President Don Boesch gave his last President’s Award for Excellence in Application of Science, an honor he first bestowed in 1999, to Cat Stylinski, senior agent at Appalachian Laboratory.
Biological and physical oceanography students embarked on two research cruises on the Rachel Carson to get a new perspective from their class lectures.
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.