CRC QuarterlyNCBO Summer Interns

NCBO Summer Interns

In addition to supporting four of our eleven 2019 C-StREAM fellows, the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office also works with the CRC every year to hire two to four other more senior-level interns (post baccalaureate or graduate students) to help NCBO scientists with summer projects. This year, our interns have been involved in some pretty interesting projects. The internships combine field-based...

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Summer C-StREAM Update

New and Continuing C-StREAM Fellows   This summer, the CRC welcomed one continuing  C-StREAM Felllow (Nick Coleman) and ten new interns, all of whom were introduced in in our May Newsletter. They have all been having a productive summer,  spending time on boats, in the field, at computers, and in labs at locations around the watershed.  All will have finished their summer programs by the...

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Openings in EMCDP

Through the Environmental Management Career Development Program, CRC works in partnership with the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership to provide three-year, entry-level positions for individuals looking to begin their careers in environmental science, policy and management. The Chesapeake Bay Program hosts CRC Environmental Management Staffers at its partnership office in Annapolis, Maryland....

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Director’s Corner May 2019

Dear Colleagues, Ever since I first began work with the CRC in 2004 (as a research PI from a member institution and alternate Board Representative), I have gained increasing appreciation of the CRC’s importance to the CBP partnership. This importance derives not only from the science coordination, advisement, and career development work that it does through cooperative agreements with the EPA...

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Summer 2019 NOAA Interns

In partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Chesapeake Bay Office, CRC offers paid, twelve-week summer internships in a range of fields including fisheries management, habitat assessment, ecology, scientific field support, data analysis and modeling, and environmental policy development. The internships combine field-based experiences with administrative and...

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Uncertainties in Bay Models

How can managers and scientists use models to answer questions if they don’t understand the uncertainties of the models? Researchers at Virginia Tech and the Chesapeake Bay Program recently published a paper in Environmental Modeling and Software using a new technique to analyze the uncertainties of three models of the Susquehanna River Watershed. Their results suggest that the models preformed...

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