Knauss legislative fellowships in Congress help build careers — and they're fun and educational. See our video and fact sheet for details.
Amanda Lawrence is a 2020 Knauss Fellow with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in the National Wildlife Refuge System for the Coastal and Marine Program. She will be involved in supporting America’s coastal watersheds and their surrounding communities, as well as in coastal conservation and restoration projects and issues across our United States coastal habitats.
Amanda grew up in Maryland; right outside of Annapolis and a bike ride away from the Chesapeake Bay. She completed a dual degree program receiving B.S. degrees in both Environmental Marine Science and Biology from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Salisbury University, respectively. Currently she is completing an M.S. degree in the Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences Graduate Program at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Her thesis involves understanding the size at which the male Jonah crab, a commercially important species, reaches maturity. She does this by studying male sex hormones, and hopes this research can be used to support the fishery.
During her graduate school career, Amanda was awarded the National Institute of Standards and Technology Fellowship. She was also a NOAA-Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center Fellow, and received the opportunity to intern with NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Mukilteo, WA, studying the effects of ocean acidification on Dungeness crab larval development. She loves being near the water in any capacity, be it researching, kayaking or diving.
Knauss legislative fellowships in Congress help build careers — and they're fun and educational. See our video and fact sheet for details.
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Smithville is a community on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, on the edge of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. A century ago, Smithville had more than 100 residents. Today, it has four, in two homes: an elderly couple, and one elderly woman and her son, who cares for her.
Oyster aquaculture is a rapidly growing industry in Maryland’s Chesapeake waters which stimulates economic activity and may provide a host of ecosystem benefits. A potential concern associated with the intensification of the oyster aquaculture is the local production and accumulation of oyster biodeposits, which can lead to a porewater sulfide accumulation and declining bioturbation, symptoms of declining ecosystem function. Sulfide is naturally removed from the seafloor by the interactions between bioturbating infauna and sulfide oxidizing bacteria.
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