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10-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 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...
Read MoreSalmon Aquaculture
A Johns Hopkins professor is determined to make sure the same pitfalls of agriculture aren’t repeated in aquaculture. Jillian Fry, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Livable Future‘s Seafood, Public Health, and Food Systems Project, is an expert in all things aquaculture. This year, the world’s first deep-sea aquaculture project will harvest their first generation of...
Read MorePigments and Microbes
Animals and plants can use the pigment melanin to gain heat from their environment, maintaining comfortable body temperatures. This is known as thermal melanism. But melanin also serves other functions in biology. In humans, for example, melanin helps prevent exposure to ultraviolet radiation, so humans who live closer to the equator often have higher levels of melanin in their skin. When...
Read MoreWater Treatment
During the water treatment process, toxic compounds are often oxidized into what scientists presumed were less harmful chemicals called “transformation products.” But less is known about these transformation products than scientists thought. “Once the chemical is gone, the job – it would seem – is done, but in fact we don’t always know what removal of the...
Read MoreNew Professor at JHU
Harihar Rajaram will join the Dept. of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) as a Professor in September 2018. Rajaram was previously Professor, President’s Teaching Scholar and Clark Faculty Fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Rajaram’s research focuses on mathematical modeling of environmental and earth systems, including computational, analytical...
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