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Bill Ball’s Lasting Impact
The Lasting Impact of Retiring Executive Director, Bill Ball By Paula Jasinski and Gina Sawaya, Green Fin Studio CRC has been beyond lucky to have had Bill Ball lead the way over the last five years. The impacts of his long professional career can be felt throughout the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed and much further afield. With Ball’s retirement as CRC’s Executive...
Read MoreC-StREAM at CERF
C-StREAM Participation in CERF Rising TIDES Program Two-time C-StREAM fellow, Nick Coleman, was recently awarded funding to attend the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) biennial conference through the Rising TIDES (Toward an Inclusive, Diverse, and Enriched Society) initiative. The Rising TIDES Conference Mentoring Program will support fourteen underrepresented minority...
Read MoreFall 2019 Director’s Corner
Dear Colleagues, This is my thirteenth and final “Director’s Corner” and one that I am delighted to share with my successor as Executive Director, Dr. Denice Wardrop; she has contributed a short postscript at the bottom. And speaking of Denice – I encourage you to get to know her (if you do not already) and engage in common work with her in the months and years ahead – I have had that privilege...
Read MoreCoastal Risk Management
Understanding the Factors that Impact Climate Risk Management Strategies Planners use all kinds of projections to understand how climate change will affect infrastructure, but all projections are based on assumptions that change their outcomes. Decision makers are tasked with weighing different projections to design cost effective risk management strategies to protect populations from...
Read MoreCover Crop Combinations
Penn State Researcher Helps Farmers Choose the Best Cover Crop Mix Nutrient pollution remains a major challenge for the Chesapeake Bay, but planting cover crops may be one of the strongest best management practices that farmers can use to reduce their impact. Dr. Jason Kaye of Penn State has spent a decade researching cover crop species individually and in mixes. He wanted to study cover crops...
Read MoreMarsh Sea Level Rise
Shorter marsh grasses and adapting to sea level rise As carbon dioxide increases, most plants respond by getting bigger. CO2 acts like fuel for most plants, allowing them to grow higher and thicker, increasing their biomass. But what happens when you look at individual plants, particularly in marsh grasses, instead of overall biomass? Scientists had long saw that increasing CO2 led to...
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