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CHESAPEAKE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY | SOLOMONS, MDNOVEMBER 2023ISSUE 87Lab LinesIN THIS ISSUE:DIRECTOR’S VIEWSAFETY CORNER1IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Counng down the semesterTis the season…for conferences! Last month we saw many of our sciensts presenng in person at local, Naonal, and Internaonal conferences rather than online which became more common since COVID. These included: Coastal and Estuarine Research Federaon (CERF) in Portland, Oregon; the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) in Louisville, Kentucky; the Maryland Water Monitoring Council conference here in Linthicum, Maryland; and global meengs in Tokyo, Norway and at the Japan Society of Fisheries Oceanography in Sapporo Hokkaido, Japan. Ma Stefanak co-chaired a session at CERF and many students presented at these conferences. Conference aendance can be partly aributed to generous donaons we have received over the year by the public. Our students connue to receive awards. Congratulaons to Samara Nehemiah who received the Clint Waters Scholarship from the Mid-Shore Fishing Club.Of course, it is also the season for holidays. With Thanksgiving just behind us, the end of the year holidays (and nal exams!) are fast approaching. Our holiday celebraon is on December 15th at noon; remember your Yankee Swap item if you wish to partake and strategically place yourself next to someone good at Trivia. We have lots of food and fun, so please come and join in for this last community event for the year. But before that, please aend some of the very important events coming up. On December 11th from 10-12 pm, the enre CBL community is requested to aend the UMCES Instuonal Assessment meeng. Your input is crical to how the 2024 assessment will be designed, including the quesons asked in the anonymous online survey – there’s also free lunch and door prizes! We also have our last disnguished seminar speaker of the year on December 13th with Dr. Emily Cohen from the Appalachian Laboratory giving her promoon talk. Our lunchme seminar series will conclude on December 8th, with Jessica McGlinsey showcasing her work on the iconic Maryland Diamondback terrapin. We have also welcomed several new faces to CBL this semester, Rebecca Windgate returns to the Secor lab and Tyesha Thomas joins our facilies team. Please use these December events to meet and say Hi to our new community members.7IN THE NEWS TAILWINDS UPDATE56RECENT PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS14NEW FACES238
In Case You Missed It2Ryan Woodland, Jeremy Tesa, Ming Li and Ma Stefanak co-chaired a session at the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federaon's 26th Biennial Meeng that was tled "Exploring the hydrodynamics, biogeochemistry and ecology of inshore-oshore coastal plumes." The conference was held in Portland, Oregon, from Nov 12-16. The following members of the Woodland lab all presented oral or poster presentaons at the meeng: Nina Santos, Theresa Murphy, Lael Collins, Ma Stefanak, and Ryan Woodland. For a list of presentaons at the CERF 2023 conference click here.The Coastal and Estuarine Research Federaon will hold its biennial conference in Portland, Oregon from November 12-16th. There will be 56 aendees from across the Alliance (Guam and Micronesia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, UMCES) supported by the SEAS Islands Alliance, an eort to support parcipaon in the ocean sciences by islanders from U.S. Territories. UMCES is involved in the SEAS Islands Alliance via leadership and involvement in the Puerto Rico Hub and the Bridge to the PhD program. If you are aending, please look up these presentaons and see what SEAS parcipants are working on. hps://www.seasislandsalliance.org/news-events/2023-cerf-conference-presentaon-schedule/On November 10th, Samara Nehemiah was awarded the Clint Waters Student Award in Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Sciences (MEES). The Clint Waters Scholarship was established by the Mid-Shore Fishing Club.Dave Secor got to enjoy this touch tank and the chum salmon spawning run while aending the Japan Society of Fisheries Oceanography meeng in Sapporo Hokkaido 11-12 November. (No worries IACUC-ers – it’s a model). FRA’s Jamie Testa and Kirsten Silva aended the 2023 Ropeless and North Atlanc Right Whale Consorum meengs in October. Ropeless shing gear is a possible soluon to decrease entanglement of endangered and protected marine species. The Ropeless Consorum is an opportunity to learn about new technologies and progress made with ropeless shing gear. The North Atlanc Right Whale Consorum (NARWC) shares updates on current populaon, distribuon and health of this crically endangered species.Congratulaons to CBL Alum Ben Frey who is now Coastal Program Biologist for USFWS in Lansing Michigan.Ben Frey
