Paleoecology

known for her work on the pre- and post-Colonial ecology of the Chesapeake Bay & helped scientists and geographers better understand how the clearing of forests surrounding the bay in the 18th century impacted the ecosystem; did a 3-year study to map the vegetation of Maryland and compare the species distributions to geology/soils distributions that was was published in Ecological Monographs; pieced together evidence of the relationships between failing fisheries, river sediment, the sudden disappearance of underwater grasses, and a bay with a serious chemical imbalance; with her colleagues developed an apparatus to determine the fall velocity of ragweed, oak, willow, hickory, and chestnut pollen grains: with Sherri Cooper used diatoms to prove that agriculture increases anoxia (a severe loss of oxygen);

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Category:
Reclamation of the Chesapeake Bay

Completion Status:
yes

Patent Number:
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Co-Inventor:
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