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Watershed Stewards Academy
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https://extension.umd.edu/programs/environment-natural-resources/program-areas/…Support Agency:
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Watershed Protection and Restoration Program
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The Watershed Stewards Academy (WSA) is a training program to empower residents to improve the quality of local waterways. Master Watershed Stewards are available to provide information to homeowners on practices they can implement to reduce backyard flooding, reduce pollutants, infiltrate stormwater and restore natural systems.
Currently, the Watershed Steward Academy is in Anne Arundel County, Calvert County, Cecil County, Harford County, Howard County, St. Mary's County, and the National Capital Region (covering Montgomery County, Prince George’s County, Washington, D.C.).
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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.
