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Conquering Climate Change
8 Ways Nature Can Help Us Conquer Climate Change Written by Kristen Minogue for the Shorelines Blog. Original article. The United States may be officially pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement but scientists are still brainstorming ways the country could meet its original goals. They believe that Mother Nature can lend a far more powerful hand than we thought, if given the chance. Led by...
Read MoreNew Hire at MarineGEO
After writing a globally-recognized sea grass study in 2018, Jonathan Lefcheck has joined the team at the Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO), directed by Smithsonian’s Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network (TMON). MarineGEO is an international and pan-institutional network, directed by the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is both a foundational...
Read MoreCarbon 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...
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