Blue Catfish in the Chesapeake are Gobbling Up Everything in It trcp.org/2024/04/22/blu…

Happy to announce that a recent our paper has been selected as a top cited paper in 2022–2023 in Animal Conservation!

A Hudson cornucopia! The Hudson -although not as productive as the Chesapeake - hosts a robust assortment of anadromous types. Shad, striped bass and sturgeon in the same net. Good luck catching that diversity elsewhere.

Jim Uphoff’s over 30 year commitment to researching and conserving MD’s striped bass. Impressive!

The Chesapeake Bay is a famed spawning ground for Atlantic #stripedbass. But changeable—and changing—conditions are likely contributing to the species’ troubles. 🐟 cbf.org/blogs/save-the…

🐋 There’s been a lot of debate over the impacts of offshore wind on whales and other marine mammals. Get the facts from #WHOI biologist Mark Baumgartner in the latest fact-checker from Oceanus Magazine: go.whoi.edu/windwhales 📸 by Nicholas Doherty via Unsplash

Congrats to TailWinds alum Lauren Rodriguez making cetacean eDNA hay in the Mediteray. Comparing the efficiency of DNA extraction protocols across a multinational environmental DNA initiative preprints.arphahub.com/article/128447/

Congratulations on securing funding for this exciting new project. Who knows where leads the next diaspora.

Chesapeake Biological Lab in Solomons, Md is looking to hire a new director! CBL is the oldest publicly supported marine laboratory on the East Coast and a national leader in fisheries, estuarine ecology, environmental chemistry & toxicology! Apply today! umces.peopleadmin.com/postings/1875

Reason we do what we do.

Fish Health Reminder: Mycobacteriosis in Striped Bass Read the full fact sheet: bit.ly/4cN34bH

📢 Calling all early career scientists at US academic institutions! Are you presenting at #ICESASC2024 in Gateshead? Travel funding has been made available by U.S. National Science Foundation Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) & UMCES 🔔 Deadline: 17 July ⏩ For more info on how to apply: bit.ly/3W93qUh

It is #eDNA #CitizenScience fieldwork season! 🥳 Lauren Rodriguez sampling on the #Azores with CW Azores , Eleonora Barbaccia & Tethys in the #Med, Belen Ovide with North Sailing in #Iceland

📢 Calling all early career scientists at US academic institutions! Are you presenting at #ICESASC24 in Gateshead? Travel funding has been made available by U.S. National Science Foundation Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) & UMCES 🔔 Deadline: 17 July ⏩ For more info on how to apply: bit.ly/3W93qUh

Best souvenir ever! Big supply of “Kyoto University President’s Special Curry” thanks to my sister in law. Very thoughtful.

Day on the Bay tending our Mid-Chesapeake telemetry array. Hot and breezy in front of TS Debbie

Six for six receivers popped up on our mid Chesapeake array including several Ocean Tracking Network loaners

Dinner is served.

Mark your fall calendars now for an UMCES #OpenHouse near you! The Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in #Solomons will hold its annual open house on Saturday, Sept. 7, and the Horn Point Laboratory in #Cambridge will open its doors Saturday Oct. 12: loom.ly/l02c5jo

Tried and true tradition and cure for jet lag when arriving in the UK - the SUNDAY ROAST. Energized for tomorrow’s ICES ASC meeting