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Carbon Report
Penn State Contributes to North American Carbon Report Multiple Pennsylvania State University (PSU) scientists contributed to the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2), a massive collection of research on a carbon budget for North America. The first SOCCR report came out in 2007, so the recent report summarizes a decade of research developments. Ray Najjar, professor of oceanography...
Read MoreProfitable Stream Buffers
A team at Penn State University (PSU) is helping farmers understand how stream buffers planted with perennial grasses could be a way to make money. For example, switchgrass can be sold for a number of industrial purposes, and may even be as profitable as planting corn. But, oftentimes farmers have to see it to believe it. “We really need to demonstrate the successful options to...
Read MorePollutants in Flood Waters
ODU Researchers Study Nutrient Pollution During King Tide The incidence of coastal flooding has increased as a result of sea level rise. Last October, researchers from the Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department at Old Dominion University led about 70 volunteers out to the Lafayette River to measure the water levels and take water quality samples during the King Tide flooding event....
Read MoreUnderwater Vehicles
New Developments in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Written by Paul Stankiewicz & Marin Kobilarov, Johns Hopkins University This past year saw significant progress on developing autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology for use in Chesapeake Bay environmental sampling. AUVs have the capability to adapt their trajectories based on in-situ data to focus sampling efforts on higher-level...
Read MoreNew STAC Appointees
STAC was excited to welcome 3 new Federal members in December 2018: Anthony Buda is a Research Hydrologist for the Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit for the USDA. He focuses on hydrological and water quality studies to determine the effects of agricultural management, landscape factors and soil characteristics on fate and transport of nutrients, sediments and emerging...
Read MoreSTAC News
The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) is administered by the CRC and funded through a cooperative agreement with the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Partnership – currently spanning the period 2016-2022. The CRC has had a long-standing role of administering all activities of STAC, an active committee with 38 members from academic and scientific...
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