WASHINGTON, DC: Rep. Andy Harris, M.D. (MD-01) announced the award of a $500,000 federal grant to improve the protection of coastal communities and ecosystems associated with bays and estuaries, including the Chesapeake Bay. The funds were awarded by the National Science Foundation to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences in Cambridge, Dorchester County.
According to the National Science Foundation, “the goal is to translate research results into specific recommendations for developing coastal resiliency solutions and seek stakeholders’ feedback to orient academic research towards addressing pressing concerns faced by urban and rural communities living around the Nation’s estuaries and bays.” Specifically, use of the funding will include study of the impact of storms and sea level rise, and the effectiveness of marshes, oyster reefs, and sand dunes.
Rep. Andy Harris made the following statement:
“I applaud the investment of these federal funds to improve the protection of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and our rural communities on the Eastern Shore. This grant will help translate research into practical applications that benefit our rural communities. As a member of the Committee on Appropriations, I will continue to help protect the Bay and our rural way of life on the Eastern Shore.”
5 comments:
giving half a million dollars to some university of maryland pencil pushing desk jockies, so that they can brain storm some theortical ideas on how to "save the bay" seems like a waste of half a million dollars.
Exactly - just money to keep it going. It must be an Election year.
Throwing good money to a wasted cause!
Billions already spent and no solution because it can't be solved due to
over population, waste water pollution, development, and agricultural runoff in the Chesapeake bay watershed. The problem will never be fixed. Dead zones over half of the bay right now. Money better spent on tax relief!
Why not spend the half million on the Conowingo problem the last study confirmed?
DUH.
Dredge the pond, dummy!
What happened to the 10 mil for the OC inlet fishing boats still having problems coming in
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