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.
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.