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Law students and recent graduates were invited to contribute research on issues facing coastal communities for a special edition of the Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal focused on Chesapeake Rising: Innovative Law and Policy Solutions for Climate Adaptation in Coastal Communities.
We selected six law students and early career professionals to curate their work and present their research at the Chesapeake Rising symposium. After the symposium, two additional researchers were invited to write law review articles related to coastal resiliency in the Chesapeake Bay.
What's Next?
These eight researchers submitted first drafts of their law review articles September 1, 2025. A peer-review committee is now anonymously reviewing the journal articles before their publication in this special edition of the Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal.
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
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Restoration Takes Root: Living Shorelines for Changing Coasts
