 Krebs received his first Emmy Award for a series of stories he did entitled “Winter on the Chesapeake Bay.” These stories showed the lives of people who work on the Chesapeake Bay, particularly those of oyster farmers, a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker crew clearing the ship channel during one particularly cold winter, and an older man who had been building wooden boats by hand for many years.Another Emmy was for a horrific gasoline tanker crash on I-270 and the Capital Beltway.Joe Krebs has received numerous awards including the Maryland Bar Association Gavel Award.