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CHESAPEAKE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY | SOLOMONS, MDJUNE 2022ISSUE 70Lab Lines1IN THIS ISSUE:DIRECTOR’S VIEW246As we begin our new nancial year on July 1, I oer congratulations to Drs Genny Nesslage and Lora Harris who were both promoted to Associate Research Professor and Professor respectively. Congratulations also to Casey Hodgkins who was promoted to FRA IV and was also awarded the President’s Award for Outstanding Research Support at the Commencement exercises in May. Congratulations to Mike O’Brien who was appointed to FRA IV also reecting his continued excellence in supported work in Dave Secor’s Lab. Final congratulations to Stacy Hutchinson who was accepted into this year’s class of Leadership Southern Maryland.The new year will also bring a new budget cycle. Last year was extremely tight - unprecedented budget cuts from the state and one of the lowest recoveries of indirect costs in the last decade. This put real pressure on operations - made all the more challenging by ongoing covid related restrictions. I want to thank all who have contributed to helping us weather the nancial storm. The state has increased our spending authority to restore cover FY21 cuts which will ease pressure on this year’s budget, and I am hopeful that the return to research activities that are evident throughout the lab will see increases in indirect costs. I remain optimistic for our future.OUTREACHIN CASE YOU MISSED IT/ PUBLICATIONS5SAFETY CORNER
In Case You Missed ItJackie Grebmeier reports on a few changes and personnel shifts in the Arctic research group she shares with Lee Cooper. Dr. Christina Goethel returned twice to Maryland from Iceland, the rst time in May to formally accept her Doctor of Philosophy degree awarded by UMCES last fall in the presence of family, but arriving late aboard a Player Airlines ight from Reykjavik diverted from BWI to Dulles Airport and then back again to Baltimore due to stormy conditions. Thanks are due to Janet Barnes for waiting out the t-storm many hours for her plane at BWI. Following a six month stay teaching and conducting research at the University of Akureyri in the north of Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar, Christina returned to CBL a second time this month to participate in summer research activities in the Arctic, including the Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS) cruise that will venture as far north as the North Pole aboard the USCGC Healy. Christina is also expecting to work on a UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development program development project for the Arctic with CBL alumna Dr. Chelsea Koch, who is working as a consultant for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO from her base in London. Samara Nehemiah worked out out of the NOAA/NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center in Beaufort, NC from June 6th to June 17th. Samara was working alongside Dr. Amy Schueller, who is serving as her NMFS mentor for her NOAA/Sea Grant Population and Ecosystem Dynamics Fellowship! This is the rst year of Samara’s fellowship and she plans to spend 2 weeks every summer working with Amy, getting some face-time but also getting familiar with what it’s like working within the Stock Assessment team in NOAA.Let’s talk dolphins! Lauren Rodriguez and Jamie Testa were panelists for the Ches-apeake Bay Journal’s Chesapeake Bay Dolphines seminar on June 22nd. Dolphin sightings in recent years have brought joy to many people, including scientists. Researchers are seizing the opportunity to explore dolphin behavior specic to the Bay region. Reporter Whitney Pipkin hosted the discussion with guests from Chesa-peake Dolphin Watch and the Potomac-Chesapeake Dolphin Project. Dr. Cédric Magen will also be aboard the Healy SAS cruise, thanks to a recently funded NSF Rapid grant, his rst ever NSF award as a lead PI. Congratulations to him and to his co-PI, Dr. Laura Lapham of CBL. Another graduate of our group, Dr. Laura Gemery also attended graduation to accept her degree in the presence of family, and she will also be participating in an Arctic research cruise this summer, but in this case aboard the Japanese vessel Mirai at the invitation of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (aka JAMSTEC). We have two new M.S. graduate students, Brian Marx, a recent graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, who is already working in Cronin learning how to identify Arctic invertebrates. A 2nd M.S. student Nick Silverson, will join our eorts this fall, coming to us from the Smithsonian. Finally, Emma Green has accepted a position at the St. Marys River Watershed Association, which is ultimately expected to lead to an executive director position for her at the non-prot organization. The Watershed Association has goals of protecting, improving and promoting the sustainability of the St. Mary’s River Watershed through the collaborative eorts of economic, agricultural, envi-ronmental, social, cultural, and political stakeholders in the community. Andrea Pfa is also working to nish her M.S. thesis as is Emma, and both will join the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Sir Wilfrid Laurier in July for our annual Distributed Biological Observatory cruise in the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Image: May 2022 Graduation picture (left to right: Christina, Jackie, Laura, and Lee)
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Continued: In Case You Missed ItPublicationsRead, Daniel J., and Bilal Habib. 2022. Hybrid hilltops: metabolism and the ecology of labor and capital in colonial central India. Journal of Peasant Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2080548. [Cont. No. 6187]Theresa Murphy’s paper on seagrass stable isotope composition is being feature in the Coastal and Estuarine Science News! The write up appears at the following link: https://cerf.memberclicks.net/cesn-may-2022#Article4Theresa E. Murphy, Joseph T. Molina, Danielle M. Quill, Paul A. Billeter, Kenneth Mattes, Ryan J. Woodland. 2022. Seagrass Stable Isotope Composition Provides Seascape-Scale Tracking of Anthropogenic Nitrogen Inputs in a Tropical Marine Lagoon. Estuaries and Coasts. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-022-01058-w [Cont. No. 6114]CBL has several new faces for the summer. Please welcome all our new and returning summer employees & volun-teers! Louise Carroll, Christiana Meyer and Jackson Duke have returned to CBL for the summer. New to the summer CBL team are; Lanie Funya, Tricia Kenzdzia, Jolie Ganzell, Allison Thompson, Sterling Bell, Titikasha Magesh and Dallin Johnson. Not all are pictured above but join us in welcoming all the new faces of CBL.
