ESSIC associate professor Sujay Kaushal was featured on a WAMU piece about the impacts of salt application on roadways in the Washington, D.C. region. Kaushal discusses how road salt contaminated drinking water in his neighborhood in 2015. The segment also highlights his recent study on the increasing saltiness of American waterways, which gained media attention from news outlets across the country when it was published in early January.
![Satellite seasonal temperature difference maps indicate how the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and its organisms may respond to the temperature changes. Here, the maps show warmer than average water temperatures from January through March 2020, cooler than average from April through June, near average July through September, and slightly warmer than average October through December. The long-term baseline is from the years 2008-2019.]](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/rv-chesapeake2-150x150.jpg)
