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Changing Phytoplankton Communities
Sea ice in the Arctic is retreating earlier each year, leaving more open water and changing the community of phytoplankton living in the water. Phytoplankton sit at the base of the food chain and are an important component of all marine ecosystems. In order to understand the changing communities of phytoplankton in the Arctic, Aimee Neeley, a graduate student at University of Maryland Center for...
Read MoreMapping Bay Streams
How do you protect a stream if you do not even know it is there? Matthew Baker of University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) is creating more accurate maps of the Chesapeake Bay watershed with non-profit partner Chesapeake Conservancy. The team was recently awarded $1.2 million from the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) to implement new stream mapping techniques. Baker is a watershed scientist...
Read MoreConquering Climate Change
8 Ways Nature Can Help Us Conquer Climate Change Written by Kristen Minogue for the Shorelines Blog. Original article. The United States may be officially pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement but scientists are still brainstorming ways the country could meet its original goals. They believe that Mother Nature can lend a far more powerful hand than we thought, if given the chance. Led by...
Read MoreNew Hire at MarineGEO
After writing a globally-recognized sea grass study in 2018, Jonathan Lefcheck has joined the team at the Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO), directed by Smithsonian’s Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network (TMON). MarineGEO is an international and pan-institutional network, directed by the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is both a foundational...
Read MoreCarbon Report
Penn State Contributes to North American Carbon Report Multiple Pennsylvania State University (PSU) scientists contributed to the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2), a massive collection of research on a carbon budget for North America. The first SOCCR report came out in 2007, so the recent report summarizes a decade of research developments. Ray Najjar, professor of oceanography...
Read MoreProfitable Stream Buffers
A team at Penn State University (PSU) is helping farmers understand how stream buffers planted with perennial grasses could be a way to make money. For example, switchgrass can be sold for a number of industrial purposes, and may even be as profitable as planting corn. But, oftentimes farmers have to see it to believe it. “We really need to demonstrate the successful options to...
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