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STAC 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...
Read MoreBehind the Scenes: Professional Development
We are often asked what sets apart CRC’s Environmental Management Career Development Program from other entry-level positions. The answer is simple – professional development! While many positions have a commitment to professional growth and training for employees, our Staffers benefit from focused attention and support (both financial and mentoring) as they identify and pursue...
Read MoreGrasses Continue Record Growth
April brought its traditional showers and some very good news for the Chesapeake Bay region. For the first time since the decades-old underwater grass monitoring program began, underwater grass acreage exceeded 100,000 acres. In 2017, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science mapped an estimated 104,843 acres of underwater grass throughout the Chesapeake Bay. This marks the third consecutive year...
Read MorePSU Alum Making Impact
Sarah Xenophon is a watershed technician in the Agriculture and Environment Center in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State. She creates large-scale watershed assessments and meets with farmers, land owners, municipalities and others to restore polluted or otherwise “sick” bodies of water in Pennsylvania. The center works with key stakeholders to proactively build partnerships to...
Read MoreCRC Director on Conowingo Dam
CRC Director Bill Ball was recently quoted in a Johns Hopkins Magazine article about the need for increased upstream agricultural BMPs to alleviate the sediment build-up behind Conowingo Dam. The dam has been in place, collecting sediment, for almost a century. The dam was completed in 1928 as a hydroelectric and flood control project in the Susquehanna River. For much of its life, however, the...
Read MoreDRBC Interns
The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), a federal-interstate water resource management agency, currently has two internship opportunities: Environmental Paralegal – Directorate Branch Data Analysis – Water Resource Management Branch Environmental Paralegal – Directorate Branch The Environmental Paralegal Intern will support DRBC’s in-house counsel and coordinate closely...
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