News

Graduate students take lessons to Bay for plankton research cruise
May 9, 2017
Biological and physical oceanography students embarked on two research cruises on the Rachel Carson to get a new perspective from their class lectures.

Chesapeake Bay Report Card shows steady recovery
May 8, 2017
The overall health of Chesapeake Bay improved in 2016, a positive sign that recovery efforts are working. The largest estuary in the nation scored a C grade (54%) in the 2016 report card, one of the highest scores calculated by UMCES scientists.

UMCES scientists help track porpoises to measure impact of offshore wind farms
May 5, 2017
UMCES joined scientists from Cornell University and Duke University to studyhow marine mammals like porpoises, whales, and dolphins may be affected by the construction of wind farms off the coast of Maryland.

IMET hosts inaugural Open House
May 2, 2017
The Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology held its first Open House to welcome the community to meet its scientists, and discover how work being done in Baltimore is helping to change the world.

Alumni Profile: Aimee Hoover
May 1, 2017
Aimee Hoover earned her master's degree, specializing in fisheries science, in spring 2017. Working under her adviser Helen Bailey, at Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, she conducted her thesis on the movement and dispersal of leatherback turtles from nesting beaches in Costa Rica considering implications for management and conservation.

Pages