News articles featuring UMCES personnel http://ian.umces.edu/news/ Integration and Application Network Dyke Marsh will be the subject of a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Huntley Meadows Park visitors center, 3701 Lockheed Blvd., Alexandria. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=544 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=544 Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT Twice a day, a flying wedge of the Atlantic Ocean surges northward along the bottom of the Chesapeake. The volume of the tidal flood and ebb is nine times greater than the amount of rainwater that the Bay and all its rivers normally send to the sea. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=545 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=545 Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT A team of researchers led by University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science researcher Dr. Sujay Kaushal has been among the first able to quantify the amount of excess nitrogen removed from an urban stream during environmental restoration projects. This breakthrough will allow environmental managers to accurately assess the pollution reducing benefits of stormwater management and urban stream restoration, and could lead to new nitrogen reduction opportunities as public works managers make repairs to our nation's aging urban infrastructure. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=543 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=543 Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT GRASONVILLE - The president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science says the consequences of doing nothing about climate change "are really severe," but that people acting at the local level can make a difference now. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=540 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=540 Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT Holly Kyle, J.B. and Donna Churchill and William Doty listen to Frostburg State University wildlife and fisheries seniors and water chemistry lab employees Dave Kazyak and Mandy Weston describe the potential future affects of global warming on streams recently during an open house at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory in Frostburg. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=536 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=536 Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT The theme of the first major HoCoH2O event was connection. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=538 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=538 Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT From Solomons comes bad news for saltwater anglers, who may have to travel farther to reach the fish. Cold-water fish — like north Atlantic cod and salmon — will retreat from the southern boundaries of their ranges. Subtropical warm-water species — like red drum and spotted sea trout — may expand into more northerly waters, according to climate change studies by University of Maryland graduate students at Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. More frequent and intense storms could also disrupt feeding and nurseries of game fish like snook and croaker. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=532 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=532 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Patuxent River received a D-minus for 2007 in the river system's first health report card, a poor result environmentalists say is largely caused by the effects of suburban and urban growth. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=533 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=533 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT Early each spring pregnant bowhead whales, insulated by up to a foot and a half of fat that helps them withstand frigid Arctic waters, pass north through the Bering Strait and pause in their annual, 3,500-mile migration to give birth to one-ton calves. Following cracks in the melting ice pack off the north coast of Alaska, these bowheads feed on the riot of tiny marine invertebrates that erupts as the returning sunlight sparks a reawakening of an elaborate food chain. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=539 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=539 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT Two reports released in April continue to paint a picture of a Bay ecosystem that remains severely degraded despite a quarter century of restoration efforts. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=541 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=541 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT In a move painful for watermen but one that scientists said was essential to maintain the Bay's most valuable remaining fisheries, Virginia and Maryland in April moved to slash female blue crab harvests by 34 percent this year. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=542 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=542 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT It's been more than 20 years in the making, but the Calvert County Board of County Commissioners awarded a contract April 22 for the construction of a roundabout on Solomons Island. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=534 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=534 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT Underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay increased 10 percent last year but fell far short from the target, an annual aerial survey released Monday found. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=531 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=531 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT Scientists and state environmental officials already know potentially toxic microbes are common in Delaware's Inland Bays. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=535 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=535 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Patuxent River barely escaped an F on the first report card issued by Patuxent Riverkeeper and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=528 http://ian.umces.edu/news/?aid=528 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT