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Nutrient Loading: Too Much of a Good Thing
October 12, 2015
CBL Professor Dr. Walter Boynton is directing an expansive study on the movement and impact of nutrients in the Chesapeake Bay and tributary rivers.

Going “In-Seine”: Counting Fish, Predicting Patterns
October 12, 2015
Since 1999, CBL Professor David Secor and his research team have conducted seine surveys off of the CBL research pier to measure seasonal variations in fish abundance and diversity in the Patuxent River.

White House recognizes innovations in nutrient pollution detection led by UMCES-based Alliance for Coastal Technologies
October 7, 2015
This week, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recognized national efforts and innovations in environmental technologies, including the Alliance for Coastal Technologies’ (ACT) Nutrient Sensor Challenge based at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Unknown Object

The secret lives of fish revealed by the digital age
June 3, 2015
"Imagine the clandestine lives of marine fishes,” begins “Migration Ecology of Marine Fishes,” a new book by Dr. David Secor, one of the most respected voices in marine fish migration studies. Their movements, social interactions, and favorite spots are all obscured beneath the surface. However, an explosion of technological advances in data gathering and analysis has allowed fisheries scientists to observe the secret lives of fish in a whole new way.

UMCES scientists win Best Paper of the Year award from American Fisheries Society
June 1, 2015
UMCES' Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) alumnus Adam Peer and CBL Director Dr. Tom Miller were recipients of the Best Paper of the Year 2014 awarded by the American Fisheries Society for its journal North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

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