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On the Bay
Maryland Sea Grant Welcomes Two State Science Policy Fellows
Ashley Goetz •
Modeled after the Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, the State Science Policy Fellowship pairs postgraduates with state agencies that bridge the fields of science and policy.
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Meet Maryland Sea Grant’s New Law and Policy Fellow
Ashley Goetz •
“Working with people is what it’s really about,” says Kai Hardy. Hardy joined Maryland Sea Grant in September 2023 to begin a year-long fellowship that bridges law, policy, and environmental research.
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New Project Prioritizes Hispanic Communities’ Perspectives about the Coast
Madeleine Jepsen •
Graduate research assistant Paola Mejia-Gist is working on a project about communicating climate change to Hispanic communities in Maryland.
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Restoring the Shore: Touring coastal projects in Maryland’s Coastal Bays region
Taryn Sudol •
“Got your boots?” Roman Jesien, lead scientist at the Maryland Coastal Bays Program (MCBP), greeted my colleague, Cayla, and I. Cayla Cothron, a climate resilience extension associate at North Carolina Sea Grant, and I had just finished the Mid-Atlantic Sea Grant Regional Meeting in Ocean City, Maryland. Read more...
Changing Course During a Pandemic: A period of reflection during lockdown leads to a shift in focus
Ashton Guildener •
I’ve taken a bit of a roundabout path to get where I am now in my education and career. Before graduating from high school in 2019, I focused most of my time on artistic endeavors: studio art classes, designing a literary magazine, and spending hours after school rearranging and programming theater lights. 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.
Featured Research Project
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.