In Case You Missed It3On November 17th, at the annual conference of the Maryland Water Monitoring Council, Sadia Ali presented a poster "Assessing and understanding spaotemporal variaon in stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope values of Maryland's rivers"; co-author Lee Cooper also aended the conference. Carys Mitchelmore chaired a session on cosmec products and over the counter (OTC) drugs and presented a number of posters on behalf of the CBL UV lter sunscreen team (Drs. Gonsior and Heyes) at the SETAC North America 44th Annual meeng (November 12-16) in Louisville, Kentucky.Jackie Grebmeier and Chrisna Goethel are at the Pacic Arcc Group meeng in Tokyo, and Jackie just returned from Tromso, Norway where she aended a conference on the Norwegian Nansen Legacy program as an internaonal advisor to the Norwegian science program.Johan Schi presented on behalf of the biogeochemistry group, tled "Capabilies for Environmental Sample Analysis at the UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL)." Dong Liang and Jamie Testa also made presentaons.Jerry Frank presented his poster on the "Nutrient Analyical Services Laboratory (NASL)". Michael Gonsior and Andrew Heyes highlighted the new Anthropogenic Contaminants Estuarine Systems (ACES) iniave to monitor and understand emerging contaminants.Sadia AliJerry FrankAndrew Heyes
Tail Winds Fall Update Fisheries sub-project update: o We have completed 15 surveys; 9 commercial pot surveys and 6 recreaon hook & line surveys. o In total we have caught 465 black sea basso We are now completely reliant on ropeless shing gear to retrieve pot strings, thus avoiding whale entanglements. o We have a new survey record black sea bass caught by Kirsten Silva (right) weighing in at 1,505g and 506mm long, blowing the previous record out of the water (880g, 420mm)!Marine Mammal subproject update:o Early October: Caroline Tribble and Jamie Testa along with Cornell University team members Fred Channell and Derek Jaskula were back oshore to retrieve acousc monitoring devices deployed back in April and deploy new devices to monitor for the next six months.Jamie Testa and Caroline Tribbleo While retrieving one of the staons, an unexpected 8-legged visitor was discovered on the anchor weight! It was safely returned to the water aer a short photo-shoot.Kirsten Silva On October 17, 2023 the TailWinds group hosted Todd Sumner and Laurie Jodziewicz from US Wind for an annual workshop. Carys Mitchelmore opened the workshop with highlights from CBL’s researchers and updates on the Chesapeake Global Collaboratory. Each sub-project (Fisheries, Marine Mammals, and Real-me Whales) presented updates and preliminary data. US Wind sta provided updates on the status of MarWin in terms of perming, scheduling, as well as other oshore wind projects in the region. It was a great workshop overall with helpful discussions and renewed enthusiasm for the next phase of the project. Real-me whale buoy (RTWB) update:o With the arrival of fall 2023 comes the third migraon season of baleen whales monitored by the Ocean City RTWB. Daily detecons of baleen whales: n, sei, humpback and North Atlanc right whales connue to be shared publicly on the Robots4Whales website. Fin whales were rst detected at the end of August and Humpback whales were detected at the end of October. Pitch tracks idened as Humpback downsweeps from 31 October 2023.4
Recent Publications and AwardsSamantha Schiano, Geneviève M. Nesslage, Kae Drew, Amy M. Schueller, Ryan J. Woodland, and Michael J Wilberg (2023). Evaluaon of Alternave Harvest Policies for Striped Bass and Their Prey, Atlanc Menhaden Journal Name: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquac Sciences [UMCES Cont. # 6338]Kyle Shertzer, Sco Crosson, Erik Williams, Jie Cao, Rick DeVictor, Chris Dumas, Geneviève Nesslage (2023). Fishery management strategies for Red Snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) in the southeast United States Atlanc: a spaal populaon model to compare approaches [UMCES Cont. # 6339]Hongsheng Bi is part of a new 4-year proposal from NOAA with the Virginia Instute of Marine Science (VIMS) entled “ A whole system restoraon of seagrass, bay scallops, and associated ecosystem funcons in the coastal lagoons of Virginia’s Eastern Shore". Lora Harris and Dong Liang are co-PIs on the large 5-year UMCES NSF award led by Dr. Xin Zhang (AL) “Global Centers Track 1: Global Nitrogen Innovaon Center for Clean Energy and Environment (NICCEE)”.Andrew Heyes received a new 1-year award from the Maryland Department of the Environmental to connue his work in “Monitoring Mercury in Young of the Year Fish in Maryland Freshwaters and Estuaries 2023”.Recent PublicaonsNew Grant Award Congratulaons5
