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In Memoriam: Ed Bouwer
CRC Mourns the Loss of Long-time CRC Friend, Ed Bouwer Dr. Edward “Ed” John. Bouwer, a longtime Johns Hopkins professor and CRC board member, passed away in October. He was 63. Bouwer, a nationally-recognized environmental engineer, had been at Johns Hopkins since 1985 and became the chair of that department in 2007. During that time, the program was recognized as one of the top 10 in the...
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Johns Hopkins PhD candidate creates resource list to help underrepresented minority and low-income students in STEM This past spring at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Lavontria Miché Aaron, a second-year PhD candidate studying Martian remote sensing and in-situ spectroscopy at Johns Hopkins University, tweeted that she had resources for underrepresented minority...
Read MoreConductivity in Maryland Streams
How Water Chemistry Changes in Response to Urbanization Scientists have long known that land development can have significant negative impacts on local streams. Instead of focusing on water quality measured with a single grab sample, a team of researchers at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) looked at water chemistry over a 30-year time span as 12 watersheds were developed....
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Timothy Canty Named Director of UMD’s Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences Graduate Program The University System of Maryland’s interdisciplinary Marine Estuarine Environmental Science (MEES) Graduate Program has found a new director in Timothy Canty, who began this role in August 2019. Canty is an associate research professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science (AOSC)...
Read MoreHurricane Birds
Small Coastal Birds Can Weather Major Storms People often use shorebirds as the quintessential example of birds affected by hurricanes, oil spills, and other major disturbances. But a research team led by a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland’s National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) found that shorebird populations are actually quite resistant to these...
Read MoreOil Spill Drill
VIMS Helps State Prepare for Oil Spills on the Eastern Shore Off the coast of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, shipping vessels move continuously between the Chesapeake Bay, the Delaware Bay, and major ports farther north. But the coastline is lined with barrier islands and pristine salt marshes, home to many of the most sensitive organisms in the state. That’s why federal, state, and local agencies...
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