Sentences with phrase «bay environmental center»

Although he disagreed with the policy, Byrd said he nonetheless passed the warning down to the various offices he worked with, including the Coral Reef Conservation Program at the Biscayne Bay Environmental Center in Miami.

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Mass Audubon, the University of Rhode Island's Coastal Resources Center, and the Natural Capital Project recently received a $ 560,636 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop information on the human benefits provided by the Narragansett Bay watershed.

«At its core, the program monitors water quality in the watershed and the bay and also does environment modeling that's required to track progress,» says Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

«The increasing frequency and intensity of these harmful algae blooms will impact our ability to achieve the ultimate goal of restoring a healthy ecosystem in the Bay and put a premium on effective methods to reduce nutrient pollution,» said Don Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

A recent study of harmful algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science show a marked increase in these ecosystem - disrupting events in the past 20 years that are being fed by excess nitrogen runoff from the watershed.

Last year, for instance, a team led by aquatic ecologist Gregory Ruiz of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, found that ballast water from ships entering the Chesapeake Bay contained Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera.

However, a new study from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) found that the methane building up in the Chesapeake Bay alone, if released, would be equal to the current estimates for all the estuaries in the world combined.

Thus, the planet is really more like an «Earth cousin,» says Thomas Barclay of the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, a co-author of the paper announcing the discovery in April 2014.

«Forecasting how a major coastal ecosystem, the Chesapeake Bay, responds to decreasing nutrient pollution is a challenge due to year - to - year variations and natural lags,» said Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science leads the way toward better management of Maryland's natural resources and the protection and restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.

In San Francisco Bay, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center biologists discovered a hidden side effect: All that freshwater rain can turn the tables on some of the bay's invasive speciBay, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center biologists discovered a hidden side effect: All that freshwater rain can turn the tables on some of the bay's invasive specibay's invasive species.

Previously he was a Group Leader and Senior Scientist with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute where he worked in conjunction with the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA.

-- On November 3rd and 4th, Center for Inspired Teaching partnered with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to teach teachers and district leaders at the Maryland Environmental Literacy Partnership's fall workshop.

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Since opening in May 2001, Crissy Field Center — a non-profit partnership of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, National Park Service, and Presidio Trust — has provided relevant, multicultural environmental education to nearly 600,000 people and worked with more than 400 community organizations and schools throughout the Bay Area.

Just down Route 9 from Atlantic City, this park is more than just a beautiful beach overlooking Delaware Bay, it also has dense forest trails perfect for hiking, an environmental center, and historic lighthouse.

Kristen Hislop is the Marine Conservation Program Director at the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) and also works with Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program as a consulting researcher.

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May 16, 2017 — Brock Environmental Center for a Living Chesapeake: Building a Sustainable Legacy for the Bay

The highlights of his years between college and grad school include bicycling across the country, working at the environmental education center for the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, spending a year as an agricultural intern at the Land Institute in Kansas, and working at a commercial trout hatchery in Massachusetts.