New FacesCaroline Tribble was already a member of TailWinds team but recently completed her RTWB training to support the daily detecons of whales, especially during the busy “whale season”. The RTWB welcomed two new members to the team. Caroline TribbleRebecca Wingate returned to CBL aer a 14 year hiatus. Becca worked for Dave Secor previously and has made a very smooth transion back to the workforce even though she’s no longer poring over otoliths. Becca is working from Swi House or teleworking so feel free to reach her at rwingate@umces.edu to welcome her back.Becca WingateAlthough not a new face around CBL, Jessica McGlinsey started working part-me on November 6th with Carys Mitchelmore on the connued Wave of Plasc curriculum that is being expanded into Charles County middle schools and Anne Arundel high schools. Jessica is currently conducng her PhD with Dr. Chris Rowe on Diamondback terrapin research. On November 12th Tyesha Thomas joined our facilies team coming to us from Medstar St. Mary’s Hospital where her experience working in health care facilies makes her an excellent addion to our CBL community.Please join in welcoming all the new faces to our CBL community. 6
Dr. Hali Kilbourne gave an interview about her research on ocean circulaon and climate change entled 2000 Years of Oceans and Climate to "Science for the Public" on November 14th.hps://www.scienceforthepublic.org/hps://www.scienceforthepublic.org/earth/2000-years-of-oceans-and-climateJeremy Testa receives NOAA AWARD - "FUNDS PROJECT TO HELP ALLEVIATE GLOBAL WARMING"hps://www.umces.edu/news/noaa-award-funds-project-to-help-alleviate-global-warmingThis summer, the university lost long-me friend and Board of Visitors member Don Graf, a supporter of UMCES for more than 30 years. A Captain in the U.S. Navy who served as Deputy Commander, Submarine Force Atlanc Fleet, followed by a long and disnguished career in the power generaon industry, he brought curiosity and rigor to his role, quesoning researchers and geng to know students to support their endeavors. He rarely missed a Science for Cizens lecture at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, and he and his wife Tami supported a number of students directly with thousand-dollar gis to oset expenses to aend meengs and receive professional development training. "Don Graf was a friend and supporter of UMCES for more than 30 years and has been part of the Board of Visitors since its incepon,” said Professor Tom Miller, who worked closely with Graf for many years as director of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. “Don had a curious, but engineering mind. He wanted to understand the problem, evaluate and compare soluons. He was applying his engineering brain right up to the end.”hps://www.bayjournal.com/news/climate_change/warming-waters-bring-new-tropical-visitors-to-the-bay/arcle_68e3a2-7191-11ee-bba7-53d082ea5343.html#:~:text=The%20warming%20has%20helped%20give,cutlasssh%2C%20sheepshead%20and%20mangrove%20snapperDave Secor was quoted in the Bay Journal arcle “Warming waters bring new ‘tropical visitors’ to the Bay”.In The News Click HERE7
Safety Corner: Golden Rules of Chemical Fume Hood Use8www.umces.edu/cbl | 410-326-4281P.O. Box 38 | 146 Williams Street | Solomons, MD 20688-0038The Laboratory Safety Instute’s (www.labsafety.org)Golden Rules of Chemical Fume Hood Use 1. Make sure the fume hood is working. 2. Keep the sash down except when working in the fume hood. 3. Raise the sash only the minimum needed to perform the work. 4. Work six to eight inches inside the plane of the sash. 5. Keep the hood area clear and rear vent unobstructed. 6. Raise equipment o the hooded deck. Use PVC pipe donuts (not wood). 7. Remove ammables and unnecessary stu. 8. Understand the limitaons. 9. Check/inspect operaon at least annually; sash cables every 2-3 years. 10. Wear Protecve Protecon Equipment (PPE). 11. Run cords, cables, and tubing under the air foil. 12. Move arms slowly in and out of the hood.Please do not sck your head, neck and shoulders into the hood. The sash is very heavy and supported on cables that can break. If they do break, the sash will come down hard and is capable of breaking bones and dislocang shoulders.