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In Memoriam: Ed Bouwer
CRC Mourns the Loss of Long-time CRC Friend, Ed Bouwer Dr. Edward “Ed” John. Bouwer, a longtime Johns Hopkins professor and CRC board member, passed away in October. He was 63. Bouwer, a nationally-recognized environmental engineer, had been at Johns Hopkins since 1985 and became the chair of that department in 2007. During that time, the program was recognized as one of the top 10 in the...
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Johns Hopkins PhD candidate creates resource list to help underrepresented minority and low-income students in STEM This past spring at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Lavontria Miché Aaron, a second-year PhD candidate studying Martian remote sensing and in-situ spectroscopy at Johns Hopkins University, tweeted that she had resources for underrepresented minority...
Read More2020 REU Programs
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are opportunities for students to spend a summer pursuing a research project at a hosting institution. These opportunities are funded by the National Science Foundation, and students spend usually 10 weeks working closely with an academic mentor, presenting their findings, and even going on field trips. All 7 of CRC’s member institutions offer...
Read MoreVibrio & Climate Change
Climate change and the Spread of Diseases in the Bay Scientists have long predicted that warmer temperatures caused by climate change will create optimal conditions for disease-causing bacteria to spread, even in the Chesapeake Bay. Long-time University of Maryland researcher and Johns Hopkins lecturer Rita Colwell has been studying Vibrio bacteria since the 60’s, and has found that...
Read MoreAnaerobic Microbial Communities
When modeling low-oxygen environments, researchers examine chemical signals of biogeochemical cycles, but rarely do they try to model the microbial community underlying those cycles. Sarah Preheim of Johns Hopkins University (JHU) used a lake ecosystem to model how the microbial community responded to anoxic conditions. She hopes to one day apply techniques learned from the lake study to the...
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...
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