Chesapeake Quarterly Wins Awards

This year Chesapeake Quarterly took home two Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX) for articles focused on the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. This is the fourth year in a row that the magazine has been so honored.

The first award was presented for the issue “Renewing an Urban Watershed” (Vol. 7, No. 2), with articles by Erica Goldman. The issue focuses on Watershed 263, an ultra-urban landscape where all the streams travel through underground pipes, and where restoration depends on community awareness and participation.

The second award came for “scientific and environmental writing” for an article by Jack Greer onthe increasing turbidity that clouds the Chesapeake Bay each year. Entitled “Shadow on the Chesapeake” (Vol 7, No. 3), the article traces the work of two researchers who have uncovered clues to the Bay’s puzzling haziness and evidence of what Smithsonian researcher Charles Gallegos calls “chronic eutrophication.”

The APEX competition, now in its twenty-first year, evaluated 3,785 entries in 2009 from all over the country. In the past, Maryland Sea Grant has won similar awards for Chesapeake Quarterly and for other environmental education efforts, including the field guide, Underwater Grasses in Chesapeake Bay & Mid-Atlantic Coastal Waters, and four educational panels on Hurricane Isabel, a storm that destroyed property and flooded towns up and down the Bay.

For more information on the APEX competition visit www.apexawards.com. For more about Chesapeake Quarterly, now in its eighth year, see www.mdsg.umd.edu/CQ.