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August 2022 Edition of the Official Newsletter of the
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Tenure and Promotion for SANS Faculty
Interns Present at Summer Research Symposium
MPT to feature NOAA LMRCSC on HBCU Week Special
Summer Experiences for NOAA LMRCSC Students
Chemistry Lab Hosts Summer Programs
Global Food Security Summit Set for Sept. 12-14
Small Farm Conference planning is underway!
VIDEO: WMDT Visits Ag Showcase at UMES
Photo Gallery: Ag Showcase at UMES
Ag & Environmental Law Conference Set for Oct. 28
Save The Date: 4-H STEM Festival, November 12
UMES Land-grant Scholarship Program

Congratulations to SANS faculty recently promoted or who have achieved tenure

Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences

Pictured above from top to bottom, left to right, are:

Dr. Sadanand Dhekney has been promoted to professor.
Dr. Naveen Kumar Dixit has received tenure and promotion to associate professor.
Dr. Byungrok Min has been promoted to professor.
Dr. Caleb Nindo has received tenure and promotion to professor.
Dr. Jennifer Timmons has received tenure and promotion to associate professor.
Dr. Stephan Tubene has been promoted to professor.

Department of Natural Sciences

Dr. Ahmed Elnabawi has received tenure.

Summer interns at UMES present research at end-of-program symposium

NOAA LMRCSC Research Experience for Undergraduates in Marine and Estuarine Sciences interns (pictured at top), from left, are: Konnor Collins, Samantha Symonette, Stephanie Casey, Zak Bhe, Camille Cube, Kayla Ellerbe, Katie Janzen, Sonya Whitaker, Renee Thompson, Ella Whitney, Mikaela Blackwood, Anijha Baker and Jocelyn Lucente.

Students participating in the National Science Foundation Geosciences Bridge Program (above left), from left, are: Xavier Harrell (FAMU), Daryl Bullock (UMES), Eymani Barias (FAMU), Myah Bowie (UMES), Keon Adams (CCBC), Chaney Galloway (FAMU), Daja Ajhar (SSU), Moses Nwakwuo (UMES), Leianna Jones (UMES), Kevin Armstrong II (UMES), Kayla Winn (UMES), and Anazia Pharrams (FAMU).

NSF Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation summer undergraduate interns at UMES (above right), from left, are: Rufai Ogunmoyera, Ludan Osman, Emma Jones, Fabiola Beauvoir, and Oluwatomisin Salami.

NOAA LMRCSC at UMES featured on Maryland Public Television's HBCU Week Special Sept. 9

At top: MPT "State Circle" Correspondent Charles Robinson (center) talks to NOAA LMRCSC graduate students (from left) Kasondra Rubalcava and Kaitlynn Wade.

Above left: MPT videographer Mike Estribdilo gets footage of Jasmin Smalls (pictured) and Tahirah Johnson in Dr. Salina Parveen's lab.

Above right: NOAA LMRCSC Director Dr. Paulinus Chigbu (left) is interveiwed by MPT State Circle Correspondent Charles Robinson.

The NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center at UMES will be featured on Maryland Public Television's third annual HBCU Week special September 5-11. MPT "State Circle" Correspondent Charles Robinson visited campus to talk to Dr. Paulinus Chigbu, director of the NOAA LMRCSC at UMES, and student researchers. Click the top image or HERE to visit MPT's HBCU Week program schedule.

Tune in Friday, September 9, at 7 p.m. to watch UMES on the State Circle Special: Innovative Programs at Maryland's HBCUs.

Students supported by NOAA LMRCSC gained valuable hands-on experiences this summer

This is what summer looks like for students supported by the
NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center!

Graduate students participated in summer internships at NOAA Laboratories across the U.S. Undergraduate student internships took place at other universities, along with NOAA Laboratories.
Photos courtesy of NOAA LMRCSC at UMES.

Click HERE to view more exciting photos!

UMES chemistry lab hosts 2022
summer internship programs

At top: Chemistry professor Victoria Volkis is pictured with students in four programs working in her lab this summer. Pictured from left (standing) are: Breann Green (graduate, MEES, UMES), Kpardeh Boayue (undergrad, agribusiness, UMCP), Ryan More (undergrad, chemistry, UMES), Andy VanKirk (undergrad, environmental science, UMBC), Raykaela Johnson (undergrad, biology), Keith Bratley (MS chemistry, UMES), A.J. Whitter (undergrad, education, DePaul), Anijha Baker, (undergrad, plant science, Fort Valley State University), Riham Alhas (graduate, agriculture, UMES), Aseel Albsher (senior, Washington High School), (kneeling) Kanaya Streeter (undergrad, pre-med, UMES) and Devki Shah (undergrad, microbiology, UMCP).

UMES chemistry professor Victoria Volkis’ lab was a whirlwind of activity this summer, playing host to participants from four programs-the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Education and Workforce Development (EWD) Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates (REEU), the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Marine and Estuarine Sciences, the Dreyfus Foundation and Project SEED.

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Center of Excellence for Global Food Security and Defense at UMES

Since its creation in 2020, the Center of Excellence for Global Food Security and Defense has forged concerted efforts to address food security and defense challenges encountered in four target sub-regional clusters including West/Central Africa, East/Southern Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.

