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NCBO Cooperative Agreement
This October, the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) signed a new two-year cooperative agreement with CRC. The agreement funds a few activities that are mutually beneficial to both organizations. “We are thrilled to continue our relationship with the Chesapeake Research Consortium through this new cooperative agreement. It allows us to expand internship opportunities for college students,...
Read MoreScarcity of Bay Nettles
Scientist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) have been investigating a Bay-wide scarcity of nettles (aka: jellyfish). The research, published in September in Estuaries and Coasts, serves as the most comprehensive study of Bay jelly populations ever undertaken. Though they aren’t always well appreciated by humans trying to enjoy the Bay, jellies are a crucial part of the...
Read MoreClimate Change and Amphibians
While a warming climate in recent decades may be a factor in the waning of some local populations of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, it cannot explain the overall steep decline of amphibians, according to researchers. After analyzing many years of data for 81 North American amphibian species including more than 500,000 observations collected at more than 5,000 sites in 86 study areas by a...
Read MoreShark Tagging
Sharks. They’re everyone’s favorite underwater enemy. Between nerve-wracking dramas like Jaws to stories about prehistoric mega-sharks, we have all but made the shark species a completely fictionalized being. But scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) are hoping to change that. Charles “Chuck” Bangley, a marine ecologist at SERC, travels up and down the East Coast...
Read MoreBlue Carbon in Wetlands
It’s a true story of “grassroots science.” A team of over two dozen researchers set out to estimate how much carbon tidal wetlands across the U.S. can store. But the official datasets didn’t give them much info to work with. So they pooled their resources, creating a new dataset of nearly 2,000 wetland soil cores. Their final estimate: Nearly 800 million tons of carbon may lie buried in the...
Read MoreClimate Change and Corn
A researcher at Penn State University (PSU) is investigating temperature changes in the Northeast and how these changes will impact corn growth and development. Heather Karsten, associate professor of crop production ecology in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, used climate data and models from Syracuse, New York, State College, Pennsylvania, and Landisville, Pennsylvania to...
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