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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...
Read MoreChesRMS 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,...
Read MoreVisioning 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...
Read MoreCBPO Director Retires
Nick DiPasquale led the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) for six and a half years, making him the second-longest serving director of the program. DiPasquale came on as Director in August 2011, and served in that role until this past December, when he retired. On why he was drawn to the position, he said, “it is a comprehensive, eco-system based program dealing with the totality of...
Read MoreNCBO Acting Director
The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office has an acting director while current director, Peyton Robertson, is on an extended detail serving as senior advisor to the National Marine Fisheries Service and the National Weather Service. In the meantime, Sean Corson has been serving in the role since June. Corson had served as Deputy Director since 2008, but he explained that his responsibilities have changed...
Read MoreNOAA Sonar Imaging
In Fall of 2017, a field team from the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) did some interesting work mapping critical habitat for endangered Atlantic sturgeon in Virginia. The team has captured side-scan sonar images of 13 sturgeon that were observed during a survey of a 5-km long section of the James River. During this exercise, the NOAA team observed several sturgeon breaches, in what they...
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