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Environment

Chesapeake waters are warming, study finds, posing challenges to healing bay

The Chesapeake Bay's waters are warming, in some places rising more rapidly even than the region's air temperatures, a new University of Maryland study finds. If unchecked, scientists say, the trend could complicate costly, long-running efforts to restore the ailing estuary, worsening fish-suffocating dead zones over time and even altering the food web on which the bay's fish and crabs depend.

Chesapeake waters are warming, study finds, posing challenges to healing bay




Health

New Horizons releases images of Pluto's surface, moon

The New Horizons spacecraft's first close-ups of Pluto show 11,000-foot mountains of water ice, a relatively thin crust of methane and nitrogen ice, and an unexpected lack of craters, evidence that the planet has more internal geological activity than scientists predicted.

New Horizons releases images of Pluto's surface, moon









Obituaries

Lawrence A. Hardie, Hopkins geology professor

Lawrence Alexander Hardie, a retired Johns Hopkins University geology professor who successfully challenged an assumption about ocean salinity, died of Alzheimer's disease complications Dec. 17 at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in California. The former Pasadena and Forest Park resident was 80.

Lawrence A. Hardie, Hopkins geology professor

Environment

Cruise mapping wind prospects off Maryland

The crew of the Scarlett Isabella has been working almost nonstop since late June to map a 94-nautical-square-mile expanse of sea floor off Maryland's coast, gathering data that could help in placing up to 40 huge wind turbines there to generate power.

Cruise mapping wind prospects off Maryland














Obituaries

John M. Wilson, geologist, dies

John Mackenzie Wilson, who mapped the Eastern Shore for the Maryland Geological Survey, died of a lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, July 3 at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Fells Point resident was 57.

John M. Wilson, geologist, dies

















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