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ODU Spring 2020 Updates
Old Dominion University Partners With Hampton Roads Community Foundation to Speed Severe Weather Recovery ODU researchers have received a five-year $500,000 grant from the Hampton Roads Community Foundation to help vulnerable communities quickly restore damaged homes following severe storms and flooding. The research team will begin by creating a Convergence, Inventory, Matching &...
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Tracking COVID-19 Johns Hopkins University has been a global leader throughout the duration of the COVID-19 crisis. Not only has their plan for continuing research in these unprecedented times become the industry standard, but they have also created the go-to COVID-19 Dashboard. Launched in the early days of the crisis, Johns Hopkins’ dashboard has become a useful tool for researchers,...
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A New Vocabulary for an Increasingly Polluted World SERC researcher, Linsey Haram, has spearheaded an effort to standardize the language used to discuss the increasingly widespread plastic pollution in our environment. The development of the use of plastics in our society has happened so rapidly that many related phenomena have managed to escape any agreed-upon terminology. The lack of a...
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Virginia Water Center Nationally Recognized for Water Issues The Virginia Water Resources Research Center, housed at Virginia Tech, was one of 12 institutes to be nationally recognized as “outstanding” by the U.S. Geological Survey. This designation was recently given after a panel of scientists reviewed the center’s progress between 2011 and 2015. In particular, the panel commended the...
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Chesapeake Bay Program Spring 2020 Update Chesapeake Bay Program releases 2018-19 Bay Barometer The 2018-19 Bay Barometer was released on March 25, with a decidedly different look and feel than in previous years. As only seven indicators had been updated in the past year (blue crab abundance, blue crab management, oysters, protected lands, public access, SAV and watershed...
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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 institutions...
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