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The Daily Item (Pennsylvania) (Mon 6 May, 2013)
To clean up the Chesapeake Bay, researchers say, we need to unleash oyster power
Staff quoted: Jeff Cornwell
Behold the tiny oyster.
The Ottumwa Courier (Iowa) (Mon 6 May, 2013)
To clean up the Chesapeake Bay, researchers say, we need to unleash oyster power
Staff quoted: Jeff Cornwell
Behold the tiny oyster.
The News Courier (Alabama) (Mon 6 May, 2013)
To clean up the Chesapeake Bay, researchers say, we need to unleash oyster power
Staff quoted: Jeff Cornwell
Behold the tiny oyster.
The Washington Post (Sun 5 May, 2013)
Researchers think industrious oysters could clean up Chesapeake
Staff quoted: Ken Paynter, Jeff Cornwell
Behold the tiny oyster.
Southern Maryland News (Fri 3 May, 2013)
County receives positive watershed quality report
Staff quoted: Walt Boynton
Walter Boynton of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory delivered a bit of good news to county commissioners Tuesday that the county's watershed water quality improved in 2012.
Southern Maryland News (Fri 3 May, 2013)
Calvert County urges residents to protect against vibrio
Staff quoted: Walt Boynton
With warmer weather approaching, county officials want to make sure the public is aware of the possibility of contracting a type of bacteria that can sometimes be life threatening.
The Bay Net News (Tue 30 Apr, 2013)
Study Shows Water Quality Improvement
Staff quoted: Walt Boynton
An optimistic tone highlighted the latest report from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) regarding the water quality of several Calvert County creeks. The report on 2012 data was presented to the Calvert County Commissioners by CBL's Dr. Walter Boynton during the board's Tuesday, April 30 meeting.
Scientific American (Tue 30 Apr, 2013)
Science Communication Both an Opportunity and an Obligation
Staff quoted: Don Boesch
In the 1980s I was working in the middle of nowhere to build Louisiana's first marine laboratory. We had two new research vessels in the works, but before they were in the water, my colleagues and I were working farther offshore in the Gulf of Mexico than we should have, in small boats on unpredictable seas. We were beginning to document a disturbing region in the Gulf where the oxygen is depleted from bottom waters during the summer.
Yahoo News (Tue 30 Apr, 2013)
Science communication both an opportunity and an obligation.
Staff quoted: Don Boesch
In the 1980s I was working in the middle of nowhere to build Louisiana's first marine laboratory. We had two new research vessels in the works, but before they were in the water, my colleagues and I were working farther offshore in the Gulf of Mexico than we should have, in small boats on unpredictable seas. We were beginning to document a disturbing region in the Gulf where the oxygen is depleted from bottom waters during the summer.
CBS Baltimore (Tue 30 Apr, 2013)
Oysters More Effective Than Previously Believed In Filtering Water
Staff quoted: Jeff Cornwell, Mike Owens
BALTIMORE (WJZ) – Scientists knew oysters were good for the bay but they never knew how good until now.