As erosion threatens treasured places around the Chesapeake Bay, communities are turning to nature-based solutions. Explore how living shorelines are helping to protect coasts and heritage on opposite shores of the Bay.
Living shoreline plants have a tough job: they must hold down the sandy shoreline with their roots and ease waves with their stems, all while surviving salty water.
Researchers are on a mission to determine which key components make a living shoreline successful at preventing erosion—but first they must gather crucial data.
Oyster biology is both an obstacle and an opportunity when it comes to living shorelines. Learn how and why oysters are sometimes included in living shoreline projects.
A living shoreline is under construction in Baltimore City—part of a sweeping project that aims to restore more than 50 acres of habitat along 11 miles of shoreline.
MARYLAND SEA GRANT'S REU STUDENTS have gone on to contribute to the field of marine science, following diverse career paths both nationally and on the Chesapeake Bay. Here are some of the program's talented alumni from over the years.
CYNTHIA SUCHMAN (Class of '89) Undergraduate at: Amherst College, Massachusetts; REU advisor/institution: Denise Breitburg, Academy of Natural Sciences Research Center
Where is she now: Suchman served as assistant director for Virginia Sea Grant from 2004 to 2007. She is a program director in the division of Ocean Sciences within the Geosciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation.
CARLOS LOZANO (Class of '05) Undergraduate at: University of Texas at San Antonio; REU advisor/institution: Edward Houde, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES)
Where is he now: Lozano received his master's degree from the University of Maryland's Marine Estuarine Environmental Science program. He is now a faculty research assistant in Houde's lab where he studies, among other things, the early lives of fish in the Bay.
JEANETTE DAVIS (Class of '06) Undergraduate at: Hampton University, Virginia; REU advisor/institution: Judy O'Neil, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Where is she now: Jeanette Davis is completing her Ph.D. from the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (UMCES), in Baltimore, where she studies the bacterial communities associated with tropical sea slugs. In February 2015, Davis will begin a Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, serving as a sea turtle science coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Do you want to help young learners explore the Chesapeake Bay and other marine environments? It can be tricky to know where to start, so we’ve put together this list of selected Bay and marine education resources that can be found online.
As erosion threatens treasured places around the Chesapeake Bay, communities are turning to nature-based solutions. Explore how living shorelines are helping to protect coasts and heritage on opposite shores of the Bay.
Living shoreline plants have a tough job: they must hold down the sandy shoreline with their roots and ease waves with their stems, all while surviving salty water.
Researchers are on a mission to determine which key components make a living shoreline successful at preventing erosion—but first they must gather crucial data.
Oyster biology is both an obstacle and an opportunity when it comes to living shorelines. Learn how and why oysters are sometimes included in living shoreline projects.
A living shoreline is under construction in Baltimore City—part of a sweeping project that aims to restore more than 50 acres of habitat along 11 miles of shoreline.
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