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CRC Staffers Tour HPL
Career Development News: CRC is now accepting applications for our 2019 summer Chesapeake Student Recruitment Early Advisement and Mentoring (C-StREAM) internship program. To learn more about the program and how to apply, click here! Staffers Visit UMCES’s Horn Point Laboratory Over the course of a CRC Staffer’s three-year term in the Environmental Management Career Development Program, Staffers...
Read MoreMAPAIS Small Grants
The Mid-Atlantic Panel on Aquatic Invasive Species (MAPAIS) is offering a small grants competition to encourage interested groups and individuals to submit proposals for possible funding. View the full solicitation here: http://www.midatlanticpanel.org/grant-and-funding-sources/ Important Due Dates Proposal must be submitted as one PDF file to MAP-Proposals@mdsg.umd.edu by March 11, 2019 at 5:00...
Read More10-Year Nutrient Pollution Proposal
As those involved with the Consortium are well aware, nutrient pollution is one of the ‘grand challenges’ of our time. It is a particularly vexing problem given the complex web of ecological, social and economic factors involved. Despite significant attention being paid to addressing nutrient pollution by governments agencies, industry, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders,...
Read MoreNew Professor at VT
New Professor at Virginia Tech Virginia Tech recently hired a new co-director for their Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Lab in northern Virginia. Stanley Grant came to VT from University of California Irvine, and he will also serve as a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department. Grant has always been interested in nutrient pollution and transport, spending the last several...
Read MoreOyster Aquaculture and Disease
Scientists and managers have long thought that disease spreads from oyster aquaculture to wild populations. New research, however, has shown that aquaculture operations can actually limit the spread of diseases like dermo. The team, including Tal Ben-Horin of the University of Rhode Island (URI), Colleen Burge of University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Ryan Carnegie of the Virginia...
Read MoreUpdate on MARISA
NOAA Research Consortium Delivers New Reports The Mid-Atlantic Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (MARISA) recently published a summary of Chesapeake Bay Climate Impacts for the fall season of 2018. MARISA is a consortium of research organizations, led by the nonprofit RAND Corporation and funded by a 5-year grant from NOAA. As stated on its website, its mission is to “help...
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