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Center for Environmental Science

2025 CERF Achievement Award for Organizational Coastal Stewardship

1oo Stories Inside UMCES We’re proud to share that the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science has been awarded the 2025 CERF Achievement Award for Organizational Coastal Stewardship. Presented by the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, this honor recognizes UMCES’s 100-year legacy of advancing science, education, and public engagement in support of coastal and estuarine […]

Harnessing Engineering Innovation to Protect Maryland’s Oysters…

1oo Stories Inside UMCES In celebration of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s (UMCES) centennial, the story of Michael Kalinowski’s research on oyster aquaculture reflects the intersection of engineering innovation and marine science. A third-year PhD student at UMCES, Kalinowski is leveraging his industrial engineering background to solve a growing environmental challenge: the […]

Meet the Rachel Carson

1oo Stories Inside UMCES Flagship of UMCES’ research fleet, the Rachel Carson makes Chesapeake Bay science happen on the water. Read More Watch Video

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The New Generation of Leaders

Throughout its history, UMCES has graduated hundreds of new environmental leaders. Today’s UMCES alumni are able and eager to take on the mounting challenges facing our natural world. Here’s just one example of an UMCES alum making a difference.

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The Bay Gets a Grade

In 2007, UMCES Integration and Application Network released the first Chesapeake Bay Report Card. Take a look at how far we’ve come.

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No One Anticipated This

Longtime water quality monitoring in the Chesapeake Bay watershed revealed unintended benefits of the Clean Air Act of 1990.

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Meet the Rachel Carson

Flagship of UMCES’ research fleet, the Rachel Carson makes Chesapeake Bay science happen on the water.

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A Win-Win Partnership

The need to dispose of Baltimore ship channel dredge material created an unprecedented partnership opportunity for a 20+ year study on ecosystem restoration on the Chesapeake Bay’s Poplar Island.

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A Visionary Founder

Who was Reginald Truitt, founder of what would become UMCES? “IN THE SUMMER OF 1919, a brand new graduate student carried a borrowed microscope to a creek north of Solomons Island, Maryland, a knob of land near the meeting point of the Patuxent River and the Chesapeake Bay. In a cramped fisherman’s shack, he set up a makeshift laboratory, installed his microscope, and began studying oyster biology.”

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