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Horn Point Scientist Receives Highest University Award |
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BALTIMORE (April 7, 2006) – For her pioneering research on the role of nutrients in ocean and coastal systems, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) researcher Dr. Patricia Glibert was awarded the University System of Maryland’s highest honor, the Regents’ Faculty Award for Excellence. Selected because of her extraordinary commitment to scholarship and her fundamental scientific research, Glibert was among 13 faculty members presented with the Regents’ Faculty Award during the USM Board of Regents’ April meeting. “In a field where it often takes years to collect and analyze data, Dr. Pat Glibert has made sustained and high-impact contributions to science that few can match,” said Donald F. Boesch, UMCES President. |
| “Regents Faculty Award recipients represent the standard to which every person involved in higher education should aspire. Maryland is fortunate to have such an outstanding scholar as Pat.” Glibert’s core expertise is in the mechanisms by which microscopic plants in the sea find, utilize and recycle critical nutrient elements, particularly nitrogen. These processes largely regulate life on Earth, resulting in everything from an oxygen-rich atmosphere to productive fisheries in the ocean. Research on nitrogen in the ocean and coastal seas has taken on an even greater importance in the last 50 years as human-kind has added more nutrients to the Earth largely from agriculture, waste disposal and the burning of fossil fuels. Among the consequences of this nutrient enrichment are very low levels of oxygen found in the Chesapeake Bay each summer and the development of noxious blooms of algae. |
 Glibert Award (L-R): Dr. Michael Roman, UMCES Horn Point Lab Director; Dr. Patricia Glibert, Award Recipient; and Dr. Donald Boesch, UMCES President. |
In addition to her active research program, she has served as a role model to the graduate students she has instructed since she first came to the Center in 1987. Many of the graduate students she has mentored have gone on to successful academic and research careers. The Board of Regents Faculty Awards, established in 1995, publicly recognizes distinguished performance by educators and researchers within the University System. Award categories include: Collaboration, mentoring, public service, teaching, research, scholarship, and creative activity. Recipients were given $1,000 and a plaque of recognition for the honor during a ceremony at the University of Baltimore. “The Regents' Faculty Awards represent the highest honor bestowed by the Regents to recognize exemplary faculty achievement,” said David Nevins, chairman of the Board. Glibert is the fourth UMCES faculty member to be honored with the Regents’ award. Drs. Ed Houde and Diane Stoecker were recognized for their excellence in research in 2001 and 2005, respectively, while Dr. Tom Malone received the award in 2003 for public service. Other 2006 award recipients included: José Felipé Anderson, Robert Lande, and Lenneal Henderson of the University of Baltimore; Jillian Schwedler, Jonathan Kays and Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland, College Park; Eugene Williams, Jerome Miller, and Marie Caravallaro of the Salisbury University; Bruce Jarrell and Angela Brodie of the University of Maryland, Baltimore; Julie Ross and Taryn Bayles of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and Gail Gasparich of Towson University UMCES is the state’s premier higher education institute for environmental science and an international model for coastal studies. Its three laboratories and outreach program – Appalachian Laboratory in western Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in southern Maryland, Horn Point Laboratory on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and the Maryland Sea Grant College – are strategically located to cover critical parts of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. CONTACT: |
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