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2011 annual report highlights graduate education in preparing environmental leaders

Submitted by Amy Pelsinsky on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 12:00am
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At the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, our celebrated faculty join aspiring graduate students to engage in cutting-edge research focused on our most valuable assets-–the environment and its natural resources. We hope to address the great environmental challenges of the 21st century by producing highly capable scientists who will serve as tomorrow’s scientific leaders.

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Annual report: Graduate education prepares tomorrow's scientists

This is the only moment we will ever have to restore the Bay

Submitted by Amy Pelsinsky on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 12:00am

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is developing a strategy to ensure that the Bay restor

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Commentary: This is the only moment we will ever have to restore the Bay 

Time of Year Important in Projections of Climate Change Effects on Ecosystems

Submitted by Amy Pelsinsky on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 2:54pm
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Does it matter whether long periods of hot weather, such as last year's heat wave that gripped the U.S. Midwest, happen in June or July, August or September? Scientists studying the subtle effects of heat waves and droughts say that when such events happen makes a big difference.

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Climate change effects on ecosystems: It's all in the timing

New national think tank poises Maryland as leader in finding environmental solutions

Submitted by Amy Pelsinsky on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 4:55pm

Annapolis, Maryland may soon be the center for finding solutions to the environmental issues facing the country.

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New think tank poises Maryland as leader in finding environmental solutions

Baltimore’s harbor health leaves room for improvement

Submitted by Amy Pelsinsky on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 12:00am
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First report card for Baltimore's Inner Harbor rates ecological health as poor

New study uncovers how animals in Maryland use underground highway culverts

Submitted by Amy Pelsinsky on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 12:00am
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As traffic rumbles overhead, two eyes glow inside a 3-foot-wide storm drain beneath one of Maryland’s busy highways.

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Why did the raccoon cross under the road? To get the other side, of course

A decline in dead zones: Study shows efforts to heal Chesapeake Bay are working

Submitted by Amy Pelsinsky on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 2:56pm
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Efforts to reduce the flow of fertilizers, animal waste and other pollutants into the Chesapeake Bay appear to be giving a boost to the bay’s health, a new study that analyzed 60 years of water qua

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Efforts to heal the Chesapeake Bay are working, says new study 

Mysterious glow of plankton explained by recent study

Submitted by Amy Pelsinsky on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 3:32pm
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In many areas, when the ocean water is disturbed at night, it sparkles with a spectacular blue light.

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Mysterious glow of plankton explained by recent study