Rouse-Bottom Foundation Fellowship

"Private support to the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve-Virginia (CBNERR-VA) provides an annual fellowship to a student engaged in research and collection of long-term ecological data within the Research Reserve system. These funds have supported studies on finfish communities in intertidal marshes, the effects of reed grass (Phragmites australis) on plant communities in tidal fresh-water marshes, and sub-lethal effects of low dissolved oxygen and elevated carbon dioxide on blue crabs. Currently, M.S. student Robert Carroll is investigating the habitat quality of fringing marshes versus rock rip-rap shorelines. With support like this, our students have opportunities that would otherwise not be available to them."

--Dr. William Reay, CBNERR-VA Director