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Bay-Wise Landscaping
Grant Program Website:
http://extension.umd.edu/baywiseSupport Agency:
Program Contact:
UME Bay-Wise Program
Wanda MacLachlan
Area Educator, Residential and Landscape Management
Central Maryland Research and Education Center
11975 Homewood Road
Ellicott City, MD 21042
Area Educator, Residential and Landscape Management
Central Maryland Research and Education Center
11975 Homewood Road
Ellicott City, MD 21042
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Rolling certificationPurpose:
Sponsored by the University of Maryland Extension, this program encourages landscaping with low-input lawn care. Less fertilizer, less application of pesticides, and the use of beneficial plants will help to reduce pollution and enhance wildlife habitat. Have your home landscape assessed and certified as Bay-Wise for free by local University of Maryland Master Gardeners.Support Type:
Technical AssistanceRestoration Activity:
Tree plantings, habitat restoration, conservationEligibility:
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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.
