It’s Official: Oysters Making Historic Comeback
Oysters are officially back in the Chesapeake, according to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science at Cambridge and the state Department of Natural Resources. A new stock assessment shows Maryland’s oyster population has more than tripled since 2005, rising from 2.4 billion to 7.6 billion, a 217 percent increase. In what’s becoming one of the Bay’s greatest ... [Continue Story]
Ecosystem Highlights
Cambridge Seminar Explains Living Shorelines as Flood-Protection Project Inches Forward
Scientists and engineers used a public seminar this week to explain how living shorelines work and how decades of local research are informing a ... [Continue Story]
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