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Coastal Flooding Implications
Virginia Tech Researcher Looks at Human Impacts of Coastal Flooding Over half of Virginia’s population lives along the coast and face increasing threats from extreme weather events and sea level rise. There is a need to better understand the impacts coastal flooding and hazards pose for these coastal communities and how to develop resilience strategies to prepare those affected. Anamaria...
Read MoreConowingo Dam Impacts
UMCES Scientists Find the Bay is More Resilient Than Expected Sitting on the lower Susquehanna River, the Conowingo Dam has trapped most of the sediment and nutrients, like nitrogen and phosphorus, in its upstream reservoir, keeping them from flowing into the Chesapeake Bay. Recent concerns about the storage capacity of the dam have raised questions about its potential impacts to...
Read MoreWetland Soil Microbes
Warming Temperatures May Be Better for Wetlands The Global Change Research Wetland (GCREW), located at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), is home to several long-term experiments designed to predict the effects of sea-level rise and climate change on coastal wetland ecosystems. Genevieve Noyce, a coastal wetland biogeochemist and research scientist at SERC, works on the...
Read MoreBMP Effectiveness
Using Watershed Data to Determine Cost-Effective BMPs A study from researchers at Penn State and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides a case study that using site-specific watershed data to determine the most cost-effective agricultural best management practices (BMPs) is not only less expensive, but equally effective. Researchers used the Spring Creek watershed, an area of...
Read MoreHampton Roads Resiliency
ODU Researchers Engage Community About Flood Adaptation Flooding and sea level rise (SLR) pose a problem to nearly every part of the Hampton Roads area. A research team from Old Dominion University (ODU) Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience designed the Action-Oriented Stakeholder Engagement for a Resilient Tomorrow (ASERT) framework to engage stakeholders in adaptation actions...
Read MoreOyster Supply Chain
How Oysters are Shipped Makes All the Difference in Seafood Safety Have you ever thought about how an oyster gets to your plate? Consumers often only see the name of the farm and the restaurant where they are eating, but not all the steps in between. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) in the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental...
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