven by experienced hands tell beautiful and detailed stories of place and culture, but only if one learns how to read them. That’s how I view my first month at CRC, the start of...

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Bill Ball’s Lasting Impact

The Lasting Impact of Retiring Executive Director, Bill Ball    By Paula Jasinski and Gina Sawaya, Green Fin Studio   CRC has been beyond lucky to have had Bill Ball lead the way over the last five years. The impacts of his long professional career can be felt throughout the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed and much further afield. With Ball’s retirement as CRC’s Executive...

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Fall 2019 Director’s Corner

Dear Colleagues, This is my thirteenth and final “Director’s Corner” and one that I am delighted to share with my successor as Executive Director, Dr. Denice Wardrop; she has contributed a short postscript at the bottom. And speaking of Denice – I encourage you to get to know her (if you do not already) and engage in common work with her in the months and years ahead – I have had that privilege...

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ChesCRS20 Call for Special Sessions!

Special Session Proposals for the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium 2020 are due on November 29th   We are excited to announce a call for special session proposals for the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium 2020! It is our sincere hope that you will consider putting together a proposal for a session. Sessions on any topic relevant to better understanding and managing the...

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New Executive Director

Chesapeake Research Consortium Names Denice Wardrop as its New Executive Director Annapolis, Maryland – The Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC) has officially chosen its next Executive Director: Denice Wardrop of Pennsylvania State University. Wardrop will be taking over for William Ball, who has served as Executive Director since 2015 and will retire officially at the end of 2019. “Denice was...

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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,...

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