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Aquarium & Students Help Plant Marshland In Harbor
BALTIMORE (WJZ) ? The National Aquarium in Baltimore knows what makes marine life happy. Now it takes that knowledge beyond its own walls.
Suzanne Collins reports the aquarium is now helping fish in the Inner Harbor survive.
It looks like a big Brillo pad with holes drilled through. Mulch is spread on top of that material on a floating marshland being launched by the National Aquarium. Local students insert plants in the holes.
"So I think this is a really good opportunity to help make it better. I really think it's a cool idea, something cool I can say I've done for the Chesapeake Bay," said Chanel Moore, Western High School student.
The plants will send roots down three feet into the water. Those will filter polluting runoff and create a habitat for small sea life. Larger fish will congregate below.
"Ours is made of a mesh spun from recycled soda bottles and what this material does is it has a lot of spaces inside of it," said David Nemerson, National Aquarium.
BALTIMORE - An island is being built in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
When the small piece of manmade land is fully functional the water in the Inner Harbor will be cleaner and healthier.
"The islands are made to sit in the water at the right depth so that the wetland plants that are put on there are irrigated from the moment that they're put in the water. And the matrix material is very porous and provides a lot of surface area for microbes which will process nutrients," explains Ted Gattino.
COLLEGE PARK, Md.—The Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program (MIPS), an initiative of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) at the University of Maryland, has awarded $3.3 million to 16 teams of Maryland companies and faculty developing commercially promising technology products, program officials announce today.
All funding goes to the faculty members conducting the research and development on company products.
"Programs such as MIPS are critical to our 21st century technology economy in Maryland," says Governor Martin O'Malley. "Blockbuster companies in Maryland like MedImmune, Martek, and Hughes Network Systems have leveraged MIPS to create thousands of jobs in the region, generate $19.5 billion in revenue and develop products that enhance, protect and save lives."
Projects for this round of funding include floating wetlands to clean the Chesapeake Bay, bolts that change color as they are tightened, faster Internet-via-satellite upstream, wireless sensors for monitoring home energy use, bioremediation for restaurant oil, and a backup mass-emergency electrical system. Treatments, vaccines or tests for anthrax, malaria, influenza, staph infections and infertility are also included.
On July 12, 2010 Bluewing Environmental Solutions & Technologies LLC was informed that we have been selected to receive a Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) award for our "Floating Treatment Wetlands in CAFO Waste Lagoons" project.
This grant award to have local research done on the nutrient removal effectiveness of our Floating Treatment Wetlands on agricultural wastes will begin 8/1/10 and runs for 18 months until the end of 2011.
The forum was organized by the Maryland-Asia Environmental Partnership (MD-AEP) and Talbot County's Office of Economic Development, sponsored by I.M. Systems Group as part of MD-AEP's Environmental Leadership Series.
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