Steering Out of Crashes
UMCES researchers are part of a new national effort to understand what causes larval die-offs—called crashes—at bivalve hatcheries.
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Hazardous Hitchhikers
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has created conditions for a “super-spreader” event of marine invasive species worldwide.
Highest Score Ever Achieved for UMCES’s Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card
Positive actions raise the grade for the Chesapeake Bay leading to benefits for the environment and local communities
Two UMCES Scientists Honored by American Geophysical Union (AGU)
These honorees have transformed our understanding of the world, impacted our everyday lives, improved our communities and contributed to solutions for a sustainable future.
Statement in response to Executive Order “Providing Meaningful Water Quality Improvements Through Collaboration And Oversight Of Federal Support”
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science will continue to use our research to strengthen Chesapeake Bay collaborations.
Leaping Forward with DolphinWatch
Ten years of the Bay’s greatest participatory science project has revealed how much more there is to learn about dolphins in the Chesapeake.
Celebrating the Legacy of Lauded Estuarine Ecologist Dr. Walter Boynton
Dr. Boynton passed away on September 14, 2026.
New paper outlines how large language models such as ChatGPT can be used to automate harmful algal bloom prediction
The experiment used ChatGPT to automate the generation of deep learning regression and classification models for harmful algal bloom prediction.
Garden Club committee receives Richard Johnson Environmental Education Award
The Appalachian Laboratory of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) recently presented the Conservation Committee of the Mountain Laurel Garden Club (MLGC) with the 2026 Richard A.…
Science and Story
For one UMCES graduate student, studying a species like horseshoe crabs goes hand in hand with telling their story.