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SERC and CCRCN
Researchers from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) were recently awarded a Research Coordination Network (RCN) grant from the National Science Foundation with the goal of accelerating the pace of discovery in coastal carbon science by serving a community of researchers and practitioners with data, tools, and synthesis. Tidal marshes, mangrove swamps, and seagrass meadows...
Read MoreWalter Boynton Wins Award
Walter Boynton has spent decades investigating Chesapeake Bay working to understand more about the health of its ecosystem as a professor and researcher for the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Working in parallel was Carl S. Weber, a man on a similar mission who dedicated his own life and work at University of Maryland-Baltimore County to increasing watershed awareness...
Read MoreOysters Show Resistance
For nearly seven decades, wild oyster (Crassostrea virginica) populations in the Chesapeake Bay have languished at the mercy of two marine parasites. The rugged looking oyster proved to be not so hardy when infected by either Haplosporidium nelsoni, responsible for MSX, or Perkinsus marinus (aka Dermo for its original classification as Dermocystidium marinum). Both are single-celled parasites...
Read MoreUMCES Receives EPA Funding
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is providing an additional $150,000 to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) to continue support for managing and improving the computer technology used for Chesapeake Bay restoration. “Clean water is a top priority for EPA,” said EPA Regional Administrator Cosmo Servidio. “This continuing...
Read MorePoplar Island Restoration
Lorie Staver scans the green and golden marsh on a small stretch of land in Chesapeake Bay called Poplar Island. It’s something she has done hundreds of times from her graduate student days to now, as an Assistant Research Scientist for the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Horn Point Laboratory. Staver is exhaustively monitoring the island, from the dirt below her feet...
Read MoreOpportunities for Collaboration
Opportunities for Future Collaboration NOAA BWET Grant The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office has announced the FY18 Chesapeake Bay-Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) program funding opportunity. A total of roughly $1,000,000, subject to appropriations, may be available to fund 8-10 new projects. Applications are due by March 9, 2018. Details are available through the full Federal Funding...
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