In addition to supplying the U.S. with a globally educated workforce, the center’s areas of work include agricultural development, agricultural disaster recovery, animal and plant pests and diseases, and global food security and defense.

The center's partners include the nineteen 1890 land-grant universities, the 1890 Universities Foundation and many international public and private sector partners who will soon be meeting September 12-14 for the Global Food Security Summit in Atlanta.

Pictured above, the CEGFSD promoted the Quinoa value chain in Guyana during a May visit.

Click on the image above or HERE to visit the CEGFSD website.
View the latest newsletter HERE.

Small Farm Conference planning is underway!

SAVE THE DATE | November 4-5, 2022

The goal of UMES Extension's Small Farm Conference is to equip farmers and landowners in Maryland and along the Delmarva Peninsula with tools and strategies to increase farm profitability and promote farm sustainability. At the same time, the event is a tool to revise and expand program and outreach activities to address individual as well as community needs, emerging problems and concerns of target groups, including limited-resource, new and beginning, and underserved farmers.

Visit the Small Farm Conf. site HERE! Registration opens Sept. 1

Click the top image or HERE for a video from 47 ABC's visit to the second annual UMES Ag Showcase. Representatives from the event's partners, pictured above, are: (Top) Dr. Jurgen Schwarz, chair of UMES' Department of Agriculture, Food and Resources Sciences; (Above left) Adam Smith, crop advisor with Simplot Grower Solutions; and (Above right) Aaron Boggs, precision agriculture manager with Atlantic Tractor.

Latest in agronomy on display at
UMES Ag Showcase

Top left: Participants load tour wagons to learn about the strip-till (seed planted on top of liquid fertilizer in the ground) and non strip-till (planted with a dry fertilizer spread on top) trials.
Top right: Mitch Bigelow of Innvictis Seed Solutions talks about corn varieties in the field trials.
Above left: Jim Vizzard, owner of Mid-Atlantic Seeds, talks about the 8108 variety.
Above right: Chris Bach of Atlantic Tractor LLC discusses the latest in agricultural equipment with an Ag Showcase attendee.

The second annual Ag Showcase was a success, with over 100 participants coming out to the UMES Research, Extension and Teaching Farm on Stewart Neck Road, just south of the UMES campus.

It was a great day for agricultural partners UMES Extension, Simplot Grower Solutions and Atlantic Tractor LLC to come together to bring research to farmers and stakeholders to help them increase yields and profit margins. A recurring comment throughout the event was, “We’re all in one family,” everyone working together with the goal of helping farmers find what works best for their operations.

This year’s event focused on corn variety trials, agronomy and the latest in equipment and agricultural practices. Great care was taken when designing the experiments and laying out the field trials. Collaborative work began months before the event.

Thanks to our partners Simplot and Atlantic Tractor and our sponsors Mountaire Farms, Mid-Atlantic Seeds, BigYield.us and AgroLiquid for making the event possible. We also extend a shout-out to our vendors and exhibitors.

If you couldn't make it this year, make a plan to join us at next year’s Ag Showcase!

Click HERE for the Ag Showcase Photo Gallery! Todd Dudek, UMES Ag Communications

Summer 2022 edition

The NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center trains and graduates students from underrepresented communities in marine science for careers in research, management, and public policy that support the sustainable harvest and conservation of our nation's living marine resources. With its partner institutions, the LMRCSC conducts research on marine and estuarine systems congruent with the interests of NOAA Fisheries. The Center is supported by the NOAA Education Partnership Program with Minority-Serving Institutions.

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SANS in the News

Farm bus tour highlights sustainable ag practices
The Delmarva Farmer, August 12, 2022

UMES Extension's Farm Bus Tour hitting road to Va.
Delmarva Now, August 12, 2022

Agriculture Showcase event exposes farmers to new technology, scientific research
WMDT 47 abc, August 10, 2022

UMES Extension restarts specialty farm educational bus tours
Bay to Bay News, (Crisfield-Somerset County Times), August 4, 2022

New Research Publications

Rosales D, Ellett A, Jacobs J, Ozbay G, Parveen S, Pitula J. July 2022. Investigating the Relationship between Nitrate, Total Dissolved Nitrogen, and Phosphate with Abundance of Pathogenic Vibrios and Harmful Algal Blooms in Rehoboth Bay, Delaware. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 88(14). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00356-22

Gurung DP, Chen N, Waguespack Y, Ishaque A, Chigbu P. July 2022. Assessment of the Spatial and Temporal Variabilities of Phosphorus Sorption Index of the Sediments in the Maryland Coast Bays. J Coast Res 38(4):766-775. https://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-20-00170.1

Mou L, Niu Q, Xia M. June 2022. The roles of wind and baroclinic processes in cross-isobath water exchange within the Bohai Sea. Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2022.107944

Hall S, Stotts S, Haaf L. May 2022. Influence of Climate and Coastal Flooding on Eastern Red Cedar Growth along a Marsh-Forest Ecotone. Forests (13(6):862. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13060862

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