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VIMS Algal Blooms
The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) recently received three awards totaling $2.5 million over three years to study harmful algal blooms, or HABs, positioning VIMS as a major player in quantifying the negative effects of HABs. VIMS received two grants through NOAA’s ECOHAB program that focuses on species related issues with algae. Dr. Kim Reece, and her team will use one of the...
Read MoreDetecting HABS With Drones
Dr. Donglai Gong, an assistant professor in physical oceanography at VIMS was practicing with his drone over the York River not long ago and noticed some strange streaking colorations in the water. He took pictures and shared them with colleagues at VIMS who quickly identified the colored patches as potential Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs). Thus began a collaborative effort between Gong and other...
Read MoreFighting Biofouling
Researchers at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Oyster Hatchery are studying ways to cultivate oysters as efficiently as possible. Small marine creatures like barnacles and bryozoans often settle on oyster cages and prevent a clean flow of water into the cages, causing sediments and algae to settle on the oysters. Otherwise known as biofouling, it can lead...
Read MoreSERC Rhode River Project
The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), West and Rhode Riverkeepr, and Ogburn Consulting are coordinating a novel, community focused, watershed restoration program for the Rhode River in Maryland. The project, entitled Rhode to Restoration, has just been awarded funding through a National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund Small Watershed grant. The...
Read MoreMeasure the Muck
A professor from Old Dominion University will be hosting an event in conjunction with the “Catch the Tide” project on November 5th. The Virginian-Pilot and media partners at the Daily Press, WHRO Public Media and WVEC-TV have come together to raise awareness about sea level rise at an astronomically high tide, called the king tide. This year’s king tide will arrive on a full...
Read MoreArctic Ice
Researchers at Old Dominion University’s Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography (CCPO) are studying how floating ice sheets melt in three Arctic locations. Using ocean circulation models, they are observing how ocean water inundates the base of the ice sheets, causing them to melt. The research is being conducted by John Klinck, director of CCPO, and two research scientists from Old...
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