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University of Delaware helped find that crab pots abandoned beneath the surface of the water posed a problem for the Delaware Inland Bays.

During the coronavirus pandemic, some Delawareans have become food entrepreneurs—cooking, baking and opening businesses from home— turning to food safety programs from UD’s Cooperative Extension for help.

Algae produce half of the oxygen in earth’s atmosphere and some forms of algae are used in industrial applications — such as producing high omega-3 fatty acids for baby formula or being used for biofuels — so there are many reasons a better understanding of algae could be beneficial. There is another side to algae, however, as some species can create harmful algal blooms (HABs), and those have been the focus of the research of University of Delaware’s Kathryn Coyne.

In 2019, researchers from the University of Delaware’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources were awarded a grant from the NRCS to examine how cover crop mixes — the use of more than one seed type, and termination timing of the cover crop — might affect availability and uptake of nutrients needed by agronomic crops that follow in the spring. The study examines how cover crops affect Delaware’s main production crops — corn and soybeans.