From the National Park Service: During the summer of 2018, four students from the University of Mary Washington participated in a field school to document two cultural landscapes at Prince William Forest Park: Cabin Camp 4 and Cabin Camp 2. The field school was coordinated by Michael Spencer, Associate Professor & Director of the Center for […]
From Hood College Office of Marketing and Communications FREDERICK, Maryland—Hood College has been accepted as a new member of the Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystems Unit (CHWA CESU). Hood is a non-federal member, and this partnership enables Hood faculty to enter into cooperative agreements with federal members of the unit, such as the National Park Service, […]
By: Dan Filer, CHWA CESU NPS Research Coordinator Growth in Funding We had another successful fall and winter in the Chesapeake Watershed CESU Research Network. In the National Park Service (NPS) alone, one of our eleven federal partners, the network saw the creation of 74 new projects/agreements, a 33% increase over the number executed in […]
By Dan Filer, NPS CHWA CESU Research Coordinator The Archeology Program at the Washington Office of the National Park Service (NPS) worked with the University of Maryland’s School of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures to translate eleven lesson plans into Spanish through a CHWA CESU agreement from August through December, 2018. The Translation and Interpretation […]
By Charmaine Dahlenburg, National Aquarium, and Michael Wright, USN Coastal sand dunes are formed by the action of sea and wind. Materials carried by rivers is deposited with the help of the sea along the coastline forming sand dunes. These dunes protect the land by acting as a natural barrier to salt water intrusion and […]
Tifton, Georgia, March 30-April 2 The Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds (ICRW) brings together watershed scientists, stakeholders, and managers to share scientific advances and management strategies to sustain the country’s water resources. The Conference highlights interdisciplinary research and synthesis on topics associated with watershed resilience, with a focus on solutions that integrate interacting […]
By Victoria M. Indivero (tori@psu.edu) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — How Penn State faculty members and researchers can take advantage of a national consortium with federal agencies through the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Network will be the focus of a meeting hosted by the Institutes of Energy and the Environment at 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 14, […]
A Virginia Tech project designed to study white-nose syndrome in northern long-eared bats was featured in a recent Washington Post article. The project, funded through the Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Units Network (CESU), aims to improve researchers’ understanding of how bats at Marine Corps Base Quantico and Rock Creek Park have survived the disease, when as […]
New Chesapeake Watershed CESU partner Ohio University will host an on-campus CESU information session at the Athens Campus for University faculty and staff on Wednesday, August 8. CHWA CESU Research Coordinator Dan Filer will give a presentation on federal funding trends and the benefits of CESU membership, followed by a Q&A session and individual meetings […]
The Chesapeake Watershed (CHWA) Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU) recently launched a Twitter account: @CesuChwa. Unit staff will tweet links to Requests for Statements of Interest (RSOIs), updates on CESU research projects, and CESU-related news from our partners. With the new Twitter account, the CHWA CESU joins other CESUs in the CESU National Network that use […]
