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On the Bay
Rain Gardens Make the Most of Nature’s Water Filtration Power
Madeleine Jepsen •
Harford County Watershed Stewards Academy students are learning how to protect and restore their local portion of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. They recently installed a rain garden.
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Coasts, Climate, and the Law: What We Learned at the Chesapeake Rising Symposium
Kerry McClaughry •
How can we help coastal communities in their quest to adapt to climate change? It was a warm day in early April when scientists, lawyers, policymakers, and students convened at the Georgetown Climate Center to wade through that pressing environmental question.
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Workshop Convenes Drone Pilots and Researchers to Aid the Study of Marshes
Annalise Kenney •
Maryland Sea Grant hosted a workshop for drone pilots and researchers to exchange information on latest projects, collaboration potential, and other opportunities to utilize drones in marsh research.
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Septic Maintenance Matters for the Chesapeake Bay
Madeleine Jepsen •
It’s almost certainly the most expensive appliance in your home. But unlike other appliances, septic systems are out of sight and out of mind—until something goes wrong, that is.
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The World is Your Oyster: Meet Annie Schatz, Aquaculture Projects Coordinator at Maryland Sea Grant
Sydney Sauls •
Annie Schatz’s journey in the marine sciences began in tears—and curiosity. Growing up in the landlocked state of Tennessee, her experiences with marine life were limited to beach trips to her grandparents' home and field trips to the aquarium. Fascinated by the creatures she saw, she struggled to understand why they looked so different from anything she had encountered on land. Read more...
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
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Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
