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NOAA award funds project to help alleviate global warming
November 16, 2023
The $2M award will support an exploration of how wastewater treatment plants could help oceans mitigate climate change.

Gray whales die-offs driven by food supply swings as a result of Arctic changing conditions
October 12, 2023
A long-term Arctic biological data set maintained by a University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) faculty member has been proven instrumental in determining the cause of a continuing series of die-offs of eastern Pacific gray whales.

UMCES’ Chesapeake Biological Laboratory receives transformative gift to study contaminated waterways
August 8, 2023
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s (UMCES) Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) announces a $1 million gift from Brian Hochheimer and Marjorie Wax to establish the Anthropogenic Changes in Estuarine Systems (ACES) Initiative, a five-year project to study chemicals in waterways that could be having harmful impacts on environmental and human health.

JES Avanti Foundation supports UMCES’ DolphinWatch efforts
July 11, 2023
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Chesapeake Biological Laboratory announces its first sponsorship donation from the JES Avanti Foundation to support its Chesapeake DolphinWatch program.

Ryan Woodland selected by UMCES graduate students as outstanding faculty mentor
May 22, 2023
Associate Professor Ryan Woodland, an ecologist whose research focuses on food web ecology, has been selected by the graduate student body at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science to receive the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award for his dedication to both science and his students.

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