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Director’s Corner
Dear Colleagues, Let me begin this quarter’s Director’s Corner with a mutually beneficial and brief request: Please help CRC to grow the value and influence of our consortium, and your work, by taking the following actions and encouraging other Bay-minded colleagues to do the same. Register in the Chesapeake Bay Expertise Database (CBED) Subscribe to our CRC Quarterly newsletter...
Read MoreJHU Alum Wins Award
Kacey Wetzel is the Director of Outreach and Education for The Chesapeake Bay Trust, and was recently named one of 100 Leading Women by The Daily Record, an award that highlights successful women under 40 in Maryland “judged on professional experience, community involvement and their commitment to inspiring change.” Business and legal professionals at The Daily Record pick the...
Read MoreODU & Sea Level Rise
Like most people in Hampton Roads, Old Dominion University (ODU) President John R. Broderick is directly impacted by sea level rise. Dr. Broderick sees how rising waters, from a high tide or storm event, regularly flood the ODU campus in Norfolk, Virginia. Much of coastal Virginia struggles with understanding the underlying issues, formulating effective responses and ensuring everyone has...
Read MoreWelcome to CRC, Cuiyin!
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. In November, CRC welcomed Mrs....
Read MoreSERC 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...
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