Throughout our 2009 Annual Report, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science shows how technological advances are helping improve the way we discover and manage the natural world.
A team of researchers including UMCES-IMET scientist Dr. Allen Place has discovered that a microbe commonly found in the Chesapeake Bay emits a poison not just to protect itself but to stun and immobilize the prey it plans to eat.
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Director Margaret Palmer believes there's a better way to mine for coal than blowing the tops off mountains, and shares what she knows with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report.
Dr. Harvey teamed-up with Dr. Mike Sigler to highlight the 2009 fieldwork season of the BEST-BSIERP Bering Sea Project, the most comprehensive investigation of the Bering Sea ecosystem to date.
The UMCES Horn Point Laboratory oyster hatchery produced nearly 750 million oyster spat for Chesapeake Bay restoration in 2009, the most ever grown in one year at the laboratory’s Eastern Shore facility.
