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Week of July 1, 2013

News from Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses

(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science - Horn Point Laboratory, June - July 2013)

- The market is located in front of Cole Field House, on the University of Maryland, College Park campus, and is open on Wednesdays from 11am - 3pm.

- How many jellyfish are in the Chesapeake Bay this year? The JellyCam, located on the Horn Point Laboratory pier on the Choptank River in Cambridge, Maryland, provides a view of the water surface in order to show local jellyfish conditions.  Researchers are currently assessing the usefulness of cameras like this one for monitoring sea nettle populations in Chesapeake Bay.  Visual counting has been used to monitor the sea nettle population in Chesapeake Bay for decades, but automating the process by using cameras like this one may allow for more frequent, simultaneous sampling of multiple locations in order to understand new aspects of the sea nettle population. (Horn Point Laboratory - JellyCam, July 2013)

State of Maryland News

- In addition to providing food that's fresh and nutritional, buying from local farms promotes cleaner air and water and reduces our carbon footprint on the planet. In Maryland, if every household purchased just $12 worth of farm products for eight weeks (basically the summer season), over $200 million would be put back into the pockets of our farmers. 

(By Jon Meoli, The Baltimore Sun, 6/26/13)

(By David Strum, The Baltimore Sun, 6/26/13)

National and International News

(By Lauren McCauley, CommonDreams.org, 7/1/13)

(By Andrea Germanos, CommonDreams.org, 6/29/13)

(By R. P Siegel, TriplePundit.com, 6/28/13)

(By David Roberts, Grist.org, 6/28/13)

(By Damian Carrington, The [UK] Guardian - Environment Blog, 6/28/13)

(By Emily Badger, The Atlantic Cities, 6/27/13)

(By The Associated Press as reported by The Washington Post, 6/27/13)

(By Sarah Goodyear, The Atlantic Cities, 6/26/13)