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Cutting mercury inputs to lakes quickly reduces mercury in the fish we eat, say scientists
December 15, 2021
During the study conducted over 15 years, scientists from the U.S. and Canada intentionally added a traceable form of mercury to a small remote research lake and its watershed. They discovered that the new mercury they added quickly built up in fish populations, and then declined almost as quickly once they stopped the additions.

Maryland draws on UMCES expertise on ocean acidification

September 27, 2021
In 2020, the Maryland Department of Environment recruited Dr. Jeremy Testa to be on a small team tasked with developing the State’s action plan for combatting one of the lesser-known impacts of climate change: Coastal and ocean acidification.

Climate change in focus in online community learning series
September 23, 2021
Leading experts on climate change and its impacts will be featured in the Science for Communities webinar series hosted by UMCES' Chesapeake Biological Laboratory this fall.

Lora Harris awarded Elkins Professorship
August 27, 2021
Dr. Lora Harris, an associate professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) Chesapeake Biological Laboratory has been awarded the Wilson H. Elkins Endowed Professorship for 2021-2022 by the University System of Maryland.

Female and young walruses depend on disappearing Arctic sea ice for food sources
August 17, 2021
A new study shows that disappearing sea ice is a significant element of the food web supporting female walruses and their dependent young in the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea. Researchers were able to trace biomarkers that are unique to algae growing within sea ice to connect marine mammals with a food source that is rapidly diminishing in the face of climate change.

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