CRC QuarterlyODU Hosts Forum

ODU Hosts Forum

On March 5th, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam served as a panelist at the Blue Planet Forum at Old Dominion University (ODU). The forum is an annual event by ODU and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation that seeks to educate and engage the public on environmental issues. Northam spoke on his opposition to offshore drilling, citing sustainable energy concerns and pointing to potential harm to military...

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ODU Scientist Writes Op-Ed

Old Dominion University (ODU) scientist Richard Zimmerman published an op-ed in The Virginia-Pilot in March on how federal budget cuts could harm the Chesapeake Bay and the ocean at large. He discusses the proposed federal budget that cuts funding to NOAA by $1 billion, which could have huge effects in Hampton Roads. Zimmerman warns that cutting funding to programs designed to help the area cope...

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New Faculty Member

Carsten Prasse joined the Dept. of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor in February. Prasse’s research focuses on the fate of organic chemicals in the urban water cycle and the assessment of their impacts on environmental and human health. His research group applies high-resolution mass spectrometry for the identification of the chemical structures of...

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VT Contributes to CBP

As reported in the first issue of this CRC Quarterly Newsletter , Virginia Tech (also known as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) is the newest member of the Chesapeake Research Consortium.  Virginia Tech (VT) has a long-standing association with the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Partnership that goes back to the CBP’s beginnings, when Dr. Clifford Randall, a wastewater...

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ChesRMS June 12-14, 2018 : Abstracts Due March 1

The Chesapeake Community Modeling Program (CCMP) is accepting presentation abstracts for the 2018 Chesapeake Community Research & Modeling Symposium (ChesRMS ’18)  through March 1, 2018. Advancing observational and modeling research to support Chesapeake Bay management and restoration is the theme for this year’s symposium which will be held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Annapolis,...

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Visioning Workshop

The Chesapeake Community Modeling Program (CCMP), Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC), Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System/Chesapeake Focus Research Group (CSDMS/CFRG) and the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) convened a three-day STAC workshop to undertake a comprehensive review of the status of the current CBP management modeling system and discuss future directions for management modeling...

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