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Next Generation: Jacob Oster
November 1, 2017
Get to know graduate student Jacob Oster, who is studying mercury accumulation in small stream ecosystems.

Bay grasses return to the shores of Solomons, but will they persist?
September 26, 2017
Bay grasses have not been seen in the waters of the Patuxent River near the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory pier since the late 1960s...that is, until 2017.

Laura Lapham awarded grant to help girls advance in STEM
September 20, 2017
Dr. Laura Lapham, assistant professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, was awarded one of ten Changing the Face of STEM (CTFS) mentoring grants from the L’Oréal USA For Women in Science program.

Flight of the rockfish: What migration taught us about Maryland's state fish
September 19, 2017
Dr. David Secor, a fisheries scientist at University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, has made a career out of understanding where fish migrate and why. We talk to him about one of his most critical studies, Potomac and Atlantic Striped Bass Telemetry Study.

What forecasting dead zones teaches us about Chesapeake Bay
August 30, 2017
Scientists forecast a larger-than-average dead zone in Chesapeake Bay during summer 2017, but as summer came to an end, it looked to be an overestimate. We talk to Jeremy Testa, an expert from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, about what makes a dead zone and why the forecast might have missed the mark.

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