Press Releases

Novel biomanufacturing process will capture carbon and bolster human health

February 12, 2024
Project to be supported by an award from the National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator.

NOAA award funds project to help alleviate global warming

November 15, 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.

President Peter Goodwin retires after 40 years in science and higher education

September 22, 2023
After a 40-year career in science and higher education culminating in leading Maryland’s university for the environment, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science President Peter Goodwin retires at the end of September.

UMCES-led international research effort to weigh “green ammonia” impact on climate change and environment

September 19, 2023
The Global Nitrogen Innovation Center for Clean Energy and the Environment (NICCEE), spearheaded by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) with key partners in the U.S. (New York University and University of Massachusetts Amherst), Canada (University of Guelph), and the UK (Rothamsted Research), will provide timely and crucial insights associated with the rapidly evolving technological innovation to produce ammonia using renewable energy for clean energy and food production.

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