Here are two video links concerning working alone in the laboratory.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8DBd45W4hY&t=4shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4twZQCFk7bg
CBL Visitor CenterThe Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Visitor Center is now open! Through Labor Day weekend, our hours of operation will be:• Fridays from 1:00-4:30• Saturdays from 10:00-1:00 and from 1:00-4:30• Sundays from 10:00-1:00 and from 1:00-4:30We are seeking volunteer support from members of the CBL community through the end of July to support initial Visitor Center operations. If you are willing to volunteer for one or more of these volunteer shifts, please sign up using the following calendar tool: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ2Vs9hynUnMxtrQrUXLXI41kUvP5mgnjBCCTXxrWO_nymhrUevpGOtNi5mi8nXZm12ZiUZXQr8yWhen you sign up for day and time, it will automatically be taken o the list of available shifts. Visitor Center training will be provided prior to your rst volunteer shift. Dr. Miller has announced that he will hold a random draw from all those who have volunteered for prize awards of CBL swag and gift cards to local restaurants. The more you volunteer, the greater the chance of winning!If you have any questions about volunteering, please contact Sarah Brzezinski at brzezins@umces.edu.Thank you to the following individuals, who have already signed up to volunteer: Dr. Carys Mitchelmore. Louise Carroll, Dr. Slava Lyubchich, Kirsten Silva, Sarah Jones, Samara Nehemiah, Ceana Hoburn, Stacy Hutchinson, Renee Arnold, Jamie Testa, Dr. Hali Kilbourne, and Dr. Tom Miller.Visitor Center Volunteer Recruitment The Chesapeake Biological Laboratory is recruiting volunteers from the Southern Maryland community to serve as docents in our Visitor Center! The Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Visitor Center provides guests with the opportunity to learn about cutting-edge research being pioneered by CBL scientists on Solomons Island. Our dedicated Visitor Center docents serve a vital role in explaining our research to the public and helping guests understand the importance of the work we do. If you know a community member who would like to join the docent team after July, or if you would like to continue to volunteer, please contact Sarah Brzezinski at brzezins@umces.edu.www.umces.edu/cbl | 410-326-4281P.O. Box 38 | 146 Williams Street | Solomons, MD 20688-0038OutreachThe Patuxent River Wade-InThank you to Dr. Tom Miller, Dr. Walter Boynton, Dr. Carys Mitchelmore, Dr. Dong Liang, Jamie Testa, Anna Hildebrand, Louise Carroll, Desa Kerry Bolger, Eban Charles and Dalia Bercow, all of whom volunteered at the 35th annual Patuxent River Wade-In! The Patuxent River Wade-In is an event that raises awareness of water clarity, as it relates to broader water quality in the river and the Chesapeake Bay. The event was launched and championed by Senator Bernie Fowler, for whom one of our main lab buildings is named. Sen. Fowler, who passed on December 12, 2021, was an esteemed, decades-long friend of CBL and an ardent advocate for the Patuxent River. With the support of his family, we celebrated the legacy of Sen. Fowler at this year’s Wade-In and achieved a wade-in depth of 39 inches. Dr. Tom Miller and outreach coordinator Sarah Brzezinski, who served on the Wade-In planning committee, look forward to continuing support for this event in future years, along with colleagues from the American Chestnut Land Trust, Jeerson Patterson Park and Museum, Friends of Jeerson Patterson Park and Museum, and Patuxent Environmental and Aquatic Research Laboratory.