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Ju-Ching Huang

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Maryland Law and Policy Fellowship

Fellowship Institution:

Agriculture Law Education Initiative and Maryland Sea Grant College

Start Year

2022

Ju-Ching Huang is the 2022-2023 Maryland Law and Policy Fellow. She is currently an S.J.D. (equivalent to Ph.D.) candidate at Georgetown University Law Center. She received her LL.M. in Environmental Law and Policy from Stanford Law School. Her research explores the nexus between land-use decision-making and climate change governance. Ju-Ching has worked as a Taiwanese lawyer in a boutique law firm, legal counsel and planner for Taipei Urban Regeneration Center, and policy staffer of the Ministry of the Interior. At the Ministry, her work involved overseeing national land use from urban planning to coastal management, wetland, and national parks. She previously worked at Georgetown Climate Center and is currently a Managing Editor of Georgetown Environmental Law Review.

As an islander who grew up in Taiwan, her love for the land, coast, and ocean is the driving force behind her research and career path. She enjoys working in an interdisciplinary arena where law and science can complement each other in policy-making processes. Her recent research has been published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

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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.

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The Blue Crab: Callinectes Sapidus

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