Appalachian Laboratory researcher Dr. Edward Gates has been honored by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science with its President's Award for Science Application.
UMCES is partnering with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and several leading marine research institutions to launch the Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region.
Graduate student Ryan Utz and his mentor Dr. Bob Hilderbrand from the UMCES Appalachian Laboratory have established thresholds for determining when specific types of development will likely have detrimental impacts.
In the first comprehensive global analysis of seagrass meadows, an international team of scientists warns that accelerating losses of seagrasses across the globe threaten the immediate health and long-term sustainability of coastal ecosystems.
