CBL Research Professor Dr. Lisa Wainger is examining both the environmental and economic costs and benefits of fighting one of the southern Louisiana waterways’ most troublesome invasive species: water hyacinth.
Each winter since 1988, CBL has worked with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences to conduct a dredge survey that estimates the total number of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay.
CBL Assistant Professor Dr. Laura Lapham is examining the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane in the Baltic Sea, Chesapeake Bay, and Arctic lakes.
CBL Assistant Professor Dr. Jeremy Testa is trying to understand the effects big storms have on the behavior and health of shallow bodies of water, focusing on Maryland’s Chincoteague Bay.
