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The Role of Small Inlets as Potential Reactor Vessels for Gelatinous Zooplankton in Chesapeake Bay

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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Co-Principal investigator:

Denise L. Breitburg, Academy of Natural Sciences Estuarine Research Laboratory

Tracking the source of nutrients fueling brown tide blooms in Maryland

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Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Co-Principal investigator:

Louis A. Codispoti, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Visioning for sustaining rural communities on Maryland's eastern shore

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Center for the Environment and Society, Washington College

Co-Principal investigator:

Philip G. Favero, Institute for Governmental Service, University of Maryland, College Park; Wendy G. Miller, Washington College

A Novel Approach to Inducing Sterility in Farmed Fish: Disrupting the Early Establishment of the GnRH System

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Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

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Benthic Studies in Chesapeake Bay: (1) Analysis and Synthesis of Faunal Data in Relation to Sediment and Water Column Interactions and (2) Scope for Future Needs

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Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

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Characterizing the performance of the Suminoe Oyster, Crassostrea ariakensis, in Maryland waters

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University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Biology

Co-Principal investigator:

Donald Meritt, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Standish K. Allen, Virginia Institute Of Marine Studies

Coastal Communities

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Maryland Sea Grant College

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Determining The Overlap Between Critical Terrapin Habitat and Commercial Crab and Eel Pot Fisheries

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Ohio University

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Do Oyster Filtration and Wave Attenuation Associated with Oyster Reefs and Breakwater Improve Seagrass Habitat?

Institution:

Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Co-Principal investigator:

Evamaria Koch, Roger Newell, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Enhancing Fish Muscle Growth through Blocking Myostatin Function

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Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

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Growth and Recruitment of Juvenile Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab

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Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Co-Principal investigator:

H. Rodger Harvey, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Hyperspectral Reflectance of Freshwater Tidal Emergent Macrophytes as a Remote Sensing Tool for Assessing Wetland Nitrogen Status

Institution:

University of Maryland, College Park

Co-Principal investigator:

Andrew Baldwin, University of Maryland, College Park

Identification of candidate genes for chemotherapeutic and/or genetic intervention against Dermo disease using expression sequence tags (EST)

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Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

Co-Principal investigator:

Jose A. Fernandez-Robledo, Eric J. Schott, Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

Immunological Approaches to Understanding QPX Disease

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Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

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Infectivity and pathogenicity of recently described Perkinsus species present in the Eastern Oyster Crassostrea virginica

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Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

Co-Principal investigator:

Jose A. Fernandez-Robledo, Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

Maryland Sea Grant Extension Fisheries Extension Enhancement: Training and Education in support of Effective Controls for Scombroid (Histamine) Poisoning

Institution:

Maryland Sea Grant College

Co-Principal investigator:

Thomas E. Rippen, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Producing and Deploying an Autonomous Urea Monitor

Institution:

Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Co-Principal investigator:

Louis A. Codispoti, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

The Use of Stable Isotopes to Measure Contaminant Movements in Wetlands

Institution:

Academy of Natural Sciences Estuarine Research Center

Co-Principal investigator:

Richard Osman, Academy of Natural Sciences Estuarine Research Laboratory

Validating Acoustic Sensing Techniques to Detect Habitat Changes in Oyster Reefs

Institution:

Cooperative Oxford Laboratory

Co-Principal investigator:

Roger I.E. Newell, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Roger L. Mann, Virginia Institute of Marine Studies; Clyde Mackenzie, Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory

(CERP): Quantifying Ecological Risks of Contaminated Sediments on Living Resources in Supporting Decisions on Habitat Restoration Strategies in the Chesapeake Bay (Maryland Portion)

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Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

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Chitinosomes in Microbulbifer degradans: A New Paradigm for the Degradation of Complex Polysaccharides of Marine Origin

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University of Maryland, College Park

Co-Principal investigator:

Steve Hutcheson, University of Maryland, College Park

Combination Technologies for Ballast Water Treatment

Institution:

Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Co-Principal investigator:

Rodger Dawson, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Quantifying the Magnitude of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal Associated with Restoration of Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay

Institution:

Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Co-Principal investigator:

Jeffrey C. Cornwell, Donald W. Merritt, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Sediment Biogeochemistry and Seagrass Bed Development: Implications for Restoration and Sustainability

Institution:

Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Co-Principal investigator:

Jeffrey Cornwell, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Winter Mortality of Chesapeake Blue Crabs, Callinectes sapidus (Confidential proposal with patent pending)

Institution:

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Co-Principal investigator:

Victor S. Kennedy, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Thomas J. Miller, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science