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Pollutants in Flood Waters
ODU Researchers Study Nutrient Pollution During King Tide The incidence of coastal flooding has increased as a result of sea level rise. Last October, researchers from the Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department at Old Dominion University led about 70 volunteers out to the Lafayette River to measure the water levels and take water quality samples during the King Tide flooding event....
Read MoreUnderwater Vehicles
New Developments in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Written by Paul Stankiewicz & Marin Kobilarov, Johns Hopkins University This past year saw significant progress on developing autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology for use in Chesapeake Bay environmental sampling. AUVs have the capability to adapt their trajectories based on in-situ data to focus sampling efforts on higher-level...
Read MoreNew STAC Appointees
STAC was excited to welcome 3 new Federal members in December 2018: Anthony Buda is a Research Hydrologist for the Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit for the USDA. He focuses on hydrological and water quality studies to determine the effects of agricultural management, landscape factors and soil characteristics on fate and transport of nutrients, sediments and emerging...
Read MoreSTAC News
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...
Read MoreCRC Staffers Tour HPL
Career Development News: CRC is now accepting applications for our 2019 summer Chesapeake Student Recruitment Early Advisement and Mentoring (C-StREAM) internship program. To learn more about the program and how to apply, click here! Staffers Visit UMCES’s Horn Point Laboratory Over the course of a CRC Staffer’s three-year term in the Environmental Management Career Development Program, Staffers...
Read MoreMAPAIS Small Grants
The Mid-Atlantic Panel on Aquatic Invasive Species (MAPAIS) is offering a small grants competition to encourage interested groups and individuals to submit proposals for possible funding. View the full solicitation here: http://www.midatlanticpanel.org/grant-and-funding-sources/ Important Due Dates Proposal must be submitted as one PDF file to MAP-Proposals@mdsg.umd.edu by March 11, 2019 at 5:00...
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