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University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: A Century of Innovation and Impact
January 24, 2025
UMCES will celebrate its centennial year with an event series highlighting legacy and future vision for 2025 and beyond.

Three UMCES students are finalists for 2025 Knauss Policy Fellowship
October 25, 2024
Isabel Butler Viruet, Majeed Alrefaie and Shayna Keller will serve out a paid, year-long fellowship with the U.S. federal government starting next year.

UMCES Chesapeake Biological Lab Receives $1 Million Donation to Endow Professorship
October 22, 2024
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science' Chesapeake Biological Laboratory proudly announces a landmark $1 million donation from longtime supporters Brian Hochheimer and Marjorie Wax.

Report dolphin sightings with Chesapeake DolphinWatch
May 6, 2024
Researchers at UMCES' Chesapeake Biological Laboratory launched the Chesapeake DolphinWatch App in 2017 to allow people who are already enjoying the Chesapeake Bay to report sightings of dolphins, including the time, date, GPS location, number of animals observed, and pictures and video of the animals throughout the bay, creating an unprecedented observation network.

Researchers discover how biomolecules in nature are transformed into complex organic matter
April 30, 2024
UMCES Professor, Michael Gonsior, and an international team of collaborators from Linköping University in Sweden and Helmholtz Zentrum in Germany now understand how biomolecules in nature transform to yield complex organic matter found in rivers and lakes. Their study was published April 24 in Nature.

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