Congratulations to our Future Knauss Fellows!

Congratulations are in order once again! One year ago, CBL had one student, Alex Atkinson, accepted into the Knauss Fellowship program. She's currently doing great things in the NOAA Office of Habitat Conservation, helping with a project to restore fish and wildlife habitat. Now, we are overjoyed to report that we have two Knauss Fellows from CBL!

So if you see or know Aimee Hoover or Gray Redding, please congratulate them. Both report that they are working hard on their theses so they can focus on finding a good office placement in the Fall. We look forward to seeing what great work they will do in 2017. We are so proud to have CBL represented once again in the class of incoming Knauss Fellows.

Our First Seine Demonstration at Calvert Cliffs State Park

Summer is here! We're out of class and into nature, some for fun and some for field work. The students in Dr. Secor's lab have restarted the annual seine survey (click HERE for our post on the history of this survey and how it is conducted). Though it's been going on for more than 15 years now, we realized that few of the public have ever seen this performed or know the significance of the data we collect in examining long term trends of fish abundance and diversity in our little corner of the Chesapeake Bay. We wanted to extend the operation to a public venue- though not for the purposes of data collection. We partnered with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the outstanding, hard working rangers at Calvert Cliffs State Park, just north of our campus here in Solomons, MD to demonstrate a seining event. Check out the photos, all of which were taken by Christina Goethel, masters degree student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory.

Ours was only one of several interpretive programs at Calvert Cliffs that weekend. They also offer such programs as nature hikes and fossil discovery. Calvert Cliffs is infamous for the many readily-available shark tooth fossils easy to discover right along the beach. Click HERE to see a full calendar of events from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. We plan to repeat our seine demonstration next month, during July 4th weekend. So if you missed us this time, don't fret! There'll be more chances to get up close and personal with silversides, menhaden, croaker, and even a softshell crab or two!