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Research Vessel Kerhin |
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 The Research
Vessel Kerhin,
named in memory of Randall T. Kerhin, is a fully
equipped research vessel doing its part to help fulfill the mission of DNR’s Resource
Assessment Service: to restore, protect, and manage for current and future generations
Maryland’s tidal and non-tidal ecosystems including the
Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries and the coastal bays, by monitoring, assessment, and research.
At 51 feet long and equipped with an array of state-of-the-art electronic navigation aids and sampling gear, the R/V Kerhin
and crew plies the Chesapeake Bay, many of its major tributaries, collecting
water and sediment samples that are analyzed to measure nutrients,
dissolved
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oxygen, algal abundance, toxic contaminants and
other factors that tell us about the ecological
The R/V Kerhin and crew is also active in mapping and evaluating the geological features of Maryland’s estuaries and the inner continental shelf off Ocean City. The R/V Kerhin also assists MGS scientists in studies related to the Ocean City Beach replenishment Project and various geological investigations on Maryland’s inner continental shelf. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Maryland, and the Naval Research Laboratory regularly charter the R/V Kerhin for research cruises.
For more information on the R/V Kerhin,
please contact Captain Rick Younger |
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health of these bodies of
water. The R/V Kerhin also assists
DNR’s 