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PSU & Citizen Scientists
We recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Heather Gall at Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and learn more about her work and new National Science Foundation award. Gall has just started to work on a citizen science project that tracks unregulated chemicals in the Susquehanna River. Although she has funding for 50-60 volunteers, Gall received overwhelming interest from 125 applicants...
Read MoreNew Professor at JHU
Scot Miller joined the Dept. of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor in January. Miller studies emissions of different greenhouse gases and air pollutants. He uses observations of these gases collected in the atmosphere — from aircraft, telecommunications towers, and satellites. Miller combines these observations with atmospheric and statistical...
Read MoreJHU Alum Wins Award
Kacey Wetzel is the Director of Outreach and Education for The Chesapeake Bay Trust, and was recently named one of 100 Leading Women by The Daily Record, an award that highlights successful women under 40 in Maryland “judged on professional experience, community involvement and their commitment to inspiring change.” Business and legal professionals at The Daily Record pick the...
Read MoreODU & Sea Level Rise
Like most people in Hampton Roads, Old Dominion University (ODU) President John R. Broderick is directly impacted by sea level rise. Dr. Broderick sees how rising waters, from a high tide or storm event, regularly flood the ODU campus in Norfolk, Virginia. Much of coastal Virginia struggles with understanding the underlying issues, formulating effective responses and ensuring everyone has...
Read MoreSERC and CCRCN
Researchers from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) were recently awarded a Research Coordination Network (RCN) grant from the National Science Foundation with the goal of accelerating the pace of discovery in coastal carbon science by serving a community of researchers and practitioners with data, tools, and synthesis. Tidal marshes, mangrove swamps, and seagrass meadows...
Read MoreWalter Boynton Wins Award
Walter Boynton has spent decades investigating Chesapeake Bay working to understand more about the health of its ecosystem as a professor and researcher for the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Working in parallel was Carl S. Weber, a man on a similar mission who dedicated his own life and work at University of Maryland-Baltimore County to increasing watershed awareness...
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