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Resilient Communities and Economies
Restoration and sustainability of Maryland’s natural resources mean different things to different interest groups or stakeholders. Traditional drivers such as commercial fishing and agricultural patterns are changing, and recent policy decisions and management actions are creating new and different economic opportunities in traditional tidewater communities. Communities and local governments face new challenges to adapt to climate change and meet new TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load) requirements to limit nutrient and sediment pollution.
Maryland Sea Grant will support research to:
- Understand linked environmental-socioeconomic responses to environmental change and efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay. Issues include water resources management, stable shorelines, tourism and recreation, marine spatial planning, etc.
- Understand community and ecological responses to Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and Watershed Implementation Plans (WIPs).
For additional detail, visit our recent Request for Proposals or the Maryland Sea Grant Strategic Plan.
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Featured Fellow
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.
Chesapeake Quarterly Magazine
The Nature of Learning: Environmental Education for the Next Generation
