Hailing from Peoria, AZ, Andrea Sylvia came to the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in January 2013 to pursue her Masters degree through the Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences (MEES) Graduate Program. Having successfully defended her thesis on April 9, 2015, Andrea is now the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory’s newest graduate!

In 1960, CBL Research Associate David Cargo started a daily routine of strolling down the CBL research pier and recording the number of jellyfish he could see in the water. Today, CBL Assistant Professor Dr. Hongsheng Bi and his students are continuing the same method — and are working on a new jellyfish-counting method as well.

CBL Professor Dr. David Secor is co-leading the Chesapeake Sturgeon Initiative, a project that seeks to discover what a fish that swam with dinosaurs and fed Jamestown colonists needs to survive in the Chesapeake Bay today.

Gov. O'Malley names Chesapeake Biological Laboratory scientist Walter Boynton an Admiral of the Chesapeake.

CBL Research Professor Dr. Lisa Wainger is examining both the environmental and economic costs and benefits of fighting one of the southern Louisiana waterways’ most troublesome invasive species: water hyacinth.

Each winter since 1988, CBL has worked with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences to conduct a dredge survey that estimates the total number of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay.

CBL Assistant Professor Dr. Laura Lapham is examining the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane in the Baltic Sea, Chesapeake Bay, and Arctic lakes.

CBL Assistant Professor Dr. Jeremy Testa is trying to understand the effects big storms have on the behavior and health of shallow bodies of water, focusing on Maryland’s Chincoteague Bay.

CBL Research Assistant Professor Dr. Helen Bailey is developing a system that predicts the whereabouts of whales off the West Coast. Although commercial whaling has ended, many whale species have been slow to increase in number. This project aims to help reduce harmful human impacts on whales.