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Spotlight on Staffers: Lindsey Gordon
CRC’s Environmental Management Career Development Program works with the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership to offer three-year staff opportunities for science, management, and policy graduates as the partnership works to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay. There are currently thirteen CRC Environmental Management Staffers supporting Chesapeake Bay Program initiatives for various lengths of...
Read MoreInvertebrate Research
Researchers at Virginia Tech are developing a computer model to track invertebrate behavior in mountain streams. Aquatic invertebrates like crayfish and mayflies are important because they are essential to food webs and are used as an indicator of freshwater health. Associate professor of biological sciences Bryan Brown hopes that the model will be used by land managers in a variety of...
Read MoreKirwan wins NSF CAREER Award
Dr. Matt Kirwan of VIMS has received the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) award. This award recognizes faculty who show potential as academic role models. Kirwan will receive $677,000 over five years to study how carbon sequestered in Chesapeake Bay marshes will respond to sea level rise. The study will combine field and laboratory work, computer...
Read MoreVIMS Algal Blooms
The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) recently received three awards totaling $2.5 million over three years to study harmful algal blooms, or HABs, positioning VIMS as a major player in quantifying the negative effects of HABs. VIMS received two grants through NOAA’s ECOHAB program that focuses on species related issues with algae. Dr. Kim Reece, and her team will use one of the...
Read MoreDetecting HABS With Drones
Dr. Donglai Gong, an assistant professor in physical oceanography at VIMS was practicing with his drone over the York River not long ago and noticed some strange streaking colorations in the water. He took pictures and shared them with colleagues at VIMS who quickly identified the colored patches as potential Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs). Thus began a collaborative effort between Gong and other...
Read MoreFighting Biofouling
Researchers at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Oyster Hatchery are studying ways to cultivate oysters as efficiently as possible. Small marine creatures like barnacles and bryozoans often settle on oyster cages and prevent a clean flow of water into the cages, causing sediments and algae to settle on the oysters. Otherwise known as biofouling, it can lead...
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