News

Next Generation: Katie Martin
February 6, 2019
Doctorate student Katie Martin is researching different ways to tell if septic wastewater is contaminating local waterways. Some of the tools used are measuring artificial sweeteners and chemicals from soaps and detergents.

'Wave of Plastic' partnership brings watershed education to Calvert and St. Mary’s students
January 29, 2019
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory has received funding from the NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training program to support the “Wave of Plastic,” an education partnership program that will help Southern Maryland students understand the connections between actions on land, plastic pollution in local waterways and the Chesapeake Bay, and student environmental stewardship.

Two new books bring together than 40 years of expertise on Chesapeake Bay
January 9, 2019
Ecologist Vic Kennedy offers baselines for abundance in Chesapeake Bay and a survey of the diamond-backed terrapin in two new books published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Next Generation: Zoraida Perez Delgado
January 3, 2019
Master's student Zoraida Pérez Delgado has been using coral records from the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean to understand how volcanic events have historically impacted precipitation and temperature over the last 400 years. By understanding how our climate has changed in the past, scientists hope to improve models used to predict future changes that have been accelerated by the burning of fossil fuels. .

Graduate Student Zoraida P. Pérez Delgado Awarded Knauss Fellowship
January 2, 2019
Congratulations to master’s student Zoraida P. Pérez Delgado, who has been awarded a place in the prestigious John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program.

Pages